Usefulness and effectiveness of HW and SW protection mechanisms in a processor-based system

Pierre Vanhauwaert (1) , Michele Portolan (1) , Régis Leveugle (1) , P. Roche (2)

1 TIMA - Techniques de l'Informatique et de la Microélectronique pour l'Architecture des systèmes intégrés
2 ST-CROLLES - STMicroelectronics [Crolles]

Fault-injection based dependability analysis has proved to be an efficient mean to predict the behavior of a circuit in presence of faults. Emulation-based approaches enable fast and flexible analyses of significant designs such as processors running significant application software. This paper presents the results obtained with an encryption application and questions the usefulness and the effectiveness of detection mechanisms in both hardware and software.

Mots clés: HW/SW architecture

Domaines: Micro et nanotechnologies/Microélectronique

Pierre Vanhauwaert, Michele Portolan, Régis Leveugle, P. Roche. Usefulness and effectiveness of HW and SW protection mechanisms in a processor-based system. IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS'08), Sep 2008, Saint Julians, Malta. pp.113-116. ⟨hal-00322962⟩