Arteris has won funding to expand its hardware design supply chain security assurance work under the Trusted and Assured Microelectronics (TAM) program.

The award directs money toward a specific gap in semiconductor development: verifying that hardware intellectual property moving through the design supply chain has not been tampered with or compromised before it reaches fabrication and deployment.

What is Arteris contributing?

Arteris operates in the interconnect and IP market, supplying network-on-chip (NoC) technology that sits at the center of system-on-chip designs. Because interconnect IP touches nearly every functional block on a chip, it occupies a structurally important position for security assurance. A compromise in that layer can propagate across an entire design.

The new funding expands the company's work on assurance techniques for hardware design supply chains — the chain of third-party IP blocks, tools, and design houses that modern chip development depends on.

Why does supply chain assurance matter for microelectronics?

Modern SoCs assemble components from many sources. Design teams license processor cores, interface IP, memory controllers, and interconnects from multiple vendors, then integrate them through distributed design flows. Each handoff in that chain is a potential insertion point for malicious logic or unauthorized modification.

Detecting such modifications after fabrication is difficult and expensive. Assurance programs therefore concentrate on the design phase, where provenance tracking, structural analysis, and verification tooling can establish that what was fabricated matches what was specified.

What does the TAM program do?

The Trusted and Assured Microelectronics program funds work that addresses exactly this class of risk. TAM supports research and development into:

• Methods for verifying the integrity of microelectronics hardware
• Tools that secure the design supply chain for defense-relevant systems
• Techniques applicable to chips built from third-party and foreign-sourced IP

For suppliers like Arteris, TAM funding provides a route to harden commercial EDA and IP products against supply chain threats while aligning them with US government assurance requirements.

What comes next?

Arteris plans to use the funding to expand the scope of its supply chain security assurance capabilities. For the company, the award signals continued government demand for verifiable integrity in commercial chip-design infrastructure — and positions its interconnect and IP technology within a program portfolio aimed at trusted microelectronics for critical systems.