Identifying Synthesis Approaches for IP Piracy of Reversible Circuits

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Samah Mohamed Saeed, Nithin Mahendran, Alwin Zulehner, Robert Wille and Ramesh Karri.

Reversible circuits are vulnerable to intellectual property and integrated circuit piracy. To show these vulnerabilities, a detailed understanding on how to identify the function embedded in a reversible circuit is crucial. To obtain the embedded function, one needs to know the synthesis approach used to generate the reversible circuit in the first place. We present a machine learning based scheme to identify the synthesis approach using telltale signs in the design.