This book presents advanced forensic detective control and obfuscation techniques for securing hardware IP cores by exploring beyond conventional technologies. The theme is important to researchers in various areas of specialization, because it encompasses the overlapping topics of EDA-CAD, hardware design security, VLSI design, IP core protection, optimization using evolutionary computing, system-on-chip design and finally application specific processor/hardware accelerator design for consumer electronics applications.

• Chapter 1: Introduction to hardware (IP) security: forensic detective control and obfuscation of digital signal processing (DSP) cores
• Chapter 2: Forensic detective control using hardware steganography for IP core protection
• Chapter 3: Forensic detective control using a digital signature-based watermark for IP core protection
• Chapter 4: Protection of fault-secured IP cores using digital signature-based watermarks
• Chapter 5: Multi-level watermark for IP protection
• Chapter 6: Protecting the rights of an IP buyer using cryptosystem-based multivariable fingerprinting
• Chapter 7: Multi-phase obfuscation for fault-secured DSP circuits
• Chapter 8: Hologram-based structural obfuscation for DSP cores
• Chapter 9: Security of functionally obfuscated DSP cores