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rosc_entropy

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Digital entropy source based on on jitter between multiple, digital ring -oscillators. The entropy source is used in the TRNG as one of several -entropy sources feeding the mixer.

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Functionality

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The digital oscillators are created using adders. The carry out from the -adder are inverted and fed back into the adder as carry in. In -combination with operand values we basically get an inverted signal (the -carry out) that toggles reapeatedly. By having the operands externally -defined, synthesis tools in general will not optimize them away.

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The carry out signal is sampled with a clock that toggles at a much -slower rate than the intrinsic toggle rate of the carry out signal. In a -modern FPGA, the toggle rate may be 400+ MHz while the sample rate might -be 10 kHz. This sample time allows the differences in intrinsic toggle -frequency between separate oscillators to drift apart after sampling.

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The entropy source contains 32 separate oscillators. The outputs from -the oscillators are XOR-combined to create a single entropy bit. Entropy -bits are collected into 32-bit words which are provided to entropy -consumers.

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Implementation Results

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The entropy source has been implemented, tested and shown to produce -good quality entropy (using the ent estimation tool etc) in Altera -Cyclone-IV and Cyclone-V devices as well as in Xilinx Spartan-6.

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The Xilinx synthesis tool will try to optimize the combinational loop -away. (More specifically, it claims that the oscillator sample registers -will have a fixed value.). There is therefore an attribute in the source -code to force the tool to preserve the register.

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