Temperature Dependence of ROPUF on FPGA

This paper continues and extends our previous work introduced in [3], [4], in which we proposed a ring oscillator (RO) based Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) on FPGA. Our approach is able to extract multiple output bits from each RO pair in contrary to the classical approach, where frequencies of ROs are compared. Our original design used asymmetric ROs, i.e. without constrained placement of gates. In this paper, we investigate the behaviour of the proposed ROPUF using symmetric ROs, and compare them against the original approach with asymmetric ROs. The measurement results showed that the ROPUF with symmetric ROs is approximately two times more stable with varying temperature. We have also compared three different methods of information extraction from ROPUF based on frequency measurement. The measured results show that out of these three methods, our one is the most stable against change of temperature. The measurements were performed on Digilent Basys 2 FPGA boards (Xilinx Spartan3E-100 CP132).