Selection of SRAM Cells to improve Reliable PUF implementation using Cell Mismatch Metric

Alheyasat, A.; Torrens, Gabriel; Bota, S.A.; Alorda, B.

doi:10.1109/dcis51330.2020.9268669

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“…In literature [2], [28], [29], error-correction techniques were implemented for PUF post-processing to revert PUF data, which intensified the PUF reproducibility with external storage. A trimming method implemented by data remanence-based technique was proposed in [30]. In this approach, the strongest "1" and strongest "0" cells in a large-scale SRAM array can be identified in 2 times of power-ups by writing "1" or "0" to the entire array and recording the bit flip position after a short break in power.…”

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A Design of 2-Stage Voltage Ramp-Up SRAM Physical Unclonable Function

Song,

Liu,

Zhou

et al. 2024

Chinese J. Elect.

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Silicon physical unclonable function (PUF) implemented by static random access memory (SRAM) exists inherent demerit of unstable cells due to noise of environment and circuits, which significantly restricts its reproducibility. In this paper, a 16T SRAM cell with reset-delay circuit and a 2-stage voltage ramp up is fabricated and reported. Compared to conventional SRAM structure, each PUF cell adds a pair of pull-up PMOS (P-channel metal oxide semiconductor) and pull-down NMOS (N-channel metal oxide semiconductor) controlled by reset and delayedreset signals respectively, resulting in two positive feedback stages with different amplification coefficients when the voltage is ramped up. PUF array consists of 4064 cells, 322 dummy cells and a group of 8 series-connected inverters with an area of 304 μm × 650 μm to match the digital post-processing module. PUF test chip was fabricated in HH-Grace 110 nm platform with total area 1140 × 1140 μm 2 . The average HDintra (intra-chip Hamming distance, also bit error rate, BER) and HDinter (inter-chip Hamming distance) values of the 50 PUF chips in SOP16 package measured at normal point (1.5 V/25 ℃) were 1.92% and 49.85%, respectively.

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