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Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025

Filed:

Jun. 22, 2022
Applicants:

University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated, Gainesville, FL (US);

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Swarup Bhunia, Gainesville, FL (US);

Aritra Dasgupta, Gainesville, FL (US);

Pravin Gaikwad, Gainesville, FL (US);

Md Moshiur Rahman, Gainesville, FL (US);

Aritra Bhattacharyay, Gainesville, FL (US);

Nij Dorairaj, Santa Clara, CA (US);

David Kehlet, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignees:

University of Florida Research Foundation, Incorporated, Gainesville, FL (US);

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06F 9/448 (2018.01); H03K 19/17728 (2020.01); H03K 19/21 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 19/17728 (2013.01); G06F 9/30134 (2013.01); G06F 9/4498 (2018.02); H03K 19/21 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and system are directed to protecting hardware IP, particularly of ASIC designs. Programmability is introduced into an ASIC design to increase the difficulty of formulating ASIC designs as Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) problems. Fine-grain redaction of security-critical information from a design is employed by removing high-entropy logic blocks and subsequently inserting programmable components in place of the redacted portion to hide the actual design intent.


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