Local and Direct Power Injection on CMOS Integrated Circuits

Philippe Maurine (1) , François Poucheret (2) , Karim Tobich (2, 3) , Mathieu Lisart (4) , Bruno Robisson (5, 6, 7) , Laurent Chusseau (8, 9)

1 SysMIC - Conception et Test de Systèmes MICroélectroniques
2 LIRMM - Laboratoire d'Informatique de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier
3 STMicroelectronics
4 ST-CROLLES - STMicroelectronics [Crolles]
5 CEA-LETI - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives - Laboratoire d'Electronique et de Technologie de l'Information
6 CMP-ENSMSE - Centre Microélectronique de Provence - Site Georges Charpak (CMP-GC)
7 SAS-ENSMSE - Département Systèmes et Architectures Sécurisés
8 IES - Institut d’Electronique et des Systèmes
9 RADIAC - Radiations et composants

The paper aims at demonstrating experimentally that the tiny ElectroMagnetic (EM) coupling between the tip end of a micro-antenna is su cient to locally and directly inject power into CMOS Integrated Circuits (IC). More precisely, experimental results show that such electrical couplings are sufficient to disturb, with and without removing the IC package, the behavior of 90nm CMOS Ring Oscillators; a representative structure of CMOS logic but also a constituting element ,of some True Random Number Generators (TRNGs) or clock generator.

Mots clés: CMOS IC; EM Injection; Ring Oscillator; TNRG

Domaines: Electromagnétisme; Electronique; Micro et nanotechnologies/Microélectronique

Philippe Maurine, François Poucheret, Karim Tobich, Mathieu Lisart, Bruno Robisson, et al.. Local and Direct Power Injection on CMOS Integrated Circuits. FDTC'2011: Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography, Sep 2011, Nara, Japan. pp.100-104, ⟨10.1109/FDTC.2011.18⟩. ⟨lirmm-00607868⟩