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of_sec_pfr

Platform firmware resilience controller

Maturity plannedTargets FPGA + ASICDifficulty HardPriority 2

SPI flash interposer that filters writes, verifies firmware images before boot and restores a recovery image on corruption.

Planned. This block is specified in the catalog with its interfaces and targets. No implementation exists yet; the skeleton command below generates a lint-clean shell with its ports and registers.

Interfaces

PortDirectionKindWidthNotes
ctrlin/outAPB control bus32Control and status registers, including ID, VERSION and STATUS
irqoutinterrupt1Interrupt request
host_spiinparallel6 
flash_spioutparallel6 

Standards

  • NIST SP 800-193

More in firmware_integrity

IDBlockMaturity
of_sec_fw_monitorRuntime firmware integrity monitorplanned
of_sec_cfi_monitorControl-flow integrity monitorplanned