Since their inception in 1994, design patterns have been the subject of many papers. In the reverse-engineering community, several authors have proposed approaches to consider design patterns during reverseand re-engineering. However, it has been recently put forward in the community that it is difficult to compare previous approaches due to the diversity of vocabulary and the lack of a general...

INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................210 I. THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CONTEXT OF REVERSE ENGINEERING..............................................................................212 A. Intellectual Property Law and Reverse Engineering ............212 B. No Coherent Treatment of Reverse Engineering.................215 II. REVERSE ENGINEE...

Fab-less business model in semiconductor industry has led to serious concerns about trustworthy hardware. In untrusted foundries and manufacturing companies, submitted layout may be analyzed and reverse engineered to steal the information of a design or insert malicious Trojans. Understanding the netlist topology is the ultimate goal of the reverse engineering process. In this paper, we propose...