A system for coarse grained memory protection in tiny embedded processors

Proceedings - Design Automation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 218-223

  Kumar, Ram ^a   Singhania, Akhilesh ^a   Castner, Andrew ^a   Kohler, Eddie ^a   Srivastava, Mani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Memory protection; Software fault isolation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MICROCONTROLLERS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

MEMORY PROTECTION; PROGRAMMING ERRORS; SOFTWARE FAULT ISOLATION;

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT;

EID: 34547264306     PISSN: 0738100X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DAC.2007.375156     Document Type: Conference Paper

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