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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2014
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Charles Augustine, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Carlos Tokunaga, Hillsboro, OR (US);
James W. Tschanz, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/16 (2006.01); H03M 1/12 (2006.01); G11C 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/1695 (2013.01); G11C 11/16 (2013.01); G11C 13/004 (2013.01); H03M 1/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
Described is a physically unclonable functional circuit comprising: a resistive memory device (e.g., an MTJ device) having at least two terminals; a transistor coupled to one of the at least two terminals of the resistive memory device; and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) having an input coupled to the one of the at least two terminals of the resistive memory device.