IC and PCB sample preparation - Dedicated CC-EAL6 lab for secure item preparation and analysis

Since 2019, the Fraunhofer Institute EMFT operates a hardware sample preparation analysis lab according to common criteria - evaluation assurance level 6. Besides sample preparation and analyses for common market IC and PCB’s, this lab is also dedicated for secure IC and trusted hardware components. Hereby, this lab offers methods for general failure analysis and especially hardware trust verification like counterfeit/tampering detection and patent infringement. In this talk we want to present our state-of-the-art preparation and analysis devices, in addition to exemplary results we obtained so far. This includes a short presentation of our main preparation devices with which we prepare and analyze most common technology nodes down to 7nm. Additionally, exemplary chipscan techniques on these nodes are shortly presented.