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    Lattice-Based Encryption Schemes and its Applications to Homomorphic Encryption
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12) Bin Ahmad Shahrir, Ahmad Faris Durrani ; Pan, Leyan ; Hutto, Kevin ; Mooney, Vincent John, III
    Homomorphic encryption is a type of encryption that allows performing operations on the ciphertext without having access to the plaintext. While the algorithm is still not efficient enough for practical applications, homomorphic encryption has potential in many areas such as voting, storage of sensitive personal information, and analyzing demo-graphical data. In 2009, Gentry proposed the first plausible algorithm for fully homomorphic encryption, and various improvements have been built upon this result, significantly increasing the efficiency of homomorphic encryption. In Gentry’s original implementation, lattice-based cryptography is used as a basis of the Homomorphic encryption scheme. Lattice-based cryptography still lies at the heart of many fully homomorphic encryption schemes. In this report, we build on previous VIP works and illustrate various lattice-based encryption schemes, and briefly describe how Gentry used lattice-based cryptography to construct the first fully homomorphic encryption scheme. In addition, this sub-team hopes the incoming VIP sub-teams would make use of this report and expand upon our research into homomorphic encryption.
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    The Sleepy Keeper Approach: Methodology, Layout and Power Results for a 4-bit Adder
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006) Kim, Se Hun ; Mooney, Vincent John, III
    For the most recent CMOS feature sizes (e.g., 90nm and 65nm), leakage power dissipation has become an overriding concern for VLSI circuit designers. ITRS reports that leakage power dissipation may come to dominate total power consumption [1]. We propose a novel approach, named "sleepy keeper", which reduces leakage current while saving exact logic state. Sleepy keeper uses traditional sleep transistors plus two additional transistors - driven by a gate's already calculated output - to save state during sleep mode. Dual Vth values can be applied to sleepy keeper in order to dramatically reduce subthreshold leakage current. In short, like the sleepy stack approach, sleepy keeper achieves leakage power reduction equivalent to the sleep and zigzag approaches but with the advantage of maintaining exact logic state (instead of destroying the logic state when sleep mode is entered). Based on experiments with a 4-bit adder circuit, sleepy keeper approach achieves up to 48% less ! delay and 49% less area than the sleepy stack approach. Unfortunately, sleepy keeper causes additional dynamic power consumption, approximately 21% more than the base case (no sleep transistors used at all). However, for applications spending the vast majority of time in sleep or standby mode while also requiring low area, high performance and maintenance of exact logic state, the sleepy keeper approach provides a new weapon in a VLSI designer's arsenal.
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    Pareto Points in SRAM Design Using the Sleepy Stack Approach
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005) Park, Jun Cheol ; Mooney, Vincent John, III
    Leakage power consumption of current CMOS technology is already a great challenge. ITRS projects that leakage power consumption may come to dominate total chip power consumption as the technology feature size shrinks. Leakage is a serious problem particularly for SRAM which occupies large transistor count in most state-of-the-art chip designs. We propose a novel ultra-low leakage SRAM design which we call "sleepy stack SRAM." Unlike many other previous approaches, sleepy stack SRAM can retain logic state during sleep mode, which is crucial for a memory element. Compared to the best alternative we could find, a 6T SRAM cell with high-V[subscript th] transistors, the sleepy stack SRAM cell with 1.5xV[subscript th] at 110-degree C achieves more than 5X leakage power reduction at a cost of 31% delay increase and 113% area increase. Alternatively, by widening wordline pass transistors, the sleepy stack SRAM cell can match the delay of the high-V[subscript th] 6T SRAM and still achieve 2.5X leakage power reduction at a cost of a 139% area penalty.
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    Timing Analysis for Preemptive Multi-tasking Real-Time Systems with Caches
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004) Tan, Yudong ; Mooney, Vincent John, III
    In this paper, we propose an approach to estimate the Worst Case Response Time (WCRT) of each task in a preemptive multi-tasking single-processor real-time system with an L1 cache. The approach combines inter-task cache eviction analysis and intra-task cache access analysis to estimate the number of cache lines that can possibly be evicted by the preempting task and also be accessed again by the preempted task after preemptions (thus requiring the preempted task to reload the cache line(s)). This cache reload delay caused by preempting tasks is then incorporated into WCRT analysis. Two sets of applications are used to test our approach. Each set of applications contains three tasks. The experimental results show that our approach can tighten the WCRT estimate by 38% (1.6X) to 56% (2.3X) over prior state-of-the-art.
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    Loss-Tolerant and Secure Embedded Computing via Inscrutable Instruction-Set Architectures (I²SA)
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004) Mooney, Vincent John, III ; Palem, Krishna V. ; Wunderlich, Richard B.
