ALICE: An Automatic Design Flow for eFPGA Redaction

Chiara Muscari Tomajoli, Luca Collini, Jitendra Bhandari, Abdul Khader Thalakkattu Moosa, Benjamin Tan, Xifan Tang, Pierre Emmanuel Gaillardon, Ramesh Karri, Christian Pilato

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Abstract

Fabricating an integrated circuit is becoming unaffordable for many semiconductor design houses. Outsourcing the fabrication to a third-party foundry requires methods to protect the intellectual property of the hardware designs. Designers can rely on embedded reconfigurable devices to completely hide the real functionality of selected design portions unless the configuration string (bitstream) is provided. However, selecting such portions and creating the corresponding reconfigurable fabrics are still open problems. We propose ALICE, a design flow that addresses the EDA challenges of this problem. ALICE partitions the RTL modules between one or more reconfigurable fabrics and the rest of the circuit, automating the generation of the corresponding redacted design.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 59th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, DAC 2022
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages781-786
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781450391429
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 10 2022
Event59th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, DAC 2022 - San Francisco, United States
Duration: Jul 10 2022Jul 14 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings - Design Automation Conference
ISSN (Print)0738-100X

Conference

Conference59th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, DAC 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco
Period7/10/227/14/22

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Modeling and Simulation

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