Invention Publication
- Patent Title: REUSING MEMORY ARRAYS FOR PHYSICALLY UNCLONABLE FUNCTION (PUF) GENERATION
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Application No.: US18050547Application Date: 2022-10-28
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Publication No.: US20240143167A1Publication Date: 2024-05-02
- Inventor: Nihaar N. Mahatme , Anirban Roy
- Applicant: NXP USA, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TX Austin
- Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
- Current Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Austin
- Main IPC: G06F3/06
- IPC: G06F3/06 ; G06F9/4401 ; G11C11/412 ; G11C11/419

Abstract:
An array of bit cells is programmed with user data, each row including a corresponding word line and each column including a corresponding column line. The array includes a plurality of differential PUF bits, each having a first and second bit cell programmed with user data. A first set of sense-amplifiers outputs a set of data bits of the user data, and a second set of sense-amplifiers outputs a set of differential bits, each differential bit based on a differential current between two columns lines of the selected column lines corresponding to the first and second bit cells of a corresponding differential PUF bit along the selected word line. A potential PUF bit generator outputs a set of potential PUF bits based on the set of data bits of the user data from the first set of sense-amplifiers and the set of differential bits from the second set of sense-amplifiers.
Public/Granted literature
- US12001674B2 Reusing memory arrays for physically unclonable function (PUF) generation Public/Granted day:2024-06-04
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