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Sovereign Cyber-Physical Hypervisor Platform: Hardened Asymmetric Multiprocessing Co-Design Matrix Framework

Sep 2026 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

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Sovereign Cyber-Physical Hypervisor Platform: Hardened Asymmetric Multiprocessing Co-Design Matrix Framework (v1 / REV14-FROZEN) This repository contains the absolute, production-frozen version 1 (v1) parent codebase for the Sovereign Cyber-Physical Hypervisor, implemented in strict compliance with the SEC-AMP-TRILOGY-SECURE-REV14-FROZEN master specification. The framework is engineered to enforce pure silicon determinism, absolute data integrity, and complete fault isolation across heterogeneous dual-core Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP) infrastructures. It targets mission-critical deployment environments prone to physical vulnerability vectors such as Electromagnetic Fault Injection (EMFI) and electrical voltage transients. This frozen v1 release establishes the uncompromised architectural foundation that will be continued under version 2 (v2) to support downstream child project integration layers. The platform splits execution domains between a high-overhead, non-deterministic primary Application Core (480 MHz ARM Cortex-M7 domain running Linux/RTOS abstractions for optical telemetry and SCADA logging) and an ultra-fast, strictly deterministic Sentinel Core (240 MHz bare-metal ARM Cortex-M4 domain handling real-time control loops and critical fluid line actuation). Key Microarchitectural Hardening Invariants:1. Strict Parallel Harvard Segregation: Instruction text and case targets execute natively inside zero-wait-state Instruction Tightly-Coupled Memory (ITCM) over the I-Code bus, while all static lookup tables, function pointer arrays, mutable tracking matrices, and buffers live strictly within Data Tightly-Coupled Memory (DTCM) to eliminate crossbar cross-contamination.2. Pure Arithmetic Determinism: Enforces strict compile-time soft-float constraints (#pragma GCC poison float double) combined with explicit linker-stage symbol exclusions (*(__aeabi_f*)) to completely paralyze software float-emulation timing jitter loops.3. Asymmetric Mailbox Protection: Communication interfaces are physically air-gapped using separate unidirectional APB peripheral bus structures. Slave Interface A (Application side) is bound to Shareable Normal Non-Cacheable Memory (TEX=001, C=0, B=0, XN=1) to prevent speculative prefetches, while Slave Interface B (Sentinel side) is mapped strictly to Strongly-Ordered Memory (TEX=000, C=0, B=0) to ensure un-buffered immediate register retirement.4. Word-Driven Stride Packings: Telemetry serialization utilizes strict 32-bit word-aligned strides to satisfy peripheral bus alignment restrictions, backed by an atomic four-step read-after-write pipeline register interlock (Atomic Write -> Compiler Fence -> Dummy Read -> Assembly DSB SY/ISB SY Barrier) to eliminate cross-boundary data tearing.5. Branchless Math Engine: Features an un-preemptible supervisor loop running a 7th-order fixed-point Taylor expansion Arrhenius decay engine. Upper and lower saturation clamping limits are resolved via portable, branchless unsigned relational bitmask selections to maintain single-clock execution profiles.6. Automated Disassembly Audit Gating: Includes a target-prefixed automated continuous integration parser (verify_pipeline.py) that evaluates post-link object text segments to mathematically prove the complete absence of non-deterministic conditional branch opcodes (bne, beq, cbz, cbnz) inside verified runtime code boundaries, while accepting deterministic IT blocks. The repository zip payload contains the full, production-tested 15-file blueprint manifest, including the global technical constitution (master_specification.md), the race-condition isolated Makefile build matrix, the target GNU Linker Script (sentinel_flash.ld), and the complete, verified C/Assembly source environments. --- 📋 SUBMISSION METADATA DIRECTIVES [Deposit Parameters]* Version Tag: v1.0.0-frozen* Upload Type: Software* Access Right: Open Access* License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) [Target Keywords]Bare-Metal Hypervisor, Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP), MISRA-C:2012, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Deterministic Execution, Fault-Injection Mitigation, Tightly-Coupled Memory (TCM), High-Assurance Firmware, Harvard Bus Matrix Isolation, Silicon-Determinism. [Target Curation Communities]1. Cyber-Physical Systems Security2. Open-Source Hardware/Software Co-Design3. High-Assurance Firmware --- Licensing & Open-Science Compliance:This archive is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Any derivative works, downstream sub-systems, or secondary version 2 (v2) child projects must inherit these identical legal protection attributes and attribute this parent platform record accordingly. Code Verification Token: [ysD9J5, 0.1.1].

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