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

通过设计可保护自身免受反向工程攻击的硬件来保持产品优势的框架建议编号：0800904 Christopher A.Mattson Brent L.Adams该奖项的研究目标是开发一种设计可保护自身免受反向工程攻击的消费类产品的框架。完成后，设计师将能够创造出可由客户和竞争对手操作和检查的产品，而不会披露产品的功能现象，本质上保护设备免受反向工程的影响。这将为开发人员提供保持其硬件开发工作所产生的竞争优势的能力。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)异构性设计，(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处理大量非直观、非传统的设计变量来寻找更好的材料特性和器件几何形状成为可能。实验将被用来验证设计方法。如果成功，本研究结果将为产品设计提供一种强有力的新方法，并考虑物质因素。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，因此在新的框架下可以保护硬件机密。这将导致更先进的硬件的发展，从而增加开发实体享有的竞争技术和经济优势。这为那些难以与低成本海外制造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作开发用于工业和学术界的教育模块的基础，这些模块包括阅读资料包、演示文稿、家庭作业和实验描述。这些资料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.