scholarly journals Runtime Analysis of Area-Efficient Uniform RO-PUF for Uniqueness and Reliability Balancing

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (20) ◽  
pp. 2504
Author(s):  
Zulfikar Zulfikar ◽  
Norhayati Soin ◽  
Sharifah Fatmadiana Wan Muhamad Hatta ◽  
Mohamad Sofian Abu Talip
Keyword(s):  
Main Issue ◽  
Ring Oscillator ◽  
Runtime Analysis ◽  
Physical Unclonable Functions ◽  
Conventional Design ◽  
Response Pair ◽  
Environmental Variations ◽  
Close Frequency ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Ic Technology

The main issue of ring oscillator physical unclonable functions (RO-PUF) is the existence of unstable ROs in response to environmental variations. The RO pairs with close frequency differences tend to contribute bit flips, reducing the reliability. Research on improving reliability has been carried out over the years. However, it has led to other issues, such as decreasing the uniqueness and increasing the area utilized. Therefore, this paper proposes a uniform RO-PUF, requiring a smaller area than a conventional design, aiming to balance reliability and uniqueness. We analyzed RO runtimes to increase reliability. In general, our method (uniqueness = 47.48%, reliability = 99.16%) performs better than previously proposed methods for a similar platform (Altera), and the reliability is as good as the latest methods using the same IC technology (28 nm). Moreover, the reliability is higher than that of RO-PUF with challenge and response pair (CRP) enhancements. The evaluation was performed in longer runtimes, where the pulses produced by ROs exceeded the counter capacity. This work recommends choosing ranges of the runtime of RO for better performance. For the 11-stage ROs, the range should be 1.598–4.30 ms, or 6.12–8.61 ms, or 12.24–12.91 ms. Meanwhile, for the 20-stage, the range should be 2.717–8.37 ms, or 10.97–16.74 ms, or 21.93–25.10 ms.

scholarly journals Total Ionizing Dose Effects on a Delay-Based Physical Unclonable Function Implemented in FPGAs

Electronics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. 163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Honorio Martin ◽  
Pedro Martin-Holgado ◽  
Yolanda Morilla ◽  
Luis Entrena ◽  
Enrique San-Millan
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Ring Oscillator ◽  
Radiation Environment ◽  
Key Generation ◽  
Total Ionizing Dose ◽  
Space Applications ◽  
Physical Unclonable Functions ◽  
Dose Effects ◽  
Total Ionizing Dose Effects

Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are hardware security primitives that are increasingly being used for authentication and key generation in ICs and FPGAs. For space systems, they are a promising approach to meet the needs for secure communications at low cost. To this purpose, it is essential to determine if they are reliable in the space radiation environment. In this work we evaluate the Total Ionizing Dose effects on a delay-based PUF implemented in SRAM-FPGA, namely a Ring Oscillator PUF. Several major quality metrics have been used to analyze the evolution of the PUF response with the total ionizing dose. Experimental results demonstrate that total ionizing dose has a perceptible effect on the quality of the PUF response, but it could still be used for space applications by making some appropriate corrections.

scholarly journals Barrel Shifter Physical Unclonable Function Based Encryption

Cryptography ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunxi Guo ◽  
Timothy Dee ◽  
Akhilesh Tyagi
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Manufacturing Process ◽  
Ring Oscillator ◽  
Key Generation ◽  
Physical Unclonable Functions ◽  
Encryption And Decryption ◽  
Barrel Shifter ◽  
Transmission Gates ◽  
Encryption Decryption ◽  
Randomness Tests

Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are designed to extract physical randomness from the underlying silicon. This randomness depends on the manufacturing process. It differs for each device. This enables chip-level authentication and key generation applications. We present an encryption protocol using PUFs as primary encryption/decryption functions. Each party has a PUF used for encryption and decryption. This PUF is constrained to be invertible and commutative. The focus of the paper is an evaluation of an invertible and commutative PUF based on a primitive shifting permutation network—a barrel shifter. Barrel shifter (BS) PUF captures the delay of different shift paths. This delay is entangled with message bits before they are sent across an insecure channel. BS-PUF is implemented using transmission gates for physical commutativity. Post-layout simulations of a common centroid layout 8-level barrel shifter in 0.13 μ m technology assess uniqueness, stability, randomness and commutativity properties. BS-PUFs pass all selected NIST statistical randomness tests. Stability similar to Ring Oscillator (RO) PUFs under environmental variation is shown. Logistic regression of 100,000 plaintext–ciphertext pairs (PCPs) fails to successfully model BS-PUF behavior.

