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Recommended Practice for Encryption and [Use Rights] Management of Electronic Design Intellectual Property (IP)

Meeting Schedule

July 2009 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday       01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 WG Meeting 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 WG Meeting 28 29 30 31

August 2009 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday             01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 WG Meeting 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 WG Meeting 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

Documents and Work areas

• The P1735 PAR (Program Authorization Request) - approved March 28, 2008
• The P1735 Policies and Procedures - approved by P1735 2 April 2008
• The Private Working Group Area - TWiki login required (contact WG officers for access)
• Public Documents - Meeting minutes, E-mail archives, etc
• Glossary - Definition of terminology used in P1735 writings

Working Group Information

Officers

Steven J. Dovich - (Chair)
Gary Delp - (Vice-chair)

Need for the Project

Working groups currently incorporating IP Encryption technologies use different descriptive language which makes shared implementation technology more difficult to produce, and the standards more difficult to interpret. Users of those standards also want further guidance on how to use the IP Encryption technologies for interoperability.

Scope of Proposed Standard

This standard specifies embeddable and encapsulating markup syntaxes for design IP encryption and rights management, together with recommendations for integration with design specification formats described in other standards. It also recommends use models for interoperable tool and hardware flows, which will include selecting encryption and encoding algorithms and encryption key management. The recommendation includes a description of the trust model assumed in the recommended use models. This standard does not specifically include any consideration of digitally encoded entertainment media. In the context of this document, the term IP will be used to mean Electronic Design Intellectual Property data.

Electronic Design Intellectual Property is a term used in the electronic design community. It refers to a reusable collection of design specifications which represent the behavior, properties, and/or representation of the design in various media. Examples of these collections include, but are not limited to:

• A unit of electronic system design
• A design verification and analysis scheme (e.g., test bench)
• A netlist indicating elements and the interconnection thereof to implement a function
• A set of fabrication instructions
• A physical layout design or chip layout
• A design intent specification

The term is partially derived from the common practice for the collection to be considered the intellectual property of one party. Hardware and software descriptions are encompassed by this term.

Purpose of Proposed Standard

The intent of this document is to enable design flows that provide interoperability between IP sources, tools, integrators, and users of the IP. There is currently no defined, independent standard for describing IP encryption markup for design information formats. Each design format which incorporates IP encryption describes their markup differently leading to confusing interpretation. Users of those standards also lack a recommended practice for inter-operable use of IP encryption.

This document provides guidelines and recommended practice for use of IP protection markup syntax and key management to enable interoperable tool flows with IP and tools from a wide array of suppliers. It includes algorithm selection for encryption and encoding. This document specifies a generic set of embeddable markup syntax suitable for IP protection and rights management of arbitrary text files. These files represent potential inputs and outputs of EDA tools that would otherwise expose IP. The generic syntax of these directives may be suitably modified for a particular file format if there are syntactic conflicts and variations may be described in recommended practices.

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• P1735_iPAR_20080109.doc: P1735 Program Authorization Request

• p1735_wg_pps_1.doc: P1735 Policies and Procedures