Cryptographic rights management of FPGA intellectual property cores

ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays - FPGA

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 113-118

  Kean, Tom ^a  

^a Algotronix Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cryptography; FPGA; Intellectual Property; Rights Management

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CRYPTOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; SECURITY OF DATA;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC STANDARD PRODUCT (ASSP) CHIPS;

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS;

EID: 0036385689     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/503062.503065     Document Type: Conference Paper

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10. Algotronix Ltd., "Method of Protecting Intellectual Property Cores on Field Programmable Gate Array", unpublished pending patent application.