Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus and method for software enabled access to protected hardware resources
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Application No.: US14630554Application Date: 2015-02-24
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Publication No.: US09729320B2Publication Date: 2017-08-08
- Inventor: Amer Haider , Muhammad Raghib Hussain , Richard Eugene Kessler
- Applicant: Cavium, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Cavium, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cavium, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Cooley LLP
- Main IPC: G06F1/26
- IPC: G06F1/26 ; G06F11/00 ; G08B13/00 ; G08B21/00 ; G08B29/00 ; H04L9/08 ; G06F21/72 ; G06F21/71 ; G06F21/70

Abstract:
A semiconductor includes a set of protected hardware resources, where at least one protected hardware resource stores a secure key. The semiconductor also includes a computation kernel and a memory to store a resource enablement module executed by the computation kernel. The resource enablement module selectively enables a protected hardware resource in response to a delivered key corresponding to the secure key.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150242655A1 Apparatus and Method for Software Enabled Access to Protected Hardware Resources Public/Granted day:2015-08-27
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