Malware-resistant obfuscated computer hardware for reconfigurable hardware devices and methods thereof

Abstract

A computer device including a computing engine having a plurality of processor cores configured to simultaneously execute identical sets of processor-executable instructions, where each of the processor cores includes different instruction code assignments, and a malware monitoring and remediation component that detects presence of malware when instruction register values from a predetermined number of processor cores are identical during an instruction cycle. In various embodiments, the computer device may be an 'edge' computer deployed in military or other highly-sensitive environments. The computing engine may be implemented using one or more field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).