학술논문

Cloning the Unclonable: Physically Cloning an FPGA Ring-Oscillator PUF
Document Type
Conference
Source
2022 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (ICFPT) Field-Programmable Technology (ICFPT), 2022 International Conference on. :1-10 Dec, 2022
Subject
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Heating systems
Ring oscillators
Degradation
Cloning
Aging
Physical unclonable function
Delays
Language
Abstract
This work presents a novel technique to physically clone a ring oscillator physically unclonable function (RO PDF) onto another distinct FPG A die, using precise, targeted aging. The resulting cloned RO PDF provides a response that is identical to its copied FPGA counterpart, i.e., the FPGA and its clone are indistinguishable from each other. Targeted aging is achieved by: 1) heating the FPGA using bitstream-Iocated short circuits, and 2) enabling/disabling ROs in the same FPGA bitstream. During self heating caused by short-circuits contained in the FPGA bitstream, circuit areas containing oscillating ROs (enabled) degrade more slowly than circuit areas containing non-oscillating ROs (disabled), due to bias temperature instability effects. This targeted aging technique is used to swap the relative frequencies of two ROs that will, in turn, flip the corresponding bit in the PUF response. Two experiments are described. The first experiment uses targeted aging to create an FPGA that exhibits the same PUF response as another FPGA, i.e., a clone of an FPGA PUF onto another FPGA device. The second experiment demonstrates that this aging technique can create an RO PUF with any desired response.