ARK: Architecture for Security Resiliency in SoC Designs with Network-on-Chip (NoC) Fabrics
Abstract
Modern SoC designs typically include hundreds of pre-designed and pre-verified intellectual property (IP) cores that communicate over a variety of Network-on-Chip (NoC) fabrics. Unfortunately, neither IPs nor the NoC fabrics can be fully trusted. We address this problem through a novel SoC security architecture for system resiliency even when developed by integration of untrusted components. We focus specifically on vulnerabilities and exploits that target system-level communication among IPs through the NoC. We develop fine-grained policies that enable on-the-fly detection and mitigation of suspicious run-time activity that affect the system-level functionality. Our experiments show that the architecture incurs modest overhead in area, power, and congestion.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 25, 2019
- Accession Number
- AD1075248
Entities
People
- Atul P. Nath
- Sandip Ray
- Srivalli Boddupalli
- Swarup Bhunia
Organizations
- University of Florida