Presentation 2017-11-07
A PUF Based on the Instantaneous Response of Ring Oscillator Determined by the Convergence Time of Bistable Ring Oscillator Circuit
Yuki Tanaka, Song Bian, Masayuki Hiromoto, Takashi Sato,
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Abstract(in English) Studies on physical unclonable function (PUF) have been actively conducted as one of the countermeasures against counterfeited chips. PUF is a circuit that serves as a function which returns a response corresponding to a given challenge. In addition to uniqueness and reproducibility, resistance against machine learning attacks has been emphasized as an important metric to evaluate PUF. Most of existing PUFs are vulnerable to the machine learning attacks such as support vector machine (SVM). This paper proposes a PUF architecture that improves resistance against machine learning attacks. By utilizing the fact that the convergence time of a bistable ring circuit changes strongly nonlinearly with respect to threshold voltage variation, the proposed PUF generates response as an instantaneous value of a ring oscillator at a convergence time of the bistable ring running in parallel. Resistance against machine learning attacks as well as randomness, diffuseness, uniqueness, and reproducibility of the proposed PUF have been validated through SPICE simulations.
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Keyword(in English) PUF / Hardware Security / Ring Oscillator / Machine Learning
Paper # VLD2017-40,DC2017-46
Date of Issue 2017-10-30 (VLD, DC)

Conference Information
Committee VLD / DC / CPSY / RECONF / CPM / ICD / IE / IPSJ-SLDM / IPSJ-EMB / IPSJ-ARC
Conference Date 2017/11/6(3days)
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Place (in English) Kumamoto-Kenminkouryukan Parea
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Topics (in English) Design Gaia 2017 -New Field of VLSI Design-
Chair Hiroyuki Ochi(Ritsumeikan Univ.) / Michiko Inoue(NAIST) / Koji Nakano(Hiroshima Univ.) / Masato Motomura(Hokkaido Univ.) / Fumihiko Hirose(Yamagata Univ.) / Hideto Hidaka(Renesas) / Takayuki Hamamoto(Tokyo Univ. of Science) / Kiyoharu Hamaguchi(Shimane Univ.) / 渡辺 晴美(東海大) / Masahiro Goshima(NII)
Vice Chair Noriyuki Minegishi(Mitsubishi Electric) / Satoshi Fukumoto(Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.) / Hidetsugu Irie(Univ. of Tokyo) / Takashi Miyoshi(Fujitsu) / Yuichiro Shibata(Nagasaki Univ.) / Kentaro Sano(Tohoku Univ.) / Mayumi Takeyama(Kitami Inst. of Tech.) / Makoto Nagata(Kobe Univ.) / Kazuya Kodama(NII) / Hideaki Kimata(NTT)
Secretary Noriyuki Minegishi(Hiroshima City Univ.) / Satoshi Fukumoto(NTT) / Hidetsugu Irie(Kyoto Sangyo Univ.) / Takashi Miyoshi(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) / Yuichiro Shibata(Utsunomiya Univ.) / Kentaro Sano(Hokkaido Univ.) / Mayumi Takeyama(Hiroshima City Univ.) / Makoto Nagata(e-trees.Japan) / Kazuya Kodama(Nihon Univ.) / Hideaki Kimata(Toyohashi Univ. of Tech.) / (Univ. of Tokyo) / (Panasonic) / (Nagoya Univ.)
Assistant / Masayuki Arai(Nihon Univ.) / Yasuaki Ito(Hiroshima Univ.) / Tomoaki Tsumura(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) / Yuuki Kobayashi(NEC) / Hiroki Nakahara(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) / Yuichi Akage(NTT) / Masanori Natsui(Tohoku Univ.) / Masatoshi Tsuge(Socionext) / Hiroyuki Ito(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) / Pham Konkuha(Univ. of Electro-Comm.) / Yasutaka Matsuo(NHK) / Kazuya Hayase(NTT)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on VLSI Design Technologies / Technical Committee on Dependable Computing / Technical Committee on Computer Systems / Technical Committee on Reconfigurable Systems / Technical Committee on Component Parts and Materials / Technical Committee on Integrated Circuits and Devices / Technical Committee on Image Engineering / Special Interest Group on System and LSI Design Methodology / Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems / Special Interest Group on System Architecture
Language JPN
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Title (in English) A PUF Based on the Instantaneous Response of Ring Oscillator Determined by the Convergence Time of Bistable Ring Oscillator Circuit
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) PUF
Keyword(2) Hardware Security
Keyword(3) Ring Oscillator
Keyword(4) Machine Learning
1st Author's Name Yuki Tanaka
1st Author's Affiliation Kyoto University(Kyoto Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Song Bian
2nd Author's Affiliation Kyoto University(Kyoto Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Masayuki Hiromoto
3rd Author's Affiliation Kyoto University(Kyoto Univ.)
4th Author's Name Takashi Sato
4th Author's Affiliation Kyoto University(Kyoto Univ.)
Date 2017-11-07
Paper # VLD2017-40,DC2017-46
Volume (vol) vol.117
Number (no) VLD-273,DC-274
Page pp.pp.79-84(VLD), pp.79-84(DC),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2017-10-30 (VLD, DC)