    In short, we examine secure computing where a microprocessor reads, writes and executes operations ideally in an inscrutable domain. The goal is to provide methods and implementations for computation where data never leave the inscrutable domain in which they reside; the intended effect is twofold. The first intended effect is that any transmissions between computing media using our approach would be unbreakable in any reasonable amount of time; i.e., intercepted instructions and/or data would be meaningless to the unauthorized interceptor. The second intended effect is that, as a result of embedded computing platforms realized using inscrutable computing elements, any loss of equipment utilizing such computing hardware would not be very meaningful to the recoverer: we refer to this as loss tolerance.
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    Cache-Related Timing Analysis for Multi-tasking Real-Time Systems with Nested Preemptions
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004) Tan, Yudong ; Mooney, Vincent John, III
    In this paper, we propose an approach to estimate the Worst Case Response Time (WCRT) of each task in a preemptive multi-tasking single-processor real-time system utilizing an L1 cache. The approach combines inter-task cache eviction analysis and intra-task cache access analysis to estimate the number of cache lines that can possibly be evicted by the preempting task and also be accessed again by the preempted task after preemptions (thus requiring the preempted task to reload the cache line(s)). This cache reload delay caused by preempting task(s) is then incorporated into WCRT analysis. Two sets of applications are used to test our approach. Each set of applications contains three tasks. The experimental results show that our approach can tighten the WCRT estimate by up to 32% (1.4X) over prior state-of-the-art.
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    Some Layouts Using the Sleepy Stack Approach
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004) Pfeiffenberger, Philipp ; Park, Jun Cheol ; Mooney, Vincent John, III
    This technical report elaborates on the methodology and findings presented in “Sleepy Stack Reduction of Leakage Power” by J.C. Park, V. J. Mooney III and P. Pfeiffenberger [1]. The scope of this report includes test procedures and data on delay, dynamic and static power for all considered approaches and implementations as well as schematics and layouts for all considered approaches and implementations.
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    An O(NIN(M,N)) Parallel Deadlock Detection Algorithm
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003) Lee, Jaehwan ; Mooney, Vincent John, III
    This paper presents a novel Parallel Deadlock Detection Algorithm (PDDA) and its hardware implementation, Deadlock Detection Unit (DDU). PDDA uses simple boolean representations of request, grant and no activity so that the hardware implementation of PDDA becomes easier and operates faster. We prove that the DDU has a worst-case run-time of 2 x min(m, n) - O(min(m,n)), where m is the number of resources and n is the number of processes. Previous algorithms in software, by contrast, have O(m x n) run-time complexity. We also prove the correctness of PDDA and the DDU. The DDU reduces deadlock detection time by 99.9%, (i.e., 1000X) or more compared to software implementations of deadlock detection algorithms. An experiment involving a practical situation that employs the DDU showed that the time measured from application initialization to deadlock detection was reduced by 46% compared to detecting deadlock in software.
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    Golay and Wavelet Error Control Codes in VLSI
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003) Balasundaram, Arunkumar ; Pereira, Angelo W. D. ; Park, Jun Cheol ; Mooney, Vincent John, III
    This technical report describes AGNI (meaning Fire in Sanskrit) – a VLSI chip to implement error control codes. The chip was initially conceived and designed as part of a Georgia Tech Cutting Edge Research Grant. However, this chip implementation of error control codes has been undertaken as a part of the ECE 6130 course taught in Spring 2002 by Dr. John Uyemura, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. Two coders have been implemented: a (12, 6, 4) wavelet encoder/decoder and a (24, 12, 8) golay encoder/decoder, where the (N, M, d) nomenclature stands for (N=encoded length, M=message length, d=hamming distance). These codes have a correctable limit of one bit error and three bit errors, respectively. The following section presents the encoding/decoding functionality of the chip in more detail. This project could potentially feed a future project to incorporate the chip into a System-ona- Package (SoP). It is expected that the chip would function as a high-speed error encoder/decoder for Radio Frequency (RF) applications.
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    Atalanta: A New Multiprocessor RTOS Kernel for System-on-a-Chip Applications
    (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2002) Sun, Di-Shi ; Blough, Douglas M. ; Mooney, Vincent John, III
    This paper introduces a new multiprocessor real-time operating system (RTOS) kernel that is designed as a software platform for System-On-Chip (SoC) applications and hardware/software codesign research purposes. This multiprocessor RTOS kernel has the key features of an RTOS, such as multitasking capabilities, event-driven priority-based preemptive scheduling; and interprocess communication and synchronization. Atalanta has some features important for SoC applications, such as a small, compact, deterministic, modular and library-based architecture. Atalanta also supports some special features such as priority inheritance, and user configurability. Atalanta supports multiple processors with synchronization based on atomic read-modify-write operations.