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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2020
Stmicroelectronics (Crolles 2) Sas, Crolles, FR;
Stmicroelectronics (Rousset) Sas, Rousset, FR;
Francesco La Rosa, Rousset, FR;
Marc Mantelli, Fuveau, FR;
Stephan Niel, Meylan, FR;
Arnaud Regnier, Les Taillades, FR;
STMICROELECTRONICS (ROUSSET) SAS, Rousset, FR;
STMICROELECTRONICS (CROLLES 2) SAS, Crolles, FR;
Abstract
In accordance with an embodiment, a physically unclonable function device includes a set of transistor pairs, transistors of the set of transistor pairs having a randomly distributed effective threshold voltage belonging to a common random distribution; a differential read circuit configured to measure a threshold difference between the effective threshold voltages of transistors of transistor pairs of the set of transistor pairs, and to identify a transistor pair in which the measured threshold difference is smaller than a margin value as being an unreliable transistor pair; and a write circuit configured to shift the effective threshold voltage of a transistor of the unreliable transistor pair to be inside the common random distribution.