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A Flexible and Accurate Energy Model of an Instruction-Set Simulator for Secure Smart Card Software Design

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Integrated Circuit and System Design. Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation (PATMOS 2004)

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Smart cards are mostly used to process and store confidential and secure information. Several attacks based on power consumption analysis are known to retrieve this information. This paper presents the energy model of a cycle-accurate instruction-set simulator for secure software development. The model is designed to decouple instruction and data dependent energy dissipation, which leads to an independent characterization process and allows stepwise model refinement to increase estimation accuracy. The model has been evaluated for a high-performance smart card CPU and an use-case for secure software is given.

This work has been supported by the Austrian government under grant number 806014.

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  1. Institute for Technical Informatics, TU Graz, Inffeldgasse 16/1, 8010, Graz, Austria

    Ulrich Neffe, Klaus Rothbart, Christian Steger & Reinhold Weiss

  2. Philips Austria GmbH Styria, Business Line Identification, Mikronweg 1, 8101, Gratkorn, Austria

    Edgar Rieger & Andreas Muehlberger

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  1. Politecnico di Torino, 10129, Torino, Italy

    Enrico Macii

  2. Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Patras, Greece

    Vassilis Paliouras

  3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

    Odysseas Koufopavlou

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Neffe, U., Rothbart, K., Steger, C., Weiss, R., Rieger, E., Muehlberger, A. (2004). A Flexible and Accurate Energy Model of an Instruction-Set Simulator for Secure Smart Card Software Design. In: Macii, E., Paliouras, V., Koufopavlou, O. (eds) Integrated Circuit and System Design. Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation. PATMOS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3254. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30205-6_51

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