Secure chip identification using resistive processing unit as a physically unclonable function

    公开(公告)号:GB2610344B

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-15

    申请号:GB202217559

    申请日:2021-03-19

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: A technique relates to biasing, using a control system, a crossbar array of resistive processing units (RPUs) under a midrange condition, the midrange condition causing resistances of the RPUs to result in a random output of low values and high values in about equal proportions. The control system reinforces the low values and the high values of the random output by setting the resistances of the RPUs to a state that forces the low values and the high values having resulted from the midrange condition. Reinforcing the low values and the high values makes the random output permanent even when the crossbar array of the RPUs is not biased under the midrange condition. The control system records a sequence of the low values and the high values of the random output responsive to reinforcing the low values and the high values of the random output.

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