Architectural State Exploration
ConceptArchitectural state exploration is the hardware-fuzzing objective of driving a device under test (DUT) into deeper, less-reached internal architectural states so that coverage and vulnerability discovery improve. In GoldenFuzz, this is accelerated by fuzzing a fast, ISA-compliant Golden Reference Model first and by using feedback from both high- and low-coverage samples to improve state exploration.
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Architectural state exploration is a hardware-fuzzing goal focused on reaching deep architectural states in the device under test (DUT) so that coverage increases and vulnerabilities can be discovered.
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1 connectionsGoldenFuzz accelerates deep architectural exploration on the DUT.
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[1] GoldenFuzz uses a fast, ISA-compliant Golden Reference Model as a digital twin of the DUT to enable rapid, low-cost test case refinement and accelerate deep architectural exploration and vulnerability discovery on the DUT. GoldenFuzz (NDSS paper page) / GoldenFuzz: Generative Golden Reference Hardware Fuzzing
[2] A feedback-driven mechanism leveraging both high-coverage and low-coverage samples further enhances GoldenFuzz's capability in hardware state exploration. GoldenFuzz (NDSS paper page) / GoldenFuzz: Generative Golden Reference Hardware Fuzzing
[3] GoldenFuzz iteratively constructs test cases by concatenating carefully chosen instruction blocks that balance subtle inter- and intra-instruction quality. GoldenFuzz (NDSS paper page) / GoldenFuzz: Generative Golden Reference Hardware Fuzzing