Partial FPGA bitstream encryption enabling hardware DRM in mobile environments

摘要: The concept of digital right management (DRM) has become extremely important in current mobile environments. This paper shows how partial bitstream encryption can allow the secure distribution hardware applications resembling mechanisms traditional software DRM. Building on recent developments towards cores, demonstrates a prototypical implementation user device supporting such mechanisms. prototype extends Android operating system with support for reconfigurability and showcases interplay novel security concepts enabled by DRM, advantages design flow based high-level synthesis, opportunities provided software-rich reconfigurable Systems-on-Chips. Relying this prototype, we also collected extensive quantitative results demonstrating limited overhead incurred architecture.