6.2 Features of Providing Intellectual Property Rights …
515
Reverse Engineering
Functional tests
Control
Standard
Literary review
Low
High
High
Relative costs
Relative effect
Fig. 6.6 Relationship between costs and probability of detection of copyright violation factors for
the main analysis methods
it. Of course, re-engineering processes vary between different products and depend
on the technologies used for their production.
The main tasks of standard reverse engineering used to verify compliance with or
violation of the intellectual property rights in the field of microelectronic products
are usually solved in three directions.
– The recovery from top to bottom and back aimed at restoring the electrical circuit
of the examined microcircuits to the minimum level of base transistors, resistors,
capacitances, and inductances and their interconnections to ultimately ascend
from this bottom level to the top (operation algorithms, logic circuits, timing functioning diagrams) and compare how this microcircuit specifically performs the
functions determined by the customer in the original specification for the functions
and how much these functions of this microcircuit produced by another manufacturer (competitor) are actually different from the functions of the microcircuit
designed by the lawful owner of intellectual property used in this microcircuit.
– Analysis of the active semiconductor structure, architecture and performed logic
functions, features of its design, and technologies used to produce this specific
microcircuit, including its design features and production technologies.
– Systemic analysis including identification of the methods of function of these
microcircuits in the system, their interaction with each other, and external hardware and software means. This analysis is usually performed using specialized
hardware and software (special test sequences, hardware analyzers, spectrum
analyzers, etc.).
Previously, infringements of copyrights (patents) in the field of commercial electronics, computing devices, and wireless mobile communication were identified
based on the materials of literary reviews, study of special standards, and specially
515
Reverse Engineering
Functional tests
Control
Standard
Literary review
Low
High
High
Relative costs
Relative effect
Fig. 6.6 Relationship between costs and probability of detection of copyright violation factors for
the main analysis methods
it. Of course, re-engineering processes vary between different products and depend
on the technologies used for their production.
The main tasks of standard reverse engineering used to verify compliance with or
violation of the intellectual property rights in the field of microelectronic products
are usually solved in three directions.
– The recovery from top to bottom and back aimed at restoring the electrical circuit
of the examined microcircuits to the minimum level of base transistors, resistors,
capacitances, and inductances and their interconnections to ultimately ascend
from this bottom level to the top (operation algorithms, logic circuits, timing functioning diagrams) and compare how this microcircuit specifically performs the
functions determined by the customer in the original specification for the functions
and how much these functions of this microcircuit produced by another manufacturer (competitor) are actually different from the functions of the microcircuit
designed by the lawful owner of intellectual property used in this microcircuit.
– Analysis of the active semiconductor structure, architecture and performed logic
functions, features of its design, and technologies used to produce this specific
microcircuit, including its design features and production technologies.
– Systemic analysis including identification of the methods of function of these
microcircuits in the system, their interaction with each other, and external hardware and software means. This analysis is usually performed using specialized
hardware and software (special test sequences, hardware analyzers, spectrum
analyzers, etc.).
Previously, infringements of copyrights (patents) in the field of commercial electronics, computing devices, and wireless mobile communication were identified
based on the materials of literary reviews, study of special standards, and specially