Synopsys PUF IP for Automotive Security

Hardware-based Security with PUF Technology

The security IP from Synopsys uses inherently random elements on the device as a physical unclonable function (PUF), which generates the entropy needed for a strong hardware root of trust (RoT). It enables designers to secure their products with internally generated, device-unique cryptographic keys.

The Synopsys PUF technology is widely used to protect MCU, ASIC, SoC and FPGA devices. It is frequently updated with countermeasures to secure PUF key material and sensitive data from invasive and non-invasive attacks.

Synopsys AP PUF IP – SRAM PUF for Automotive Market

Synopsys AP PUF is the world-leading IP that uses standard SRAM as a PUF for hardware-based security. It offers key provisioning, wrapping, and unwrapping to enable secure key storage across the supply chain and for the lifetime of the device. The PUF root key is never stored but re-created from the PUF each time it is needed, offering the highest level of security. A key protected by Synopsys AP PUF IP is integrity protected and can be decrypted solely on the same device where it was created. Synopsys AP PUF IP has been developed following an ISO 26262 functional safety compliant flow and meets the ISO 26262 Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL) B fault metric.

Synopsys PUF FPGA-X – Butterfly PUF

For FPGA architectures for which standard uninitialized SRAM is not available, e.g. AMD/Xilinx FPGAs, a butterfly PUF enables designers to extract a PUF from standard FPGA fabric. This PUF is used to create a high-quality device-unique PUF key. The intrinsic PUF key can be used as a root key for key derivation and key wrapping. It enables designers to create and store an unlimited number of keys and data securely in unprotected NVM on/off chip.

Synopsys PUF FPGA-X is verified on many AMD/Xilinx platforms:

• AMD/Xilinx 6 series: Virtex
• AMD/Xilinx 7 series: Artix, Virtex, Kintex, Zynq
• AMD/Xilinx UltraScale+:  Virtex, Kintex, Zynq