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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2024
Nxp B.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Nicolas Harmen Lehment, Munich, DE;
Wilhelmus Petrus Adrianus Johannus Michiels, Reusel, NL;
NXP B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
In accordance with a first aspect of the present disclosure, a hardware accelerator is provided, comprising: an execution unit configured to execute at least one artificial intelligence (AI) model using one or more resources of the hardware accelerator; a watermark verification unit configured to verify whether a predefined watermark is present in the AI model and to output a verification result indicative of the presence or absence of said watermark; a resource management unit configured to enable said resources if the verification result indicates that the watermark is present. Further aspects of the present disclosure relate to a corresponding method of operating a hardware accelerator, and to a computer program for carrying out said method.