Security, Reliability and Test Aspects of the RISC-V Ecosystem
Jaume Abella, Sergi Alcaide, Jens Anders, Francisco Bas, Steffen Becker, Elke De Mulder, Nourhan Elhamawy, Frank K. Gürkaynak, Helena Handschuh, Carles Hernández, Mike Hutter, Leonidas Kosmidis, Ilia Polian, Matthias Sauer, Stefan Wagner, Francesco Regazzoni · 2021
RISC-V has emerged as a viable solution on academia and industry. However, to use open source hardware for safety-critical applications, we need a deep understanding of the way in which well established mechanisms for testing and reliability could be integrated and deployed on the RISC-V ecosystem, and we need a clear knowledge on how such an ecosystem can be leveraged to improve security. This paper includes four contributions presenting the potential of RISC-V in security research, the way in which RISC-V can be hardened against power analysis attacks, how to implement, using RISC-V, software and hardware/software solutions for dual core lock step, and how to perform system-level testing in the RISC-V ecosystem.