Modern FPGA design methodology can aid engineers in the creation of circuit architectures capable of detecting radiation-induced failures and reconfiguring on-the-fly. However, verification tools are not presently available to validate the hardened design.QuickFlex proven, standardized, system-level… More

The dramatic improvements in tools to reverse engineer facsimiles of application source code from processor-specific executable files, plus highly subsidized adversarial foreign government-funded organizations using these tools, create threats to vital USgovernment and commercial software. To… More

Space and military system designers have a significant and growing problem migrating from system solutions using radiation-hardened components to commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) and "rad-hard by design" (RHBD) components. Current testing solutions are either custom built "one-off" solutions,… More

Sophisticated real-time embedded systems pose a unique challenge to system developers, especially if the system includes a complex mixture of software components and special-purpose hardware, and when the development occurs cooperatively across organizations. QuickFlex, Inc. proposes QuickCode, a… More

The proposed COTS Intelligent Network (COSIN) will be a new, innovative security appliance, or optional PCI-X card, that will detect, defend against, and respond autonomically to tamper events, including address bus leakage, message packet capture, data copying, denial-of-service, man-in-the-middle,… More

The Software Communications Architecture (SCA) builds upon the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), a powerful middleware standard that enables the development of platform-independent, dynamically loadable object-oriented software components. However, the current SCA specification is… More

To address the need to quickly, cost-effectively and reliably develop software to control science instruments deployed on spacecraft, QuickFlex proposes to create a payload control (QuickDirect) software package that can be used by instrument developers as a template for specific missions.… More

The Software Communications Architecture (SCA) holds great promise for advancing standardization and interoperability among both military radios in the DoD Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) program and in software defined radio (SDR) systems in general. However, current SCA core framework… More

CATE (Central Anti-Tamper Engine) is effectively a standardized AT decision engine that can be inserted into any number of AT activities to provide an "off-the-shelf" component for monitoring inputs from the various AT sensors. The inputs, their meaning, and their relationships are unique to each… More

There is an inherent conflict between the goal of high performance networking and secure networking. This conflict is especially due to the fact that attackers are increasingly using application-level attack vectors. Thus, a need exists for strong, low-latency, high-throughput network security… More

Complex wireless ad hoc networks present unique and substantial challenges in the presence of faults, and unlike wire networks, faults are typically transient and quite common. In response to these challenges, QuickFlex, Inc. proposes QuickMANet, a novel fault management, diagnosis, and self-healing… More

Modern sensor technology is capable of detecting miniscule changes in an operating environment, and providing a vast supply of precise data regarding potential causes for alarm. Unfortunately, since many tamper-detection responses involve disabling critical program information, the system designer… More

For NASA and other organizations, development using reconfigurable technologies can be time consuming and difficult, with expensive to over-budget development cycles and longer time-to-deployment. The proposed Q-DeployÂ? Processor and FPGA Rapid-Deployment Platform, with the endorsement of a… More

Modern sensor technology is capable of detecting miniscule changes in an operating environment, and providing a vast supply of precise data regarding potential causes for alarm. Unfortunately, since many tamper-detection responses involve disabling critical program information, the system designer… More