There is a continuing need for high-level device security to transfer information on penetrable channels, track the device and data, and encrypt valuable data, whether for national security purposes, intellectual property, or company and individual privacy. Obtaining a unique signature for an integrated circuit can be an excellent tool to achieve...

The exponential growth of the Internet over the last few decades provides testament to the extreme success of the internet protocol (IP), the primary protocol responsible for delivering data packets between hosts across the heavily trafficked internet. Notwithstanding this success, IP address space is rapidly running out. Consequently, the more...

Random Access Memories (RAM) are read/write memory devices that can read data from or write data to any of its memory addresses. Static random access memories (SRAM) store data in flip-flops, which retain data as long as the SRAM is powered up. SRAMs are one of the VLSI circuit types most amenable to leakage power mitigation techniques. Most of...

Microprocessors depend on high integrity instructions and data to function properly. Various factors can corrupt this information, with high-energy sub-atomic particles and other types of electromagnetic radiation effects being among the more difficult of these factors against which to guard. Because a single erroneous bit of information can lead...

It is possible to fabricate radiation-hardened circuits using commercially available, state-of-the-art CMOS manufacturing processes via novel applications of Radiation Hardening by Design (RHBD) techniques. RHBD techniques allow users to mitigate total ionizing dose (TID) effects caused by layout techniques while being able to handle single event...

Electronic circuits, electronic state storing circuits in particular, are vulnerable to high-energy sub-atomic particles and electromagnetic radiation. Consequently, techniques of “radiation hardening” the circuits that utilize special circuit designs, circuit layouts, select materials, or any combination thereof, are commonly employed to reduce...