Secure Extreme Environment Embedded Computing LDRD
This work will investigate a new approach to introducing faults and monitoring their effects on RISC-V, an open-source processor. It will also provide new metrics for determining the vulnerability of architectural registers and components and offer suggestions for hardening those components. The result is a better understanding of how faults propagate and how to protect NC State's processor architecture from them.
Sponsor
National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC. (Sandia National Laboratories)
The grant—running from March 15, 2022 to September 30, 2022—is for a total of $29,995.
Principle Investigators
Amro Awad
Eric Rotenberg
More Details
The work will explore a novel framework for injecting faults and tracking fault propagation effects on open-source RISC-V processors. Also, exploring new metrics to describe vulnerable architectural registers and components, and recommendations for hardening.