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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2018
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Xia Li, San Diego, CA (US);
Seung Hyuk Kang, San Diego, CA (US);
Bin Yang, San Diego, CA (US);
Gengming Tao, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
In certain aspects, an apparatus comprises a plurality of PUF cells. Each PUF cell comprises a first transistor in series with a first loading resistive component and coupled to a common cross-coupled node and cross-coupled to a complementary common cross-coupled node, a second transistor in series with a second loading resistive component and coupled to the complementary common cross-coupled node and cross-coupled to the common cross-coupled node, a first pass-gate and a second pass-gate coupled to a bit line and the complementary bit line, respectively. The apparatus further comprises an auxiliary peripheral circuit coupled to the bit line, the complementary bit line, the common cross-coupled node, and the complementary common cross-coupled node. During activation, the selected PUF cell, together with the auxiliary peripheral circuit, forms a cross-coupled inverter pair and outputs a physical unclonable function value.