Trustworthy electronics: tech-for-trust (T4T)

Motivation
A reliable supply with electronic components is gaining more and more strategic relevance for the industrial site Germany.
The increasing shift of IC manufacturing to regions outside Europe bears a higher risk of malicious/spy functions in components delivered by contract manufacturers (Foundries) as well as IP theft (intellectual property) with respect to the used circuit designs.
The project »Trustworthy electronics: tech-for-Trust (T4T)« aims at providing tools for accessing safe supply chains and trustworthy electronics to domestic industry.

Goals
Within the project, solutions are being developed that help to realize a modern system integration in Germany usable on an industrial scale.
On the one hand, needed manufacturing processes will be developed and optimized. On the other hand, design methods will be investigated that will enable small and medium enterprises to design complex electronic systems. The required interfaces, tools and processes will be tests with suitable demonstrators.
Particular attention is being paid to the aspect of trustworthiness: design and manufacturing processes will be adjusted in a way that intellectual property remains protected and forgery-proof when it comes to inter-company cooperation.

The main goals of the project lies in the realization of an reliable supply chain through split manufacturing. In contrast to existing concepts, a new approach will be developed that will unite the split- manufactured silicon components in mounting and connection technology. This will be done on wafer to wafer basis as well as in the form of chiplets. For this, relevant manufacturing technologies and a holistic design process will be developed. Furthermore, the possibility to integrate quantum secure cryptographic keys into a wafer compound during the wafer manufacturing will be realized.