Pub Date : 2023-11-02DOI: 10.1109/OJCAS.2023.3328871
Mohammad Oveisi;Seyedali Hosseinisangchi;Payam Heydari
A thorough investigation of major contributors to out-of-band emission (OOBE) in transmitters (TXs) utilizing digital modulation schemes is provided. Specifically, the paper delves into the detrimental effects of phase noise of the local oscillator (LO), typically realized using a phase-locked loop (PLL), on the OOBE phenomenon. Furthermore, the effects of the circuit nonlinearity in a TX, widely recognized as a primary contributor to spectral regrowth and elevated levels of OOBE, are investigated. Additionally, the impact of filtering and bandwidth (BW) limitation on OOBE is taken into account. Comprehensive simulations verify the accuracy of the analytical study. The results provided throughout this paper can be used to determine the linearity and phase noise requirements of different blocks, such as PLL and power amplifier (PA) within a TX chain to design a system complying with a specific mask emission dictated by a particular standard.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-04DOI: 10.1109/OJCAS.2023.3302254
Archisman Ghosh;Debayan Das;Shreyas Sen
Mathematically secure cryptographic algorithms leak significant side-channel information through their power supplies when implemented on a physical platform. These side-channel leakages can be exploited by an attacker to extract the secret key of an embedded device. The existing state-of-the-art countermeasures mainly focus on power balancing, gate-level masking, or signal-to-noise (SNR) reduction using noise injection and signature attenuation, all of which suffer either from the limitations of high power/area overheads, throughput degradation or are not synthesizable. In this article, we propose a generic low-overhead digital-friendly power SCA countermeasure utilizing a physical Time-Varying Transfer Function (TVTF) by randomly shuffling distributed switched capacitors to significantly obfuscate the traces in the time domain. We evaluate our proposed technique utilizing a MATLAB-based system-level simulation. Finally, we implement a 65nm CMOS prototype IC and evaluate our technique against power side-channel attacks (SCA). System-level simulation results of the TVTF-AES show $sim 5000times $