This demonstrator, code-name “Tokachi-3A”, was designed as a collaboration with Arm Ltd with the Physical IP designed for the 65nm Low-Power process technology available from TSMC Inc.
Tokachi-3A was taped out in March 2012, packaged and delivered in July 2012 and has supported evaluation of place-and-route strategies for IP watermarking.
The chip includes a soft Watermark Circuit integrated into Cortex – A5 (TM) CPU to showcase the University of Southampton project on IP Watermarking of Embedded Processor Cores.