Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Physical unclonable function system and method
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Application No.: US15967511Application Date: 2018-04-30
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Publication No.: US10424361B2Publication Date: 2019-09-24
- Inventor: John Anthony Rodriguez , Richard Allen Bailey
- Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US TX Dallas
- Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Current Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Dallas
- Agent Rose Alyssa Keagy; Charles A. Brill; Frank D. Cimino
- Main IPC: G11C11/22
- IPC: G11C11/22 ; H04L9/32

Abstract:
A method of generating a random number from an electronic circuit memory and/or a system with the electronic circuit memory. The memory comprises a block of ferroelectric two transistor, two capacitor (2T-2C), memory cells. The method comprises: (i) first, writing a predetermined programming pattern to the block cells in a one transistor, one-capacitor (1T-1C) mode, thusly writing, per cell, a same data state to both a first and second sub-cell of the cell; (ii) second, reading the cells in a 2T-2C mode to generate a random number comprising a random bit from each of the cells; (iii) third, restoring the random number into the cells in a 2T-2C mode, thusly writing, per cell, a complementary data state to both a first and second sub-cell of the cell, responsive to a respective random number bit; and fourth, imprinting the random number in each cell in the block.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190252016A1 Physical Unclonable Function System and Method Public/Granted day:2019-08-15
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