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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2011
Petrus Wijnandus Simons, Schaijk, NL;
Erik Van Der Sluis, Eindhoven, NL;
Petrus Wijnandus Simons, Schaijk, NL;
Erik Van Der Sluis, Eindhoven, NL;
INTRINSIC ID B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A physical unclonable function is provided, comprising a plurality of bus-keepers, each bus-keeper of the plurality of bus-keepersbeing configured to settle into one of at least two different stable states upon power-up, the particular stable state into which a particular bus-keeper of the plurality of bus-keepers settles being dependent at least in part upon the at least partially random physical characteristics of the particular bus-keeper, and a reading circuitfor reading the plurality of stable states into which the plurality of bus-keepers settled after a power-up, the plurality of bus-keepers being read-only.