Stealing Maggie's Secrets -- On the Challenges of IP Theft Through FPGA Reverse Engineering

arXiv:2312.06195v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Intellectual Property (IP) theft is a cause of major financial and reputational damage, reportedly in the range of hundreds of billions of dollars annually in the U.S. alone. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are particularly exposed to IP theft, because their configuration file contains the IP in a proprietary format that can be mapped to a gate-level netlist with moderate effort. Despite this threat, the scientific understanding of this issue lacks behind reality, …

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