Rockwell Collins, Inc.

Joseph Kaemmer

John V Thommana

Adriane R Van Auken

Neal J Buchmeyer

Mercer Peirce Richardson

Keith R Bean

Chris K Ridgway

Matthew D Parker

A data radio has an arbitrary number of processors configured to interact with a single cryptographic engine or security module. Hardware strapping allows each card and processor to identify its location in a system. The static region of the field-programmable gate array contains the functionality to manage access to the backplane. Dynamic regions of the field-programmable gate array fabric are used to route the data correctly to and from the security module within a specific application. Software is deployed on any card with a generic load that is agnostic to its location and the hardware self-configures.

Method for cryptographic engine to interface with an arbitrary number of processor cards in a scalable environment

A computing system is disclosed. The computing system includes a computation unit, one or more processors, a volatile memory, and a non-volatile memory communicatively coupled to the one or more processors and having instructions stored thereon, which when executed by the one or more processors, causing the one or more processor to instantiate a container and perform at least one of a volatile memory checking procedure or a non-volatile memory checking procedure. The volatile memory checking procedure includes checking the first physical address space for errors, loading a container into volatile memory containing the first physical address space if an error is determined, rechecking the first physical address space for error, loading the container to a second physical address space and updating a memory management unit if an error in the first physical address space is determined.

Mitigating single-event upsets using containerization

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Cedar Rapids, IA, United States of America

Joseph Kaemmer