Invention Publication
- Patent Title: PHYSICAL UNCLONABLE FUNCTION LEVERAGING STOCHASTIC VARIATIONS OF PASSIVE ELEMENTS
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Application No.: US17537605Application Date: 2021-11-30
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Publication No.: US20230171114A1Publication Date: 2023-06-01
- Inventor: Dallas Lea , Yann Mignot , Marc A. Bergendahl , Alex Joseph Varghese , Sean Teehan , Andrew M. Greene , Matthew T. Shoudy
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Main IPC: H04L9/32
- IPC: H04L9/32 ; H03K3/03 ; H03H7/06 ; H03H7/01 ; H03K3/037

Abstract:
A physical unclonable function (PUF) device includes a ring oscillator, a plurality of band-pass filters, a demultiplexer, and a latch. The ring oscillator generates a frequency signal. Each passive band-pass filter performs filtering on the frequency signal to pass the frequency signal or block the frequency signal. The demultiplexer receives a set of challenge bits and delivers the frequency signal to a selected passive band-pass filter among the plurality of passive band-passed filters based on the challenge bit. The latch outputs a response bit in response to the filtering performed by the selected passive band-pass filter.
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