scholarly journals Compact FPGA Ring Oscillator Physical Unclonable Functions Circuits Based on Intertwined Programmable Delay Paths

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yangpingqing Hu ◽  
Yuqiu Jiang ◽  
Weizhong Wang
Keyword(s):  
Ring Oscillator ◽  
Physical Unclonable Functions ◽  
Xilinx Fpga

Compact FPGA based PUF extraction circuits based on intertwined programmable delay paths implemented on Xilinx FPGA.

scholarly journals The Role of Common-Pool Resources’ Institutional Robustness in a Collective Action Dilemma under Environmental Variations.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Alicia Dipierri ◽  
Dimitrios Zikos
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Water Availability ◽  
Environmental Variability ◽  
Irrigation System ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
External Disturbances ◽  
Environmental Variations ◽  
Better Than

Extreme environmental variations (EV), as a phenomenon deriving from climate change (CC), led to an exacerbated uncertainty on water availability and increased the likelihood of conflicts regarding water-dependent activities such as agriculture. In this paper, we investigate the role of conflict resolution mechanisms -one of Ostrom’s acclaimed Design Principles (DPs)- when social-ecological systems (SESs) are exposed to physical external disturbances. The theoretical propositions predict that SESs with conflict-resolution-mechanisms will perform better than those without them. We tested this proposition through a framed-field-experiment that mimicked an irrigation system. In this asymmetric setting, farmers were exposed to two (2) dilemmas: (i) how much to invest in the communal irrigation system’s (CIS) maintenance and (ii) how much water to extract. The setting added a layer of complexity: water availability did not only depend on the investment but also on the environmental variability. Our findings largely confirmed the theoretical proposition: groups with stronger institutional robustness are able to cope with EV better than those with weaker robustness. However, we also found that some groups, despite lacking conflict-resolution-mechanisms, were also able to address EV. We explored potential explanatory variables to these unexpected results. We found that subjects’ and groups’ attributes might address uncertainty and avert conflict. Thus, SESs’ capacity to respond to external disturbances, such as EV, might not only be a question of DPs. Instead, it might also be strongly related to group members' attributes and group dynamics. Our results pave the way for further research, hinting that some groups might be better equipped for mitigation measures, while others might be better equipped for adaptation measures.

scholarly journals Circuit Simulation Considering Electrical Coupling in Monolithic 3D Logics with Junctionless FETs

Micromachines ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 887
Author(s):  
Tae Jun Ahn ◽  
Yun Seop Yu
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Circuit ◽  
Computer Aided Design ◽  
Circuit Simulation ◽  
Electrical Coupling ◽  
Ring Oscillator ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Flip Flop ◽  
Circuit Simulator ◽  
Aided Design ◽  
Better Than

The junctionless field-effect transistor (JLFET) compact model using the model parameters extracted from the LETI-UTSOI (version 2.1) model was proposed to perform circuit simulation considering the electrical coupling between the stacked JLFETs of a monolithic 3D integrated circuit (M3DIC) composed of JLFETs (M3DIC-JLFET). We validated the model by extracting the model parameters and comparing the simulation results of the technology computer-aided design and the Synopsys HSPICE circuit simulator. The performance of the M3DIC-JLFET was compared with that of the M3DIC composed of MOSFETs (M3DIC-MOSFET). The performance of a fan-out-3 ring oscillator with M3DIC-JLFET varied by less than 3% compared to that with M3DIC-MOSFET. The performances of ring oscillators of M3DIC-JLFET and M3DIC-MOSFET were almost the same. We simulated the performances of M3DICs such as an inverter, a NAND, a NOR, a 2 × 1 multiplexer, and a D flip-flop. The overall performance of the M3DIC-MOSFET was slightly better than that of the M3DIC-JLFET.

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