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System and method for execution of a secured environment initialization instruction

  • US 9,990,208 B2
  • Filed: 01/10/2017
  • Issued: 06/05/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2002
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system on a chip (SoC) comprising:

  • a processor including;

    a trusted memory of the processor to support secure initialization operations,secure initialization logic of the processor to establish a root of trust for a secure execution environment,execution logic of the processor to execute secure initialization program code within the secure execution environment, at least a portion of the secure initialization program code to be copied into the trusted memory,the execution logic to validate the secure initialization program code prior to execution,the execution logic to validate a virtual machine monitor (VMM) and copy the VMM to a trusted system memory area within the secure execution environment, andwherein the execution logic includes one or more cores to execute one or more threads; and

    a memory controller to couple the processor to a system memory;

    the processor and the memory controller on a single semiconductor die.

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