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  Securing FPGA Designs in Operation and Distribution -- A Survey

  S. Drimer

 
From the early 2000s, SRAM FPGAs have become larger, more complex, and they are used in ever more applications. Designs made for them, therefore, reflect significant investment by their creators. Additionally, since designing for today's FPGAs require specialization, companies look to "core vendors" in order to purchase ready-made functions for incorporation into their designs.
In this talk, based on a survey of the SRAM FPGA design security field, I will discuss the "core distribution" problem and some proposed solutions. Special attention will be given to how we can achieve a protection scheme for multiple cores from multiple sources in a single FPGA design in order to enable a better distribution model that we have today.