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Have another circuit on-chip which is more sensitive to glitches than the CPU. Whenever that circuit detects a glitch in the clock, the power supply, the reset
by pifm_guy 4y ago
Have another circuit on-chip which is more sensitive to glitches than the CPU.
Whenever that circuit detects a glitch in the clock, the power supply, the reset line, electric fields or magnetic fields, it halts the CPU until the whole system is reset.
Not very hard to build - I don't know why every chip doesn't include it by default. As well as protecting against deliberate attacks, it would also protect against accidentally running a chip out of spec - for example not having decoupling capacitors on the power supply, causing intermittent behaviour.
- thrtythreeforty 4y agoIt's often called "brown out reset." They are fiddly and frequently get disabled because they're in the way of development.