A high speed truly IC random number source for Smart Card microcontrollers

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 239-242

  Bucci, M ^a   Germani, L ^a   Luzzi, R ^b   Tommasino, P ^b   Triftlettv, A ^b   Varanonuov, M ^b  

^a Rome CryptoDesign Center   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARD MICROCONTROLLERS; CMOS PROCESSS; DIRECT AMPLIFICATION; HIGH SPEED; HIGH SPEED IC; LOW AREA; OUTPUT DATA; RANDOM BEHAVIOR; RANDOM NUMBERS; STATISTICAL QUALITY;

AMPLIFICATION; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROCONTROLLERS; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION; SMART CARDS;

DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERSION;

EID: 4344610621     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICECS.2002.1045378     Document Type: Conference Paper

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