Chip Design of a Physically Unclonable Function Embedded in a SAR ADC

Abstract

This thesis presents a physically unclonable function (PUF) embedded in a 10-bit successive-approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) There are two operation modes in this design: PUF mode and ADC mode In the PUF mode this design realizes the physically unclonable function by manipulating the capacitor array in the SAR ADC Only a little area overhead is required for implementing the PUF An offset cancellation circuit is employed to improve the uniformity of the PUF design The proposed PUF is authenticated using Challenge Response Pairs (CRPs) Reliability and Uniqueness of the CRPs are 97 69% and 48 1% respectively Uniformity of the CRPs is 50 59% that is very close to the ideal value of 50% In the ADC mode this design achieves an ENOB of 9 66 under 20 MS/s

Date of Award	2020
Original language	English
Supervisor	Soon-Jyh Chang (Supervisor)