Abstract: A system for creating protected functional descriptions of integrated circuits provides encrypted gate delay information preventing deduction of gate function from gate delay but allowing simulation of the integrated circuit with accurate propagation delay calculation. Individual gate delay values may be modified so that they obscure actual gate delays but so that the modified individual gate delays total to equal the actual cumulative gate delay along a given data propagation path.

Abstract: A system for creating protected functional descriptions of integrated circuits provides encrypted gate delay information preventing deduction of gate function from gate delay but allowing simulation of the integrated circuit with accurate propagation delay calculation. Individual gate delay values may be modified so that they obscure actual gate delays but total along a data propagation path to equal the actual cumulative gate delay along that data propagation path.

Abstract: A system for creating protected functional descriptions of integrated circuits provides an encrypted functional description that allows the integrated circuit to be simulated with respect to producing outputs for given sets of inputs without identification of the constituent components of the integrated circuit such as the logical gates making up the integrated circuit. The encrypted functional description may include encrypted truth-tables describing the generic gates of the integrated circuit, the encrypted truth-tables securing the function of each logical gate by including multiple redundant table entries mapped to alias values of Boolean logical states and erroneous table entries.

Abstract: A system for creating protected functional descriptions of integrated circuits provides an encrypted functional description that allows the integrated circuit to be simulated with respect to producing outputs for given sets of inputs without identification of the constituent components of the integrated circuit such as the logical gates making up the integrated circuit. The encrypted functional description may include encrypted truth-tables describing the generic gates of the integrated circuit, the encrypted truth-tables securing the function of each logical gate by including multiple redundant table entries mapped to alias values of Boolean logical states and erroneous table entries.