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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2023
Macronix International Co., Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Chun-Hsiung Hung, Hsinchu, TW;
Chin-Hung Chang, Tainan, TW;
MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD., Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
A device which can be implemented on a single packaged integrated circuit or a multichip module comprises a plurality of non-volatile memory cells, and logic to use a physical unclonable function to produce a key and to store the key in a set of non-volatile memory cells in the plurality of non-volatile memory cells. The physical unclonable function can use entropy derived from non-volatile memory cells in the plurality of non-volatile memory cells to produce a key. Logic is described to disable changes to data in the set of non-volatile memory cells, and thereby freeze the key after it is stored in the set.