SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- Infrastructure for Nondestructive, Real-Time Fingerprinting of Integrated Circuits
- Notice Date
- 12/21/2009
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 335999
— All Other Miscellaneous Electrical Equipment and Component Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Energy, Sandia Corp. (DOE Contractor), Sandia National Laboratories, PO Box 5800, MS: 0115, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87185
- ZIP Code
- 87185
- Solicitation Number
- 09_333
- Archive Date
- 2/6/2010
- Point of Contact
- Jack Euske, Phone: (925) 294-2646
- E-Mail Address
-
jeuske@sandia.gov
(jeuske@sandia.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Sandia National Laboratories, the lead research and development laboratory for the Department of Energy's physical security needs, is seeking one or more business partners in the area of integrated circuits technology. Sandia is seeking to commercially license the technology described in this posting and to engage in Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADA) to further develop the technology. Commercial licensees will have the opportunity to license the intellectual property for reasonable compensation. It is expected that any licensees will promptly incorporate the technology into a commercial product. This technique forms the basis for a method of deterring the insertion of counterfeit parts and/or hard-to-detect subversions of ICs by enabling low cost means of identifying individual ICs at various points in the life cycle. We further envision that IC manufacturers will be economically attracted to implement this means in order to minimize loss of profit due to hard-to-detect insertion of counterfeit parts into the supply chain. The ability to identify a specific integrated circuit at various times in the life cycle would form a deterrent against wholesale substitution of the component with a counterfeit and/or subverted part, due to the improved forensic ability to trace discovered subversions to their source and the perpetrator's aversion to discovery and attribution. The goal for the development of Nondestructive, Real-Time Fingerprinting of Integrated Circuits is to deploy more secure information processing systems by advancing the state of the art for authentication of microelectronics components to protect against counterfeit components and component subversion by substitution. To achieve authentication of components, the leverage of Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) technology is being sought out. PUFs are derived from random physical characteristics of the system from which they are sourced, which makes a PUF output difficult to predict from one device to another. The random PUF output can subsequently be used to aid authentication using cryptographic challenge-response techniques. These techniques appear to be so promising for component authentication that other applications such as validation of hardware and software configurations will likely benefit from use of similar PUF technology and associated infrastructure. These techniques are ready to be refined and integrated into a "JTAG-accessible" function block that can be universally inserted into almost any digital and/or mixed signal IC using industry standard interfaces and requiring no additional I/O pads or pins. Potential partners must provide information describing their ability to research, design, develop, manufacture, distribute, market, and service fully functional diagnostics systems. To express interest in this opportunity, please respond by mail to Jack Euske by January 22, 2010 at: Sandia National Laboratories, MS 9290, P.O. Box 969, 7011 East Avenue, Livermore, CA 94551, E-mail: jeuske@sandia.gov, Phone: (925) 294-2646. Please indicate the date and title of the FBO notice. Include company and contact information, as well as a description of how your company meets Sandia's criteria and could best contribute to the formation of a CRADA partnership or license and the subsequent commercialization of this technology. Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company, for the United States Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration under Contract DE-AC04-94AL85000.
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