Design flow for HW / SW acceleration transparency in the thumbpod secure embedded system

  • Authors:
  • David Hwang;Bo-Cheng Lai;Patrick Schaumont;Kazuo Sakiyama;Yi Fan;Shenglin Yang;Alireza Hodjat;Ingrid Verbauwhede

  • Affiliations:
  • UCLA;UCLA;UCLA;UCLA;UCLA;UCLA;UCLA;UCLA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 40th annual Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper describes a case study and design flow of a secure embedded system called ThumbPod, which uses cryptographic and biometric signal processing acceleration. It presents the concept of HW/SW acceleration transparency, a systematic method to accelerate Java functions in both software and hardware. An example of acceleration transparency for a Rijndael encryption function is presented. The embedded prototype hardware platform is also described. Acceleration transparency yields software and hardware performance gains of 333X.