Research Summaries

Back CT-T: Collaborative Research: Adaptive Security and Separation in Reconfigurable Hardware

Fiscal Year 2007
Division Graduate School of Operational & Information Sciences
Department Computer Science
Investigator(s) Irvine, Cynthia E.
Sponsor National Science Foundation (NSF)
Summary The goal of this proposal is to enhance the logical structure and internal management of reconfigurable hardware to enforce a dynamic information protection policy with a high degree of assurance. Toward this end, we propose an interdisciplinary approach that takes important new ideas regarding adaptable security and separation kernels and applies them to the control and management of a modern reconfigurable device, the field programmable gate array (FPGA). This research will result in provable and adaptable compartmentalization within reconfigurable devices. The project will be organized into three primary research thrusts: (1) the design of an architecture and methods to control dynamic logic changes and to ensure the secure configuration of logic modules, (2) the design of structures and methods to mediate run-time access to shared resources such as memory, and (3) the design of methods for dynamic policy management of new, controlled, FPGA functionality.
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