Implementation of a reconfigurable data protection controller on NoC system

This paper presents a reconfigurable data protection controller (DPC) so as to eliminate the security threats against network-on-chip (NoC) system. The proposed DPC can terminate the illegal accesses to the shared-memory of NoC system before the links to target location have been established, thus greatly save link resource and energy. Moreover, according to the implementation results based on SMIC 0.13 um CMOS technology, the DPC only slightly increases the hardware cost of NoC infrastructure. Indeed, it is also a low overhead solution compared with previous related works.