CNPUF: A Carbon Nanotube-based Physically Unclonable Function for secure low-energy hardware design

Author

Konigsmark, S. T. Choden ; Hwang, Leslie K. ; Deming Chen ; Wong, Martin D. F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

20-23 Jan. 2014

Firstpage

73

Lastpage

78

Abstract

Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are used to provide identification, authentication and secret key generation based on unique and unpredictable physical characteristics. Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistors (CNFETs) were shown to have excellent electrical and unique physical characteristics and are promising candidates to replace silicon transistors in future Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) designs. We present Carbon Nanotube PUF (CNPUF), the first PUF design that takes advantage of unique CNFET characteristics. CNPUF achieves higher reliability against environmental variations and increased resistance against modeling attacks. Furthermore, CNPUF has a considerable power and energy reduction in comparison to previous ultra-low power PUF designs of 89.6% and 98%, respectively. Additionally, CNPUF allows power-security tradeoff.

Keywords

VLSI; carbon nanotube field effect transistors; semiconductor device reliability; CNPUF; VLSI designs; carbon nanotube field effect transistors; carbon nanotube-based physically unclonable function; energy reduction; modeling attacks; power-security tradeoff; secret key generation; secure low-energy hardware design; silicon transistors; ultra-low power PUF designs; unique CNFET characteristics; unpredictable physical characteristics; very large scale integration design; CNTFETs; Integrated circuit modeling; Logic gates; Reliability engineering; Security;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2014 19th Asia and South Pacific

Conference_Location

Singapore

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASPDAC.2014.6742869

Filename

6742869