January 2018: Component Counterfeiting

1 January 2018 by Phillip Johnston • Last updated 28 September 2019 Happy New Year! Welcome to the January 2018 edition of the Embedded Artistry Newsletter. This is a monthly newsletter of curated and original content to help you build better embedded systems. This newsletter is intended to supplement the website and covers topics not mentioned there. This month we’ll be taking a look at the problem of electronic component counterfeiting and new anti-counterfeiting developments. We’ll cover: The problem of component counterfeitingDetecting counterfeit componentsNew DARPA anti-counterfeiting initiativesUsing blockchains to establish a component “chain of trust”Steps you can take to protect …