RF Supply Chain Tracking via Multi-Variate ID Assignment

Abstract

The integrated circuit (IC) design industry has adopted a globalized design and manufacturing flow where multiple teams contribute to the design of one IC, which gets fabricated in an offsite facility, and possibly tested in another. This paper describes methods for assigning and tracking unique IDs for RF ICs without resorting to additional circuitry. The proposed methodology utilizes performance and other parametric measurements undersupply modulation and assigns IDs in a multi-variate manner while taking repeatability and reproducibility errors in measurements into account.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 29, 2021
Accession Number
AD1136333

Entities

People

  • Jennifer Kitchen
  • Rick Welker
  • Sule Ozev

Organizations

  • Arizona State University

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Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Authentication
  • Circuits
  • Counterfeit Parts
  • Databases
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Electronic Components
  • Gaussian Distributions
  • Histograms
  • Identification
  • Integrated Circuits
  • Intellectual Property
  • Manufacturing
  • Measurement
  • Semiconductor Devices
  • Semiconductors
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Supply Chain
  • Test Facilities
  • Test Sets

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Electronics Engineering
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.