Die anti-tampering sensor

Details Die anti-tampering sensor Die anti-tampering sensor

2006-10-10

2006-10-10

Nguyen, Phung T. (Department: 2612)

Communications: electrical

Condition responsive indicating system

Specific condition

C340S657000, C340S660000, C174S050000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07119703

ABSTRACT:
This sensor circuit and method for defending against tampering with an integrated circuit die uses metal wire loops to protect the circuitry. In addition, these metal wire loops have several via pairs along its length. One of the vias of the via pair goes to a NAND gate which detects a break in a section of a metal wire loop. A second via of the via pair is used to periodically discharge a metal wire loop to remove residual charge, in preparation for charging the metal wire loop and detecting any uncharged section. A given integrated circuit can have one or more metal wire loops on top of the circuitry to be protected. Each metal wire loop has one or more NAND gates. These outputs of the NAND gates can be fed into OR gates to produce an overall signal which activates an alarm or other security action such as erasure of electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM).

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