HW-based Architecture for Runtime Verification of Embedded Software on SOPC systems
Abstract
Runtime verification provides a theoretical proved
framework to synthesize monitors from formal specifications.
At runtime, these monitors can be used to check that the
execution of the system does not violate a security policy or
a safety property. In this paper, we focus on the runtime
verification of safety properties of real-time embedded software.
For these systems, it must be ensured that monitoring does not
jeopardize the scheduling. To do so, we use a hybrid hardwaresoftware
approach in the context of System-on-Programmable-
Chip. A minimal instrumentation is added to the software to
extract the execution trace. The verification is performed by
hardware monitors on the FPGA. This implementation makes
it possible to obtain a temporal overhead almost as low as
a hardware implementation while allowing the use of efficient
off-the-shelf platforms. The paper describes the architecture, its
implementation, and shows results on a realistic case study.