thorneko
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This is strictly a question to provoke a discussion and not necessarily generate a solution. (and who knows, if you come up with the solution, you patent it, and retire to a beach of your choosing)
With the ever increasing number of counterfeit components entering into supply chains, is it possible to design/build in a circuit that would "age" or "degrade" based on the time a component is actually powered on? If some quantity could be measured with a relatively simple definitive test, one could then determine the electrical age of the component, thus knowing I am not getting an unused component, but one that may have been stripped off another circuit board and resold.
Obviously components marked with a date code gives us some idea as to the physical age of the part in question.
With the ever increasing number of counterfeit components entering into supply chains, is it possible to design/build in a circuit that would "age" or "degrade" based on the time a component is actually powered on? If some quantity could be measured with a relatively simple definitive test, one could then determine the electrical age of the component, thus knowing I am not getting an unused component, but one that may have been stripped off another circuit board and resold.
Obviously components marked with a date code gives us some idea as to the physical age of the part in question.