Trusted Silicon Stratus for Microelectrontics Assurance

ABSTRACT: Nimbis Services, Inc. Trusted Silicon Stratus Microelectronics Assurance (TSSMA) response to Topic AF161-150: Cloud Services for Trustworthy Microelectronics Assurance will provide a collaborative ecosystem to address the challenge of trustworthy microelectronics in the commercial and DoD supply chain.This will be accomplished through identification, hosting, optimization, and DoD community deployment of current and emerging trustworthy tools and techniques in a trusted cloud based collaborative multi-tenancy eco-system.The objective is to develop a process for hardware assurance in the design and integrity of microelectronics across the life cycle that can be accessed by users.The Nimbis proposed effort will meet this objective by extending its Trusted Silicon Stratus (TSS) Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) eco-system, developed under Air Force Rapid Innovation Funding.While continuing to address Trust in Design (TiD), the TSS will be extended beyond the design phase to incorporate tools and techniques developed for the fabrication, packaging, acquisition, and sustainment phase and establish a process to help ensure the design and integrity of microelectronics across the entire life cycle.The primary Phase I emphasis is on the identification and study of trustworthy microelectronics processes, techniques, tools, and technology that may be hosted and integrated within the TSS eco-system.; BENEFIT: TSSMA will greatly enhance trustworthy microelectronics implementation success and DoD community deployment by providing trustworthy design-to-release and manufacturing-to-operational life-cycle management of chip designs.Nimbis Services is uniquely positioned to develop and commercialize the TSSMA for the government, DoD contractor, manufacturing and commercial industry with a specific early focus on the defense primes and suppliers.In addition, TSSMA strengthens our commercial cloud based suite of brokerage and ecommerce web services that connect users with third-party High Performance Computing (HPC) resources, commercial engineering, manufacturing, industrial, and application software, and domain specific expertise in a secure environment.