High-level synthesis-based watermarking using multimodal biometric

Abstract

This chapter discusses hardware security methodologies for securing the transient fault-secured hardware intellectual property (IP) designs using unified multimodal biometric and an encoded dictionary. The explained framework leverages a high-level synthesis (HLS) process to create transient fault-secured hardware IPs. Further, it integrates encoded unified biometric-based hardware security constraints into the hardware design to protect the designs from IP piracy and false IP ownership claim. This ensures the creation of watermarked fault-secured hardware designs, thereby enhancing IP seller’s and end consumer’s safety by mitigating the risk of using pirated/unreliable designs. The discussed watermarking methodologies provide stronger digital evidence for piracy detection and greater resilience against tampering attack. © The Institution of Engineering and Technology and its licensors 2024.