An RRAM-based PUF with adjustable programmable voltage and multi-mode operation

Yijun Cui; Jiang Li; Chongyan Gu; Chenghua Wang; Weiqiang Liu

doi:10.1145/3611315.3633258

An RRAM-based PUF with adjustable programmable voltage and multi-mode operation

Yijun Cui
, Jiang Li
, Chongyan Gu
, Chenghua Wang
, Weiqiang Liu

School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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Abstract

The resistive random access memory (RRAM) is one of the promising technology based solutions for energy-efficient reconfigurable logic in memory (LiM) designs. In this paper, a Multi-Mode Configurable Physical Unclonable Function (MC-PUF) is proposed for secure RRAM-based LiM applications. The proposed MC-PUF can be configured to different working modes by adjusting the programming voltages of the corresponding RRAM. When the proposed MC-PUF is configured in a weak write mode, it exploits the inherent variations of an RRAM by adjusting the programming voltages to a switching probability of 50%. When the proposed MC-PUF is programmed in a normal reset voltage and configured in a parallel competition mode, it generates a response by selecting two parallel RRAMs. With the same number of RRAMs, the proposed MC-PUF generates more challenge-response pairs (CRPs) compared to conventional designs. The implementation of the MC-PUF on an RRAM crossbar array is presented. The results from both the experiment and simulation demonstrate that the proposed MC-PUF has good uniqueness, high reliability as well as excellent configurability.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	NANOARCH '23: Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures
Editors	Ronald Tetzlaff, Fernando Corinto, Neil Kemp, Alon Ascoli, Andreas Mögel, Meng-Fan (Marvin) Chang, Joseph S. Friedman, Siting Liu, John Paul Strachan, Stephan Menzel, Mehdi B. Tahoori, Martin Ziegler, Jason Eshraghian, Ioannis Messaris, Christian Koitzsch, Thomas Mikolajick, Vasileios Ntinas
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9798400703256
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3611315.3633258
Publication status	Published - 25 Jan 2024
Event	18th ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures, NANOARCH 2023 - Dresden, Germany Duration: 18 Dec 2023 → 20 Dec 2023

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Conference	18th ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures, NANOARCH 2023
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Dresden
Period	18/12/2023 → 20/12/2023

Keywords

configurable PUF
logic in memory
physical unclonable function
Resistive random access memory

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Networks and Communications
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Software

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Cui, Y., Li, J., Gu, C., Wang, C., & Liu, W. (2024). An RRAM-based PUF with adjustable programmable voltage and multi-mode operation. In R. Tetzlaff, F. Corinto, N. Kemp, A. Ascoli, A. Mögel, M.-F. Chang, J. S. Friedman, S. Liu, J. P. Strachan, S. Menzel, M. B. Tahoori, M. Ziegler, J. Eshraghian, I. Messaris, C. Koitzsch, T. Mikolajick, & V. Ntinas (Eds.), NANOARCH '23: Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures Article 20 Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3611315.3633258

Cui, Yijun ; Li, Jiang ; Gu, Chongyan et al. / An RRAM-based PUF with adjustable programmable voltage and multi-mode operation. NANOARCH '23: Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures. editor / Ronald Tetzlaff ; Fernando Corinto ; Neil Kemp ; Alon Ascoli ; Andreas Mögel ; Meng-Fan (Marvin) Chang ; Joseph S. Friedman ; Siting Liu ; John Paul Strachan ; Stephan Menzel ; Mehdi B. Tahoori ; Martin Ziegler ; Jason Eshraghian ; Ioannis Messaris ; Christian Koitzsch ; Thomas Mikolajick ; Vasileios Ntinas. Association for Computing Machinery, 2024.

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Cui, Y, Li, J, Gu, C, Wang, C & Liu, W 2024, An RRAM-based PUF with adjustable programmable voltage and multi-mode operation. in R Tetzlaff, F Corinto, N Kemp, A Ascoli, A Mögel, M-F Chang, JS Friedman, S Liu, JP Strachan, S Menzel, MB Tahoori, M Ziegler, J Eshraghian, I Messaris, C Koitzsch, T Mikolajick & V Ntinas (eds), NANOARCH '23: Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures., 20, Association for Computing Machinery, 18th ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures, NANOARCH 2023, Dresden, Germany, 18/12/2023. https://doi.org/10.1145/3611315.3633258

An RRAM-based PUF with adjustable programmable voltage and multi-mode operation. / Cui, Yijun; Li, Jiang; Gu, Chongyan et al.
NANOARCH '23: Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures. ed. / Ronald Tetzlaff; Fernando Corinto; Neil Kemp; Alon Ascoli; Andreas Mögel; Meng-Fan (Marvin) Chang; Joseph S. Friedman; Siting Liu; John Paul Strachan; Stephan Menzel; Mehdi B. Tahoori; Martin Ziegler; Jason Eshraghian; Ioannis Messaris; Christian Koitzsch; Thomas Mikolajick; Vasileios Ntinas. Association for Computing Machinery, 2024. 20.

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Cui Y, Li J, Gu C, Wang C, Liu W. An RRAM-based PUF with adjustable programmable voltage and multi-mode operation. In Tetzlaff R, Corinto F, Kemp N, Ascoli A, Mögel A, Chang MF, Friedman JS, Liu S, Strachan JP, Menzel S, Tahoori MB, Ziegler M, Eshraghian J, Messaris I, Koitzsch C, Mikolajick T, Ntinas V, editors, NANOARCH '23: Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures. Association for Computing Machinery. 2024. 20 doi: 10.1145/3611315.3633258

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