1. An Arbiter PUF employing eye-opening oscillation for improved noise suppression
- Author
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Herkle, Andreas, Becker, Joachim, and Ortmanns, Maurits
- Subjects
Eye-opening Oscillation ,021110 strategic, defence & security studies ,Integrierte Schaltung ,Physical Unclonable Function ,Computersicherheit ,020208 electrical & electronic engineering ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Hardware_PERFORMANCEANDRELIABILITY ,02 engineering and technology ,Arbiter PUF ,Multiplexing ,Integrated Circuits ,Computer security ,Hardware_INTEGRATEDCIRCUITS ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,DDC 004 / Data processing & computer science ,ddc:004 ,Oscillators, Electric ,Oszillator - Abstract
Like every integrated circuit, Arbiter-PUFs suffer from any ambience variations such as electrical noise, supply voltage variations and temperature fluctuations. In this work, we show that most bit-errors are related to small phase differences, for which noise dominates the readout bit value. We present an approach eliminating this influence by modifying the arbitration circuit part into an eye-opening oscillator. By utilizing the deadzone of two D-Flip-Flops, the decision about the response is delayed until the phase difference becomes significant enough. With this modification, we could increase the PUFs initial bit-error rate of 3.31% to almost zero. We also highlight important design choices for this solution, like the setup-time of the D-Flip-Flops and the minimum number of enforced oscillations., acceptedVersion
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- 2018