Fingerprint biometric for securing hardware accelerators

Abstract

The chapter describes a promising approach for securing hardware accelerators against intellectual property (IP) piracy and fraud IP ownership threat using biometric fingerprinting. Securing a hardware IP using biometric fingerprint is a paradigm shift from the contemporary approaches. This chapter lucidly explains the biometric-fingerprint-based process using real-life digital signal processing (DSP)/image processing application. The chapter is organized as follows: Section 6.1 discusses about the introduction of the chapter; Section 6.2 highlights the salient features of this chapter; Section 6.3 presents discussion on some contemporary approaches; Section 6.4 explains the threat model where biometric-fingerprint-based security approach is useful; Section 6.5 provides a high-level perspective of biometric fingerprint approach for securing hardware accelerators; Section 6.6 presents the details of biometric-fingerprinting-based IP protection approach; Section 6.7 presents analysis on case studies; Section 6.8 discusses the advantages of this approach and Section 6.9 concludes the chapter. © The Institution of Engineering and Technology 2021.