A new fault coverage test pattern generator using a linear feedback shift register (LFSR) called FC-LFSR can perform fault analysis and reduce the power of a circuit during test by generating three intermediate patterns between the random patterns by reducing the hardware utilization. The goal of having intermediate patterns is to reduce the transitional activities of Primary Inputs (PI) which ...

Scan and ring schemes of the pseudo-ring memory selftesting are investigated. Both schemes are based on emulation of the linear or nonlinear feedback shift register by memory itself. Peculiarities of the pseudo-ring schemes implementation for multi-port and embedded memories, and for register file are described. It is shown that only small additional logic is required and allows microcontroller...

LFSR (Linear Feedback Shift Register) is commonly employed in various cryptography applications to generate pseudo-random numbers. The overall number of random state produced by the LFSR is determined by the feedback polynomial. LFSR is a shift register in which some of their outputs are taken in exclusive-OR format that forms the feedback path. So it capable to generate maximum of 2-1 random s...

In [3], we have introduced vectorial conception of FCSR’s in Fibonacci mode. This conception allows us to easily analyze FCSR’s over binary finite fields F2n for n ≥ 2. In [4], we describe and study the corresponding Galois mode and use it to design a new stream cipher. In this paper, we introduce the Ring mode for vectorial FCSR, explain the analysis of such Feedback registers and illustrate w...

A general framework for the design of feedback registers based on algebra over complete rings is described. These registers generalize linear feedback shift registers and feedback with carry shift registers. Basic properties of the output sequences are studied: relations to the algebra of the underlying ring; synthesis of the register from the sequence (which has implications for cryptanalysis)...

Various measures of security of stream ciphers have been studied that are based on the problem of finding a minimum size generator for the keystream in some special class of generators. These include linear and p-adic spans, as well as π-adic span, which is based on a choice of an element π in a finite extension of the integers. The corresponding sequence generators are known as linear feedback...

Reuse of design or hardware components has become Essential to meet shrinking time-to-market and more Integration on a single chip as per the customer’s specifications at low cost. Circuit components in electronic form and hardware components are reused, and these constitute Intellectual Property (IP) core. In order to ensure trustworthy yet leakageproof public verification based on the marks h...

The main aim of this chapter is to provide a security evaluation method based on fuzzy logic “for a pseudo-random sequences used (mainly) in stream cipher systems. The designed Fuzzy rules consider two main parameters, which are the length of the maximum period of the key sequence obtained from Linear Feedback Shift Register (LFSR) and the entropy of the result in sequences obtained from differ...