Exploration of uninitialized configuration memory space for intrinsic identification of Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA devices

Authors:
Oliver Sander;Benjamin Glas;Lars Braun;Klaus D. Müller-Glaser;Jürgen Becker
Affiliations:
Institute for Information Processing Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany;Institute for Information Processing Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany;Institute for Information Processing Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany;Institute for Information Processing Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany;Institute for Information Processing Technology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Venue:
International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing - Special issue on Selected Papers from the International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConFig'10)
Year:
2012

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Abstract

SRAM-based fingerprinting uses deviations in power-up behaviour caused by the CMOS fabrication process to identify distinct devices. This method is a promising technique for unique identification of physical devices. In the case of SRAM-based hardware reconfigurable devices such as FPGAs, the integrated SRAMcells are often initialized automatically at power-up, sweeping potential identification data. We demonstrate an approach to utilize unused parts of configuration memory space for device identification. Based on a total of over 200,000 measurements on nine Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs, we show that the retrieved values have promising properties with respect to consistency on one device, variety between different devices, and stability considering temperature variation and aging.