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

Author

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

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng. Dept., UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

2-6 June 2003

Firstpage

60

Lastpage

65

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. Acceleration transparency yields software and hardware performance gains of 333×.

Keywords

Java; cryptography; hardware-software codesign; microprocessor chips; Rijndael encryption function; accelerated Java functions; acceleration transparency; biometric signal processing; cryptographic signal processing; design flow; secure embedded system; signal processing acceleration; thumbpod; Acceleration; Biomedical signal processing; Biometrics; Cryptography; Embedded system; Hardware; Java; Performance gain; Signal design; Software performance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Design Automation Conference, 2003. Proceedings

Print_ISBN

1-58113-688-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DAC.2003.1218802

Filename

1218802