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1. (US20160239684) Device and method for generating identification key by using semiconductor process
Office : United States of America
Application Number: 15025191 Application Date: 19.02.2014
Publication Number: 20160239684 Publication Date: 18.08.2016
Grant Number: 10002262 Grant Date: 19.06.2018
Publication Kind : B2
Prior PCT appl.: Application Number:PCTKR2014001320 ; Publication Number: Click to see the data
IPC:
G06F 21/00
G06F 21/73
H01L 21/8234
H01L 27/06
H04L 9/08
G09C 1/00
G PHYSICS
06
COMPUTING; CALCULATING; COUNTING
F
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
21
Security arrangements for protecting computers, components thereof, programs or data against unauthorised activity
G PHYSICS
06
COMPUTING; CALCULATING; COUNTING
F
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
21
Security arrangements for protecting computers, components thereof, programs or data against unauthorised activity
70
Protecting specific internal or peripheral components, in which the protection of a component leads to protection of the entire computer
71
to assure secure computing or processing of information
73
by creating or determining hardware identification, e.g. serial numbers
H ELECTRICITY
01
BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
L
SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
21
Processes or apparatus specially adapted for the manufacture or treatment of semiconductor or solid state devices or of parts thereof
70
Manufacture or treatment of devices consisting of a plurality of solid state components or integrated circuits formed in or on a common substrate or of specific parts thereof; Manufacture of integrated circuit devices or of specific parts thereof
77
Manufacture or treatment of devices consisting of a plurality of solid state components or integrated circuits formed in, or on, a common substrate
78
with subsequent division of the substrate into plural individual devices
82
to produce devices, e.g. integrated circuits, each consisting of a plurality of components
822
the substrate being a semiconductor, using silicon technology
8232
Field-effect technology
8234
MIS technology
H ELECTRICITY
01
BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
L
SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
27
Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate
02
including semiconductor components specially adapted for rectifying, oscillating, amplifying or switching and having at least one potential-jump barrier or surface barrier; including integrated passive circuit elements with at least one potential-jump barrier or surface barrier
04
the substrate being a semiconductor body
06
including a plurality of individual components in a non-repetitive configuration
H ELECTRICITY
04
ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
L
TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
9
Arrangements for secret or secure communication
06
the encryption apparatus using shift registers or memories for blockwise coding, e.g. D.E.S. systems
08
Key distribution
G PHYSICS
09
EDUCATING; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
C
CIPHERING OR DECIPHERING APPARATUS FOR CRYPTOGRAPHIC OR OTHER PURPOSES INVOLVING THE NEED FOR SECRECY
1
Apparatus or methods whereby a given sequence of signs, e.g. an intelligible text, is transformed into an unintelligible sequence of signs by transposing the signs or groups of signs or by replacing them by others according to a predetermined system
CPC:
G06F 21/73
G09C 1/00
H01L 21/823475
H01L 27/0629
H04L 2209/12
H04L 9/0866
Applicants: ICTK CO., LTD.
Inventors: Byong Deok Choi
Dong Kyue Kim
Agents: McCoy Russell LLP
Priority Data: 10-2013-0116424 30.09.2013 KR
Title: (EN) Device and method for generating identification key by using semiconductor process
Abstract: front page image
(EN)

Provided are a device and a method for generating an identification key by using a process variation in a semiconductor process. A semiconductor is manufactured by adjusting a gate side edge position of a contact such that a difference between a probability that a gate of a transistor is shorted from a drain or a source by the contact and a probability that the gate is not shorted is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold. When the manufactured semiconductor does not have a separate process, whether there is a short circuit between the gate and the drain or the source is stochastically generated by the process variation, whether there is a short circuit is detected through a reader, and an identification key is provided.
Also published as:
EP3054396WO/2015/046682