Introduction
Computer security is undeniably important, and as new vulnerabilities are discovered and
exploited, the perceived need for new security solutions grows. "trusted computing"
initiatives propose to solve some of today s security problems through hardware changes
to the personal computer. Changing hardware design isn t inherently suspicious, but the
leading trusted computing proposals have a high cost: they provide security to users
while giving third parties the power to enforce policies on users computers against the
users wishes -- they let others pressure you to hand some control over your PC to
someone else. This is a "feature" ready-made for abuse by software authors who want to
anticompetitively choke off rival software.
It needn t be this way: a straightforward change to the plans of trusted computing vendors
could leave the security benefits intact while ensuring that a PC owner s
This short paper will give you some VHDL code examples that will help you design synchronous circuits that work first time.The philosophy behind Ten-Commandment code is that synthesizers are not to be trusted too much. Most of the code you will see is close to the structural level some more overtly than others.
