Hardware designs for security in ultra-low-power IoT systems: An overview and survey

K Yang, D Blaauw, D Sylvester - IEEE Micro, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The development of ultra-low-power (ULP) electronic devices has opened up opportunities
for disruptive systems like the Internet of Things (IoT). The main concern is the security and …

A 4-fJ/b delay-hardened physically unclonable function circuit with selective bit destabilization in 14-nm trigate CMOS

S Satpathy, SK Mathew, V Suresh… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes a full-entropy 128-b key generation platform based on a 1024-b hybrid
physically unclonable function (PUF) array, fabricated in 14-nm trigate high-k/metal-gate …

An all-digital unified physically unclonable function and true random number generator featuring self-calibrating hierarchical Von Neumann extraction in 14-nm tri-gate …

SK Satpathy, SK Mathew, R Kumar… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes a unified static/dynamic entropy generator based on a 512-b common
entropy source (ES) array fabricated in 14-nm tri-gate CMOS with reconfigurable and …

8.3 A 553F2 2-transistor amplifier-based Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) with 1.67% native instability

K Yang, Q Dong, D Blaauw… - 2017 IEEE International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents a PUF cell based on a simple sub-threshold 2-transistor (2T) amplifier
implemented in 180nm CMOS featuring:(1) a small 553F2 PUF cell, integrated in an array …

Fully synthesizable PUF featuring hysteresis and temperature compensation for 3.2% native BER and 1.02 fJ/b in 40 nm

S Taneja, AB Alvarez, M Alioto - IEEE Journal of Solid-State …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a physically unclonable function (PUF) that can be designed with an
automated digital design flow with a standard-cell approach. Compared to conventional …

8.7 Physically unclonable function for secure key generation with a key error rate of 2E-38 in 45nm smart-card chips

B Karpinskyy, Y Lee, Y Choi, Y Kim… - … Solid-State Circuits …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Physically unclonable function (PUF) circuits are for generating unique secure keys or chip
IDs based on intrinsic properties of each chip itself [1-2]. PUFs are a step forward to improve …

A physically unclonable function using soft oxide breakdown featuring 0% native BER and 51.8 fJ/bit in 40-nm CMOS

KH Chuang, E Bury, R Degraeve… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a physically unclonable function (PUF) based on the randomness of soft
gate oxide breakdown (BD) locations in MOSFETs, namely, soft-BD PUF. The proposed PUF …

Ultra-compact and robust physically unclonable function based on voltage-compensated proportional-to-absolute-temperature voltage generators

J Li, M Seok - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a technique for designing an ultra-compact and robust physically
unclonable function for security-oriented applications. The circuits are based on pairs of …

CMOS image sensor based physical unclonable function for coherent sensor-level authentication

Y Cao, L Zhang, SS Zalivaka… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the applications of biometric authentication and video surveillance, the image sensor is
expected to provide certain degree of trust and resiliency. This paper presents a new low …

Static physically unclonable functions for secure chip identification with 1.9–5.8% native bit instability at 0.6–1 V and 15 fJ/bit in 65 nm

AB Alvarez, W Zhao, M Alioto - IEEE Journal of Solid-State …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel class of mono-stable static physically unclonable functions (PUFs) for secure key
generation and chip identification is proposed. The fundamental concept is demonstrated …