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AffiliationUniversität Ulm
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This work proposes a new method of Physical- Unclonable-Function entropy extraction and for ADC fingerprinting using a DAC’s Intersymbol-Interference. The proposed method can e.g. be implemented as a side-product of a continuous-time Delta-Sigma-Modulator by utiliz- ing ISI of it’s feedback DAC as unique entropy-source. This extends the existing state-of-the-art by extracting more entropy per DAC unit-element. A source coding of the dynamic DAC error estimations is explained which transforms the Gaussian distributed errors into uniform distribution by using multi-valued DSM fingerprints and creating an interval-based symbol sorting. Transistor-level simulations show a superior normalized entropy given by 0.999 for up to a 7-bit extraction with read-out stability given by its Symbol-Error (SE) between < 10−5 for a 3-bit extraction up to 0.1 for 7-bit after correction over temperature and supply-voltage variation.