Visible to the public A subthreshold 30pJ/bit self-timed ring based true random number generator for internet of everything

TitleA subthreshold 30pJ/bit self-timed ring based true random number generator for internet of everything
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2017
AuthorsCoustans, M., Terrier, C., Eberhardt, T., Salgado, S., Cherkaoui, A., Fesquet, L.
Conference Name2017 IEEE SOI-3D-Subthreshold Microelectronics Technology Unified Conference (S3S)
Date Publishedoct
ISBN Number 978-1-5386-3766-1
KeywordsCMOS analogue integrated circuits, CMOS flash process, composability, cryptography, Entropy, FIPS 140-2, Generators, high quality random bit sequences, integrated circuit design, Internet of Everything, Internet of Things, inverter based ring oscillator, Jitter, Logic gates, Metrics, Microelectronics Security, NIST, NIST SP 800-22 statistical tests, Noise, oscillator, Oscillators, physics based entropy source, pubcrawl, PVT variation, random number generation, random number generator, resilience, Resiliency, Ring oscillators, security, size 180.0 nm, statistical testing, subthreshold self-timed ring, true random number generator (TRNG)
Abstract

This paper presents a true random number generator that exploits the subthreshold properties of jitter of events propagating in a self-timed ring and jitter of events propagating in an inverter based ring oscillator. Design was implemented in 180nm CMOS flash process. Devices provide high quality random bit sequences passing FIPS 140-2 and NIST SP 800-22 statistical tests which guaranty uniform distribution and unpredictability thanks to the physics based entropy source.

URLhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8308742/
DOI10.1109/S3S.2017.8308742
Citation Keycoustans_subthreshold_2017