Title page for E-project-031709-141338

Project Type MQP

Submission date 2009-03-17

Authors
Jatin Chopra, ECE
Robyn L Colopy, ECE

URN E-project-031709-141338

Sponsor General Dynamics C4 Systems

Title SRAM Characteristics as Physical Unclonable Functions

Advisor
Sunar, Berk, EE

Availability unrestricted

Abstract
The purpose of this project is to determine whether the initial contents of SRAM, when treated as a Physical Unclonable Function, are a reasonable choice for generating an encryption key for an FPGA configuration bitstream. The idea of an SRAM PUF was previously proposed by Gerardo et al and we verified his results with a different FPGA family. We characterize the contents of SRAM on restart. Using MATLAB we statistically analyze the data to determine how the contents vary with respect to the multiple dimensions. Once the characterization is complete it will be possible to determine whether a certain bit pattern is likely to have come from the given SRAM.

Files
mqp_sram.pdf

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Project Type	MQP
Submission date	2009-03-17
Authors	Jatin Chopra, ECE Robyn L Colopy, ECE
URN	E-project-031709-141338
Sponsor	General Dynamics C4 Systems
Title	SRAM Characteristics as Physical Unclonable Functions
Advisor	Sunar, Berk, EE
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract The purpose of this project is to determine whether the initial contents of SRAM, when treated as a Physical Unclonable Function, are a reasonable choice for generating an encryption key for an FPGA configuration bitstream. The idea of an SRAM PUF was previously proposed by Gerardo et al and we verified his results with a different FPGA family. We characterize the contents of SRAM on restart. Using MATLAB we statistically analyze the data to determine how the contents vary with respect to the multiple dimensions. Once the characterization is complete it will be possible to determine whether a certain bit pattern is likely to have come from the given SRAM.
Files	mqp_sram.pdf