Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for logic cell-based PUF generators
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Application No.: US18232336Application Date: 2023-08-09
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Publication No.: US12074992B2Publication Date: 2024-08-27
- Inventor: Shih-Lien Linus Lu , Cormac Michael O'Connell
- Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: TW Hsin-Chu
- Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: TW Hsin-Chu
- Agency: Duane Morris LLP
- Main IPC: H04L9/32
- IPC: H04L9/32

Abstract:
Disclosed is a physical unclonable function generator circuit and testing method. In one embodiment, a physical unclonable function (PUF) generator includes: a PUF cell array comprising a plurality of bit cells configured in a plurality of columns and at least one row, wherein each of the plurality of columns is coupled to at least two pre-discharge transistors, and each of the plurality of bit cells comprises at least one enable transistor, at least two access transistors, and at least two storage nodes, and a PUF control circuit coupled to the PUF cell array, wherein the PUF control circuit is configured to access the plurality of bit cells to pre-charge the at least two storage nodes with substantially the same voltages allowing each of the plurality of bit cell having a first metastable logical state; to determine a second logical state; and based on the determined second logical states of the plurality of bit cells, to generate a PUF signature.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230388135A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOGIC CELL-BASED PUF GENERATORS Public/Granted day:2023-11-30
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