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US 9,437,555 B2Granted
Semiconductor device having features to prevent reverse engineering
AssigneeVerisiti, Inc.
InventorWilliam Eli Thacker, III
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Abstract
It is desirable to design and manufacture electronic chips that are resistant to modern reverse engineering techniques. Disclosed is a method and device that allows for the design of chips that are difficult to reverse engineer using modern teardown techniques. The disclosed device uses devices having the same geometry but different voltage levels to create different logic devices. Alternatively, the disclosed uses devices having different geometries and the same operating characteristics. Also disclosed is a method of designing a chip using these devices.
Claims12
An electronic element comprising:
- a first floating gate device having a first geometry and a first characteristic, the first floating gate device including only a single layer of polysilicon;
- a second floating gate device having a second geometry and a second characteristic, wherein the first geometry and the second geometry are the same and the second characteristic is different than the first characteristic and the first characteristic and second characteristic are dependent upon at least parasitic element, the second floating gate device including only a single layer of polysilicon;
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- an output, wherein a level of the output is dependent upon the first characteristic and the second characteristic.
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An electronic element comprising:
- a first floating gate device having a first geometry and a first characteristic, the first floating gate device including only a single layer of polysilicon;
- a second floating gate device having a second geometry and a second characteristic, wherein the first geometry and the second geometry are different and the second characteristic is the same as the first characteristic, and the first characteristic and the second characteristic are dependent upon at least one parasitic element, the second floating gate device including only a single layer of polysilicon;
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- an output, wherein a level of the output is dependent upon the first characteristic and the second characteristic.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.