Introduction to SoC Security Fundamentals; SoC Security Tutorial
SoC Security Flow Chart
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SoC Security Flow Chart

Having learned about SoC security Fundamentals, SoC Root of Trust and SoC chain of trust and Access Protection  in previous sections, let us try to establish a SoC security Flow Steps.
  1. SoC Powers Up
  2. Securest software in ROM starts executing.
  3. ROM Firmware 'authenticates' the External Flash device, makes sure it is interacting with genuine Flash device.
  4. ROM firmware then fetches the code from External Flash.
  5. The external Flash code is decrypted using either ROM firmware itself or it uses some 'Hardware Accelerator' blocks on the SoC to decrypt it.
  6. The decrypted code is then put in the system RAM, assuming no XIP. (Execute In Place)
  7. If XIP is required, then the code is decrypted in-line, 1 block at a time before execution.
  8. When the code copying is done into the RAM in case of No XIP, the ROM code then jumps to RAM code.
  9. The code (either XIP or running from RAM) programs the MPU/SAU (if MPU/SAU are used or opted in)
  10. The code (either XIP or running from RAM) programs the other access protection hardware blocks on the SoC.
  11. The SoC is now secured.
  12. Application code starts execution on the secured SoC.
  13. Each application that runs on the SoC has now only limited rights, in terms of what it can or can-not do.

This is the conclusion of basic SoC Security Fundamentals. The Next Section takes the user to ARM Cortex-M Security Fundamentals. The first chapter is on Privilege/Non-Privilege levels on ARM Cortex M0+, M3/M4, M7.



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