A Framework for Maintaining Product Superiority by Designing Hardware That Protects Itself From Reverse Engineering

通过设计保护自身不受逆向工程影响的硬件来保持产品可靠性的框架。马特森布伦特湖这个奖项的研究目标是开发一个框架，用于设计消费产品，保护自己免受逆向工程。完成后，设计师将能够创造出可以由客户和竞争对手处理和检查的产品，而不会披露产品功能的现象，基本上保护设备免受逆向工程的影响。这将为开发人员提供保持其硬件开发工作所带来的竞争优势的能力。 本研究的核心是整合三种使能设计方法：（i）微结构敏感设计，（ii）异构设计，和（iii）嵌入式系统设计。先进的数值和多目标优化方法使得通过操纵众多非直观、非传统的设计变量来搜索上级材料特性和器械几何形状成为可能。实验将被用来验证设计方法，如果成功的话，这项研究的结果将提供一个强大的新方法，产品设计与材料的考虑。这项研究可以从根本上改变一些行业的设计和制造模式。由于材料的微观结构和相关的制造过程将极难进行逆向工程，因此硬件机密可以在新框架下得到保护。这将导致开发更先进的硬件，从而增加发展中实体享有的竞争性技术和经济优势。这为那些难以与低成本海外制造业竞争的公司提供了一种新的设计和制造增值方法。这项研究的结果将被用来作为基础的教育模块的开发，用于工业和学术界，其中包括阅读包，演示文稿，家庭作业和实验说明。这些将通过互联网广泛传播。

A Framework for Maintaining Product Superiority by Designing Hardware that Protects Itself from Reverse EngineeringProposal Number: 0800904Christopher A. MattsonBrent L. AdamsThe research objective of this award is to develop a framework for designing consumer products that protect themselves from reverse engineering. Upon completion, designers will be able to create products that can be handled and examined by customers and competitors without disclosing the phenomena by which the products function, essentially protecting the device from reverse engineering. This will provide developers with the ability to maintain the competitive advantage that results from their hardware development efforts. The core of this research is the integration of three enabling design methodologies: (i) microstructure sensitive design, (ii) heterogeneous design, and (iii) embedded systems design. Advanced numerical and multiobjective optimization methods make possible the search for superior material properties and device geometry through the manipulation of numerous non-intuitive, non-traditional, design variables. Experiments will be used to validate the design approach.If successful, the results of this research will provide a powerful new approach to product design with material considerations. This research can fundamentally change design and manufacturing paradigms in some industries. Because the material microstructure and associated manufacturing processes will be extremely difficult to reverse engineer, hardware secrets can be protected under the new framework. This will lead to the development of more advanced hardware, thus increasing the competitive technological and economical advantages enjoyed by the developing entity. This gives companies that struggle to compete with low cost overseas manufacturing a new value-added approach to design and manufacturing. The results of this research will be used as the basis for the development of educational modules for use in industry and academia which include reading packets, presentations, homework assignments and experiment descriptions. These will be distributed widely via the internet.