Test and Measurement Advances for Semiconductor Supply Chain Assurance

Semiconductor supply chains are global, complex and vulnerable to interference from adversaries. They are also impossible to re-shore to semiconductor sovereignty can only be achieved through detailed surveillance of the supply chain. In this talk we discuss results of recent academic papers that have applied test equipment to detect hardware trojans or counterfeiting. We will then discuss the signal processing required to detect anomalies in devices. To conclude an overview of the architecture of a security testbench is given to illustrate how test time can be reduced though hardware acceleration.

Doug Carson is a device security solution expert working in Edinburgh on hardware security test solutions for the Keysight Device Security Lab. During his career he has architected telecom measurement, processing and security solutions and contributed to innovation projects for critical infrastructure security. Doug has been involved in device security since 2016 as a co-author of a paper on power side channel analysis that is now the reference in the EMB3D™ framework. He currently works on market development activities for device security in Europe.