Battelle Barricade: A Nondestructive Electronic Component Authentication and Counterfeit Detection Technology

A technology to nondestructively classify electronic components as authentic or counterfeit has been developed. The technology does not require integrated circuit design modifications, physical alterations to existing inventory, or any changes to electronic component manufacturing processes to perform the classification process. The technology uses a method that creates feature vectors for each class of devices from their power consumption waveforms. Developed algorithms process the waveforms into lower dimensionality feature vectors. The feature vectors are input to the Battelle Barricade classifier algorithm that performs the electronic component classification. The technology is expected to perform component authentication and counterfeit detection at a very low cost, with practical throughput rates (seconds per part) and achieve a high classification accuracy (better than 95%). Because Barricade is nondestructive, 100% of components in any given inventory can be authenticated and tested for counterfeits.