Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Non-volatile memory with physical unclonable function
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Application No.: US16581855Application Date: 2019-09-25
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Publication No.: US10657294B2Publication Date: 2020-05-19
- Inventor: Christoph Hans Joachim Garbe , Soenke Ostertun
- Applicant: NXP B.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Eindhoven
- Assignee: NXP B.V.
- Current Assignee: NXP B.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Eindhoven
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@5ad994dd
- Main IPC: H03K19/00
- IPC: H03K19/00 ; G06F21/79 ; H04L9/08 ; G11C16/04

Abstract:
In accordance with a first aspect of the present disclosure, a non-volatile memory is provided, comprising: a plurality of storage elements; a plurality of access transistors, said access transistors being connected to one or more of said storage elements; a measurement unit, wherein said measurement unit is configured to measure a variation between electrical characteristics of said access transistors; a processing unit configured to use said variation between electric characteristics as a physical unclonable function. In accordance with a second aspect of the present disclosure, a corresponding method of manufacturing a non-volatile memory is conceived.
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