The Group The Students Current Alumni The Supervisors The Publications The Resources The Lighter Side		Nathaniel Couture Degrees: MCS, 2003 - 2005 University of New Brunswick, Canada BCS, 1999 - 2003 University of New Brunswick, Canada   Research Topic: Cryptography, Security, FPGAs E-mail: l394e@unb.ca Quote: "fill your boots!" Thesis Research: Self-Expiring Licensing Architecture for Intellectual Property on FPGAs As Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) gain popularity and become more prevalent in consumer products, the desire to have expiring FPGA Intellectual Property(IP) will also rise. This work describes a way to license IP on FPGAs based on techniques derived from software licensing schemes. Current software and hardware licensing techniques are described in detail, including a survey of current research in the fields of FPGA security, secure memory technologies, and cryptography. A licensing architecture for FPGA IP is proposed, and an implementation on a Xilinx Vertex 2 FPGA demonstrates that expiration can be achieved. Future work includes the development of a hardware architecture for consumer products that supports licensable IP cores as well as their delivery. Thesis Supervisor(s): Ken Kent