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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2021
Analog Devices, Inc., Wilmington, MA (US);
Chiraag Juvekar, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abhijit Kuvar, Woburn, MA (US);
Analog Devices, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A method and electronic device for configuring a PUF, wherein: PUF cells are configured to use a signal path; determining a winner of racing pairs of PUF cells in a first round and in a second round wherein winners of the first round are raced; the first and second round are repeated for different signal paths; determining, for each signal path, a comparison metric, wherein the comparison metric is based on the count of the outputs of the PUF cells having the signal path in common; determining an optimum signal path for the PUF from the respective comparison metrics; and configuring the PUF to use the optimum signal path.