BSEC internal peripheral

1. Article purpose[edit | edit source]

The purpose of this article is to

briefly introduce the BSEC peripheral and its main features
indicate the level of security supported by this hardware block
explain how each instance can be allocated to the three runtime contexts and linked to the corresponding software components
explain, when necessary, how to configure the BSEC peripheral.

2. Peripheral overview[edit | edit source]

The BSEC peripheral is used to control an OTP (one time programmable) fuse box, used for on-chip non-volatile storage for device configuration and security parameters.

2.1. Features[edit | edit source]

Refer to STM32MP15 reference manuals for the complete list of features, and to the software components, introduced below, to see which features are implemented.

2.2. Security support[edit | edit source]

The BSEC is a secure peripheral.

3. Peripheral usage and associated software[edit | edit source]

3.1. Boot time[edit | edit source]

The BSEC is configured at boot time to set up platform security.

3.2. Runtime[edit | edit source]

3.2.1. Overview[edit | edit source]

The BSEC instance is a system peripheral and is controlled by the Arm^® Cortex^®-A7 secure:

Information

BSEC lower OTP access can be made available to the Arm^® Cortex^®-A7 non-secure.
Upper OTP access can be managed as exceptions (in Trusted Boot Chain only, using TF-A), via "secure monitor calls", managed by TF-A or by OP-TEE. Please refer to BSEC device tree configuration for more details.

3.2.2. Software frameworks[edit | edit source]

Internal peripherals software table template

| Security
| BSEC
| OP-TEE BSEC driver
| Linux NVMEM framework
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3.2.3. Peripheral configuration[edit | edit source]

The configuration is based on Device tree, please refer to BSEC device tree configuration article.
It can be applied by the firmware running in a secure context, done in TF-A or in OP-TEE.
It can also be configured by Linux^® kernel, please refer to NVMEM overview article.

3.2.4. Peripheral assignment[edit | edit source]

Internal peripherals assignment table template

| rowspan="1" | Security
| rowspan="1" | BSEC
| BSEC
| ✓
| ✓
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