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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2004
Stephen Sapiro, Cornelius, OR (US);
Stephen Sapiro, Cornelius, OR (US);
Icid, LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A ID circuit produces a unique binary identification code (ID) for each integrated circuit in which it is implemented by setting states of each bit of the ID as a function of random variations in material forming the IC that occur at the time the IC is fabricated. The ID circuit includes an ID generating circuit for generating the ID, a non-volatile memory, and a control circuit for writing the ID generated by the ID generating circuit into the non-volatile memory in response to a first occurrence of a write cue event. Thereafter the control circuit responds to each occurrence of a read cue event by reading the ID out of the non-volatile memory and providing it as an IC output.