Field Stripping a Weapons System: Building a Trustworthy Computer

Abstract

Contents include: Field Stripping: What About Modern Weapons Systems?; Hardware Attack Surface; Field Stripping a Computer; Hardware Development and Compilation Stages; ASICs vs. FPGAs; Anchoring Trust for Fielded Systems; Bootstrapping a Trustworthy RISC-V Cleanroom System; LiteX + Rocket 64-bit FPGA-based Linux Computer

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2019
Accession Number
AD1118552

Entities

People

  • Gabriel L. Somlo

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

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Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

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  • Application-Specific Integrated Circuits
  • Compilers
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  • Computers
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  • Computer science
  • Physics

Readers

  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering
  • Nanofabrication and Microfabrication.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.