RandShift: An Energy-Efficient Fault-Tolerant Method in Secure Nonvolatile Main Memory

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Project Code :TVPGTO396

Objective

The main objective of this paper is to reduce the error rate and power in encrypted data encoded by the Advanced Encryption Standard. This paper is implemented with the randomness feature of AES encryption as well as rotational shift operation to tolerate hard faults in nonvolatile memory cells

Abstract

In this paper, we present a simple, yet energy- and area-efficient method for tolerating the stuck-at faults caused by an endurance issue in secure-resistive main memories. In the proposed method, by employing the random characteristics of the encrypted data encoded by the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) as well as a rotational shift operation, a large number of memory locations with stuck-at faults could be employed for correctly storing the data. The proposed RandShift technique, which is simple and energy efficient due to its one-time recomputation of the AES encryption for each data written to the PCM main memory. Due to the simple hardware implementation of the proposed method, its energy consumption is considerably smaller than that of other recently proposed methods. The fault coverage of the proposed method is similar to that of the existing method. In this article, we present a simple energy-efficient method to tolerate the stuck-at faults in the PCM main memory when encrypted data are stored on it. 

Keywords: Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), Error Correction Code, Rand Shifter, nonvolatile memories

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Specifications

Software Requirements:

  • Xilinx Vivado
  • HDL: Verilog

Hardware Requirements:

  • Microsoft® Windows XP
  • Intel® Pentium® 4 processor or Pentium 4 equivalent with SSE support 
  • 512 MB RAM
  • 100 MB of available disk space

Learning Outcomes

  • Basics of Digital Electronics
  • FPGA design Flow
  • Introduction to Verilog Coding
  • Different modeling styles in Verilog
    • Data Flow modeling
    • Structural modeling
    • Behavioral modeling
    • Mixed level modeling
  • Combinational & Sequential circuits
  • About Non-volatile memories
  • Testing concepts
  • Stuck-at-zero & stuck-at-one faults
  • Knowledge on Advance Encryption Standard
  • Randshift Method
  • Error Correction Code
  • Applications in real time
  • Xilinx Vivado for design and simulation
  • Generation of Netlist
  • Solution providing for real time problems
  • Project Development Skills:
    • Problem Analysis Skills
    • Problem Solving Skills
    • Logical Skills
    • Designing Skills
    • Testing Skills
    • Debugging Skills
    • Presentation Skills
    • Thesis Writing Skills

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