Abstract: An apparatus, method, and system assess the trustworthiness of a design representation while maintaining its confidentiality and thwarting attempts at unauthorized access, misappropriation, and reverse engineering of confidential proprietary aspects of the design representation and/or its bit stream. A utility/tool is provided for trust assessment and verification of designs and/or bit streams. The utility/tool may be instantiated on a semiconductor device or implemented as a utility executable on a mobile computing device or other information processing system, apparatus, or network.

Abstract: An apparatus, method, and system assess the trustworthiness of a design representation while maintaining its confidentiality and thwarting attempts at unauthorized access, misappropriation, and reverse engineering of confidential proprietary aspects of the design representation and/or its bit stream. A utility/tool is provided for trust assessment and verification of designs and/or bit streams. The utility/tool may be instantiated on a semiconductor device or implemented as a utility executable on a mobile computing device or other information processing system, apparatus, or network.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and system are disclosed which may be used for assessing the trustworthiness of a particular proprietary microelectronics device design representation in a manner that will maintain its confidentiality and, among other things, thwart attempts at unauthorized access, misappropriation and reverse engineering of the confidential proprietary aspects contained in the design representation and/or its bit stream design implementation format. The disclosed method includes performing a process for assessing/verifying a particular microelectronics device design representation and then providing some indication of the trustworthiness of that representation. An example utility/tool which implements the disclosed method is described that is particularly useful for trust assessment and verification of FPGA designs.

Abstract: An apparatus, method and system are disclosed which may be used for assessing the trustworthiness of a particular proprietary microelectronics device design representation in a manner that will maintain its confidentiality and, among other things, thwart attempts at unauthorized access, misappropriation and reverse engineering of the confidential proprietary aspects contained in the design representation and/or its bit stream design implementation format. The disclosed method includes performing a process for assessing/verifying a particular microelectronics device design representation and then providing some indication of the trustworthiness of that representation. An example utility/tool which implements the disclosed method is described that is particularly useful for trust assessment and verification of FPGA designs.

Abstract: A graphite reference electrode for use in the cathodic protection of steel embedded in concrete has been produced with a stable catalyzed structure that when equilibrated with air or oxygen and an electrolyte reaches a reproducible and reversible redox potential. This stable device is produced by exposure to hydrogen peroxide, impregnating with a metal oxide followed by a coating treatment. The embedded catalyzed graphite reference electrodes can be used in impressed cathodic protection systems or monitoring the corrosion condition of embedded steel to provide an early warning of impending damage.