Abstract:
A counting method and a counter using an integrated circuit memory area, including at least one step of storage of partial values in several words of identical memory sizes, the result of the counting being obtained by arithmetically adding the values contained in the different words.
Abstract:
A counting method and a counter using an integrated circuit memory area, including at least one step of storage of partial values in several words of identical memory sizes, the result of the counting being obtained by arithmetically adding the values contained in the different words.
Abstract:
The automatic control of the execution of a program by a microprocessor, including storing an initial state of a counter before execution of at least one instruction comprising the execution a given number of times of at least one same operation; on each execution of the operation, incrementing or decrementing the counter by a weight assigned to the operation; and at the end of the instruction, comparing the final state of the counter with an estimated value by increasing, respectively decreasing, its initial state by a multiple of the weight assigned to the operation corresponding to the normal number of executions of this operation in the instruction.
Abstract:
A method of derivation, by an electronic circuit, of a first key from a second key, wherein: at least one third key is derived from the second key and is used to derive the first key; and a value of a counter, representative of the number of first keys, conditions the derivation of a new value of the third key.
Abstract:
A method and a circuit of automatic control of the execution of a program by a microprocessor, including: assigning a digital decrement or increment to at least one function of the program; assigning a digital increment, respectively decrement, to at least one section considered as critical as to the program execution and called by the function; setting a counter to a first value; decrementing, respectively incrementing, the counter once per function before a call to a critical section; incrementing, respectively decrementing, the counter on each correct execution of a section; and comparing the current value of the counter with a predetermined critical threshold.
Abstract:
A method and a device for converting a first bus including at least a data wire and a clock wire into a single-wire bus, wherein a data bit of the first bus is converted on half a period of the clock signal for transmission over the second bus, a waiting pattern being placed on the second bus during the other half-period.
Abstract:
A method and a circuit of automatic control of the execution of a program by a microprocessor, including: assigning a digital decrement or increment to at least one function of the program; assigning a digital increment, respectively decrement, to at least one section considered as critical as to the program execution and called by the function; setting a counter to a first value; decrementing, respectively incrementing, the counter once per function before a call to a critical section; incrementing, respectively decrementing, the counter on each correct execution of a section; and comparing the current value of the counter with a predetermined critical threshold.
Abstract:
A method for protecting at least one section of a program executed by a microcontroller, included before execution of the section, decrementing or incrementing at least one first counter and storing its state in a non-volatile memory of the microcontroller; in case of the detection of an attack attempt by the microcontroller, activating a flag in the microcontroller RAM; and at the end of the execution of the program section, checking the flag state.
Abstract:
A method and a circuit for checking data transferred between a circuit and a processing unit, in which: the data originating from the circuit transit through a first buffer element having a size which is a multiple of the size of data to be subsequently delivered over a bus of the processing unit; an address provided by the processing unit for the circuit is temporarily stored in a second element; and the content of the first element is compared with current data originating from the circuit, at least when they correspond to an address of data already present in this first element.
Abstract:
A counter in a non-volatile memory including at least two sub-counters, each counting with a different modulo, an increment of the counter being transferred on a single one of the sub-counters and the sub-counters being incremented sequentially.