Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Secure chips with serial numbers
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Application No.: US15444369Application Date: 2017-02-28
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Publication No.: US10522472B2Publication Date: 2019-12-31
- Inventor: Johannes Cornelis Jacobus De Langen , Marcel Nicolaas Jacobus van Kervinck , Vincent Sylvester Kuiper
- Applicant: ASML Netherlands B.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Veldhoven
- Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.
- Current Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Veldhoven
- Agency: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
- Main IPC: H01L23/00
- IPC: H01L23/00 ; H01L23/544 ; H04L29/06 ; G06K7/14 ; G06K19/06 ; H01L25/065 ; H04L9/14 ; H04L9/32 ; G06F21/44 ; G06F21/73 ; G09C5/00

Abstract:
An electronic device comprising a semiconductor chip which comprises a plurality of structures formed in the semiconductor chip, wherein the semiconductor chip is a member of a set of semiconductor chips, the set of semiconductor chips comprises a plurality of subsets of semiconductor chips, and the semiconductor chip is a member of only one of the subsets. The plurality of structures of the semiconductor chip includes a set of common structures which is the same for all of the semiconductor chips of the set, and a set of non-common structures, wherein the non-common structures of the semiconductor chip of the subset is different from a non-common circuit of the semiconductor chips in every other subset. At least a first portion of the non-common structures and a first portion of the common structures form a first non-common circuit, wherein the first non-common circuit of the semiconductor chips of each subset is different from a non-common circuit of the semiconductor chips in every other subset. At least a second portion of the non-common structures is adapted to store or generate a first predetermined value which uniquely identifies the first non-common circuit, wherein the first predetermined value is readable from outside the semiconductor chip by automated reading means.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180068955A1 SECURE CHIPS WITH SERIAL NUMBERS Public/Granted day:2018-03-08
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