In-Situ Thickness Measurement of Die Silicon Using Voltage Imaging for Hardware Assurance

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Autores principales: Dizon-Paradis, Olivia P., Varshney, Nitin, Rahman, M Tanjidur, Strizich, Michael, Shen, Haoting, Asadizanjani, Navid
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Publicado: 2023
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author Dizon-Paradis, Olivia P.
Varshney, Nitin
Rahman, M Tanjidur
Strizich, Michael
Shen, Haoting
Asadizanjani, Navid
author_facet Dizon-Paradis, Olivia P.
Varshney, Nitin
Rahman, M Tanjidur
Strizich, Michael
Shen, Haoting
Asadizanjani, Navid
contents Hardware assurance of electronics is a challenging task and is of great interest to the government and the electronics industry. Physical inspection-based methods such as reverse engineering (RE) and Trojan scanning (TS) play an important role in hardware assurance. Therefore, there is a growing demand for automation in RE and TS. Many state-of-the-art physical inspection methods incorporate an iterative imaging and delayering workflow. In practice, uniform delayering can be challenging if the thickness of the initial layer of material is non-uniform. Moreover, this non-uniformity can reoccur at any stage during delayering and must be corrected. Therefore, it is critical to evaluate the thickness of the layers to be removed in a real-time fashion. Our proposed method uses electron beam voltage imaging, image processing, and Monte Carlo simulation to measure the thickness of remaining silicon to guide a uniform delayering process
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spellingShingle In-Situ Thickness Measurement of Die Silicon Using Voltage Imaging for Hardware Assurance
Dizon-Paradis, Olivia P.
Varshney, Nitin
Rahman, M Tanjidur
Strizich, Michael
Shen, Haoting
Asadizanjani, Navid
Image and Video Processing
Hardware assurance of electronics is a challenging task and is of great interest to the government and the electronics industry. Physical inspection-based methods such as reverse engineering (RE) and Trojan scanning (TS) play an important role in hardware assurance. Therefore, there is a growing demand for automation in RE and TS. Many state-of-the-art physical inspection methods incorporate an iterative imaging and delayering workflow. In practice, uniform delayering can be challenging if the thickness of the initial layer of material is non-uniform. Moreover, this non-uniformity can reoccur at any stage during delayering and must be corrected. Therefore, it is critical to evaluate the thickness of the layers to be removed in a real-time fashion. Our proposed method uses electron beam voltage imaging, image processing, and Monte Carlo simulation to measure the thickness of remaining silicon to guide a uniform delayering process
title In-Situ Thickness Measurement of Die Silicon Using Voltage Imaging for Hardware Assurance
topic Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.13118