TY - JOUR
T1 - ProHys PUF
T2 - A Proteresis - Hysteresis switch based Physical Unclonable Function
AU - Khan, Salma
AU - Azeemuddin, Syed
AU - Sohel, Mohammed Arifuddin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2023/3
Y1 - 2023/3
N2 - With the Integrated Circuits becoming pervasive in all key industries and applications, PUF's has gained immense popularity for securing the IC's by providing unique identification code to each chip. Designing a highly efficient PUF with optimal values of uniqueness and reliability is a significant challenge. Uniqueness depends on process variations during chip fabrication, and reliability depends on the chip's ability to resist changes to supply voltage and temperature variations. Multiple PUF designs that employ reliability enhancement circuits and security algorithms achieve these design characteristics. Nonetheless, these techniques are design overheads. This paper presents a novel Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) based on the ProHys switch. It deals with hysteresis and proteresis mode of operation, which are complementary to each other. The Prohys PUF befittingly satisfies both uniqueness and reliability criteria, without any additional circuitry or security algorithms. It is the first attempt to design a PUF based on the ProHys switch to the best of our knowledge. The proposed ProHys PUF is designed in TSMC 180 nm CMOS technology, generating an inter-chip variation of 49.85% with 99.7% uniqueness. The minimum reliability of the circuit is 96.9% for a temperature range of -40 °C to 100 °C at a supply voltage range of 1.7V–1.9V.
AB - With the Integrated Circuits becoming pervasive in all key industries and applications, PUF's has gained immense popularity for securing the IC's by providing unique identification code to each chip. Designing a highly efficient PUF with optimal values of uniqueness and reliability is a significant challenge. Uniqueness depends on process variations during chip fabrication, and reliability depends on the chip's ability to resist changes to supply voltage and temperature variations. Multiple PUF designs that employ reliability enhancement circuits and security algorithms achieve these design characteristics. Nonetheless, these techniques are design overheads. This paper presents a novel Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) based on the ProHys switch. It deals with hysteresis and proteresis mode of operation, which are complementary to each other. The Prohys PUF befittingly satisfies both uniqueness and reliability criteria, without any additional circuitry or security algorithms. It is the first attempt to design a PUF based on the ProHys switch to the best of our knowledge. The proposed ProHys PUF is designed in TSMC 180 nm CMOS technology, generating an inter-chip variation of 49.85% with 99.7% uniqueness. The minimum reliability of the circuit is 96.9% for a temperature range of -40 °C to 100 °C at a supply voltage range of 1.7V–1.9V.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.vlsi.2022.12.009
DO - 10.1016/j.vlsi.2022.12.009
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85145263396
SN - 0167-9260
VL - 89
SP - 207
EP - 216
JO - Integration
JF - Integration
ER -