SRAM Physically Unclonable Functions Implemented on Silicon Germanium
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Trujillo, Joshua; Merino, Christian; Zarkesh-Ha, Payman
- Source
- 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2019 IEEE International Symposium on. :1-4 May, 2019
- Subject
- Bioengineering
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Signal Processing and Analysis
Random access memory
NIST
Silicon germanium
Hamming distance
Field programmable gate arrays
Software
Measurement
Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs)
SRAM
circuit layout
silicon germanium
Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)
NIST frequency test
hamming distance (HD)
- Language
- ISSN
- 2158-1525
Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are unidirectional circuits, commonly implemented on silicon wafers, which are able to provide unique outputs despite having the same physical layout as their counterparts. This research focuses on implementing SRAM PUF circuits on Silicon Germanium wafers, which is a process that is gaining in popularity in industry. Our PUF circuits are evaluated against tests from the National Institute of Standards and Technology for randomness. We also cover traditional metrics such as hamming distance for evaluation of uniqueness and reliability.