Metrology is the backbone of semiconductor manufacturing, ensuring accurate measurements to monitor, predict, and control quality. Yet, metrology data must be protected as it contains sensitive information critical to the design, production, and performance of semiconductor devices. Ensuring its integrity and security is essential to safeguarding intellectual property (IP) and maintaining trust across the supply chain. Semiconductor companies that specialize in the development and manufacturing of discrete logic and MOSFET components need a way to communicate product specifications, manufacturing and integration requirements in a format that can be used in design automation and verification solutions with detailed provenance of Bill of Materials (BOM) elements. Often, component specifications and design metrology is protected IP, only available to licensees. Within this ecosystem, different stakeholders exist.
Manufacturing and quality assurance teams need to understand required manufacturing parameters to meet quality, reliability, cost and yield objectives.
Regulatory bodies are concerned with whether the product complies with industry standards and laws.
Customers care that the finished product meets or exceeds operational and reliability expectations.
PCN, through its winning of NIST Grand Challenge 7: Metrology to Enhance Security and Provenance of Microelectronic-based Components and Products is focused on all these stakeholders to ensure authenticity of the products they are designing, manufacturing or purchasing, and confidence that no bad actors have infiltrated the supply chain for malicious purposes. The ability to securely share and verify data across the supply chain is essential to fostering collaboration, innovation, and trust.
On January 17, we hosted a workshop in partnership with the Hillsboro Economic Business Development at Hillsboro Hidden Creek Community Center to address these vital issues.
Key highlights included:
The relaunch of the Electronic Data Sheet Work Group with a new Supply Chain track led by PCN, focusing on using distributed ledger technologies to protect intellectual property and enhance supply chain security, while developing recommendations and best practices for publication and consumption of the data by each stakeholder.
Innovative use cases showcasing secure data publishing, component searching, and procurement solutions for improved transparency and trust.
A heartfelt thank you to Cadence and Intel for your invaluable contributions and thought leadership during the event. Your insights are helping shape the future of secure data sharing and resilient semiconductor supply chains.
This is just the beginning—together, we can drive the innovation needed to protect the microelectronics industry and, ultimately, national security.
PCN will host another similar session in Albany, NY in March (details to follow). If you or your company would like to be invited to the session or to participate in the Electronic Datasheet Work Group, reach out to us at info@pcnfederal.com.
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