Daniele Fronte

Atmel - Secure Products, Marseilles (FRA) Oct 2004 - Dec 2007
Aim: Conception and design of a reconfigurable crypto-processor
Activities and tools:
• Digital design of the cryptographic algorithms:
- AES (Verilog, C, SystemC), DES (Verilog), SHA-256 (Verilog)
• Implementation of a reconfigurable crypto-processor (Verilog)
• Flow of conception:
- Register Transfer Language implementation (Verilog, SystemVerilog): Vim
editor
- simulation: Mentor ModelSim, GTKWave, SimVision
- synthesis: Xilinx ISE, Mentor Precision, Sinopsys Design Compiler
- place and route: Xilinx ISE
- test on FPGA: Xilinx Virtex II FPGA on Voyager Platform
• microprocessor ARM 7 programming (ARM assembler): ARM Developer
Suite
• R&D of secure systems:
- Smart–Cards
- Systolic crypto–processors

Sector: Electronics and microelectronics

Aim: Conception of digital integrated circuits (VHDL)
Tools: Cadence nclaunch, SimVision, Mentor ModelSim

Sector: Teaching

Aim: Proposing new Processor Architecture to Secure Data Transfers
Activities and tools:
• Digital design of a secure Direct Memory Access (VHDL)
• Simulation: Cadence nclaunch, SimVision
• Processors: ARM and XiRisc microprocessors
• R&D of Secure Systems:
- Secure Systems
- Trusted Platform Modules

Sector: Electronics and microelectronics

Aim: Development of software to detect particles on the images of filters of the
rinsing water
Activities and tools:
• R&D of image analysis
• Language: Visual C++
• Libraries: Microsoft Foundation Class, OpenCV, OpenGL
• Tool: Microsoft Visual Studio