The Implementation of the Physical Unclonable Function in a Field-Programmable Gate Array for Enhancing Hardware Security

The integrated circuit (IC) industry has rapidly developed, with chip hardware security assuming a critical role in IC design. The physical unclonable function (PUF) exploits semiconductor process variation differences to generate unique responses randomly. Due to its non-replicability, PUF has emer...

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Main Authors: Kuang-Hao Lin, Wei-Hao Wang, I-Chen Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2025-04-01
Series:Engineering Proceedings
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4591/92/1/23
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Summary:The integrated circuit (IC) industry has rapidly developed, with chip hardware security assuming a critical role in IC design. The physical unclonable function (PUF) exploits semiconductor process variation differences to generate unique responses randomly. Due to its non-replicability, PUF has emerged as one of the most commonly employed methods in hardware security. We propose PUF implementation employing an automatic scan selector to toggle between eight sets of multiplexers. With an 8-bit selector, 256 state inputs are automatically generated, and the PUF architecture enables a 256-bit unique identification code for the chip. Finally, the generated identification code is outputted either serially or in parallel and implemented on a field-programmable gate array platform.
ISSN:2673-4591