Publication detail

Implementing a Unique Chip ID on a Reconfigurable Polymorphic Circuit

SEKANINA, L. RŮŽIČKA, R. VAŠÍČEK, Z. ŠIMEK, V. HANÁČEK, P.

Original Title

Implementing a Unique Chip ID on a Reconfigurable Polymorphic Circuit

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original 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.

Keywords

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

Authors

SEKANINA, L.; RŮŽIČKA, R.; VAŠÍČEK, Z.; ŠIMEK, V.; HANÁČEK, P.

RIV year

2013

Released

14. 3. 2013

ISBN

1392-124X

Periodical

Information Technology and Control

Year of study

42

Number

1

State

Republic of Lithuania

Pages from

7

Pages to

14

Pages count

8

URL

http://www.itc.ktu.lt/index.php/ITC/article/view/925

BibTex

@article{BUT103431,
  author="Lukáš {Sekanina} and Richard {Růžička} and Zdeněk {Vašíček} and Václav {Šimek} and Petr {Hanáček}",
  title="Implementing a Unique Chip ID on a Reconfigurable Polymorphic Circuit",
  journal="Information Technology and Control",
  year="2013",
  volume="42",
  number="1",
  pages="7--14",
  doi="10.5755/j01.itc.42.1.925",
  issn="1392-124X",
  url="http://www.itc.ktu.lt/index.php/ITC/article/view/925"
}