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

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. Categories and Subject Descriptors E5 [Case Studies]; E3 [HW/SW Co-Design]: specification, modeling, co-simulation and performance analysis, system-level scheduling and partitioning. General Terms Performance, Design, Experimentation.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: DAC
• Authors: David Hwang, Bo-Cheng Lai, Patrick Schaumont, Kazuo Sakiyama, Yi Fan, Shenglin Yang, Alireza Hodjat, Ingrid Verbauwhede
• Keywords: Acceleration Transparency Yields, DAC 2003, Design Automation, HW/SW Acceleration Transparency, Signal Processing Acceleration