Research Article

Hardware Obfuscation Based Watermarking Technique for IPR Ownership Identification

Table 1

Comparative analysis of area overhead and probability of coincidence (PC).

Benchmark circuitBaseline[58][59]Watermark 1 K8:4D8:3C8Watermark 16 K64:4D64:3C64
Area (μm2)Area (μm2)% overheadArea (μm2)% overheadArea (μm2)% overheadArea (μm2)% overhead

Ethernet87.46295.7419.46688.5111.287.9510.5688.6751.39
dft229.643245.2586.8233.9831.89230.1340.214230.8560.53
Md5Core210.335220.8815.014213.2371.38210.8270.234211.5480.58
fft810.7811.1072.8711.3885.4711.229412.01111.23
Eliptic wave filter222.756237.9036.8225.9851.45225.2480.221223.9690.54
JPEG: inverse discrete cosine transform189.869192.0521.15191.4820.85190.4230.292191.0820.64
P c = 9.56e − 18P c = 3.72e − 53P c = 9.09e − 13P c = 4.68e − 97