Counterfeiting of an Integrated Circuit (IC) has become a significant concern for electronics manufacturers, system integrators, and end users. It is necessary to find a robust implementation that is efficient, low cost, and noninvasive in detection and avoidance of ICs counterfeiting. In this paper, we introduce the concept of using a guided radiofrequency (RF) wave technique to authenticate ICs. The approach discussed in this work highlights the use of electromagnetic (EM)/radiofrequency (RF) response that has been further evaluated to assign fingerprint or signature of ICs for the purpose of authentication. Our approach is to use EM/RF guided wave to sense the response of the ICs, extract the manufacturing-based process variation of an IC and finally generate identifier or signature of that IC. As a proof-of-concept, we performed experiments over different field-programmable gate array (FPGA) boards of the same family. The post-processing technique was applied on the measurement results to statistically quantify the error probability of the authentication technique.

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用于IC验证的引导电磁波技术。

伪造集成电路（IC）已成为电子制造商，系统集成商和最终用户的主要关注点。有必要找到一种鲁棒的实现方案，该实现方案应具有高效，低成本且在检测和避免IC伪造方面具有非侵入性。在本文中，我们介绍了使用引导射频（RF）波技术来验证IC的概念。这项工作中讨论的方法着重介绍了电磁（EM）/射频（RF）响应的使用，已对其进行了进一步评估，以分配IC的指纹或签名以进行身份​​验证。我们的方法是使用EM / RF导波感应IC的响应，提取IC的基于制造工艺的变化，最后生成该IC的标识符或签名。作为概念证明，我们在相同系列的不同现场可编程门阵列（FPGA）板上进行了实验。将后处理技术应用于测量结果，以统计学方式量化认证技术的错误概率。