Secure Remote Reconfiguration of FPGAs

Dynamically Reconfigurable Architectures

计算机科学;物理学;数学

Nele Mentens ; Jo Vliegen ; An Braeken ; Abdellah Touhafi ; Karel Wouters ; Ingrid Verbauwhede

Others  :  http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2010/2839/pdf/10281.MentensNele.Paper.2839.pdf
PID  :  44968

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

This paper presents a solution for secure remote reconfiguration of FPGAs. Communicating the bitstream has to be done in a secure manner to prevent an attacker from reading or altering the bitstream. We propose a setup in which the FPGA is the single device in the system's zone-of-trust. The result is an FPGA architecture that is divided into a static and a dynamic region. The static region holds the communication, security and reconfiguration facilities, while the dynamic region contains the targeted application.