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- Patent Title: Secure permanent integrated circuit personalization
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Application No.: US15293090Application Date: 2016-10-13
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Publication No.: US10341108B1Publication Date: 2019-07-02
- Inventor: Michael C. Smayling , David K. Lam , Theodore A. Prescop , Kevin M. Monahan
- Applicant: Multibeam Corporation
- Agency: Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, L.L.P.
- Agent Seth A. Horwitz
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; H04L9/32 ; G06F21/60 ; G06F3/06 ; H04L9/08 ; H04L9/14 ; H04L9/30

Abstract:
Methods, systems and devices for using charged particle beams (CPBs) to write different die-specific, non-volatile, electronically readable data to different dies on a substrate. CPBs can fully write die-specific data within the chip interconnect structure during the device fabrication process, at high resolution and within a small area, allowing one or multiple usefully-sized values to be securely written to service device functions. CPBs can write die-specific data in areas readable or unreadable through a (or any) communications bus. Die-specific data can be used for, e.g.: encryption keys; communications addresses; manufacturing information (including die identification numbers); random number generator improvements; or single, nested, or compartmentalized security codes. Die-specific data and locations for writing die-specific data can be kept in encrypted form when not being written to the substrate to conditionally or permanently prevent any knowledge of said data and locations.
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