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Implementing a Unique Chip ID on a Reconfigurable Polymorphic Circuit

SEKANINA Lukáš, RŮŽIČKA Richard, VAŠÍČEK Zdeněk, ŠIMEK Václav and HANÁČEK Petr. Implementing a Unique Chip ID on a Reconfigurable Polymorphic Circuit. Information Technology And Control, vol. 42, no. 1, 2013, pp. 7-14. ISSN 1392-124X. Available from: http://www.itc.ktu.lt/index.php/ITC/article/view/925
Czech title
Implementace unikátního identifikátoru čipu pomocí polymorfního rekonfigurovatelného obvodu
Type
journal article
Language
english
Authors
Sekanina Lukáš, prof. Ing., Ph.D. (DCSY FIT BUT)
Růžička Richard, doc. Ing., Ph.D., MBA (DCSY FIT BUT)
Vašíček Zdeněk, doc. Ing., Ph.D. (DCSY FIT BUT)
Šimek Václav, Ing. (DCSY FIT BUT)
Hanáček Petr, doc. Dr. Ing. (DITS FIT BUT)
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Keywords

Unclonable ID, Polymorphic Gate, Process Variation, Reconfigurable Circuit, Security

Abstract

A unique unclonable chip ID has been implemented using various platforms in the recent years. In this paper, we investigate the use of polymorphic gates as a new mechanism for implementing a unique chip ID in systems already containing some polymorphic gates. The proposed solution exploits the fact that switching time of polymorphic gates (controlled by Vdd) is slightly different even for neighboring gates on the same die because of fabrication variations. We applied a partial reconfiguration in order to generate 48-bit IDs on the reconfigurable polymorphic REPOMO32 chip that we have developed in our previous research. We achieved 94.44% stable bits which is reasonably close to existing approaches.

Published
2013
Pages
7-14
Journal
Information Technology And Control, vol. 42, no. 1, ISSN 1392-124X
DOI
10.5755/j01.itc.42.1.925
UT WoS
000324699800001
EID Scopus
2-s2.0-84875163740
BibTeX 
@ARTICLE{FITPUB10180,
   author = "Luk\'{a}\v{s} Sekanina and Richard R\r{u}\v{z}i\v{c}ka and Zden\v{e}k Va\v{s}\'{i}\v{c}ek and V\'{a}clav \v{S}imek and Petr Han\'{a}\v{c}ek",
   title = "Implementing a Unique Chip ID on a Reconfigurable Polymorphic Circuit",
   pages = "7--14",
   journal = "Information Technology And Control",
   volume = 42,
   number = 1,
   year = 2013,
   ISSN = "1392-124X",
   doi = "10.5755/j01.itc.42.1.925",
   language = "english",
   url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/10180"
}
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