Shift-Left Trust: Extending Virtual Development to Embedded Trust Validation

Virtual development has transformed embedded software engineering by enabling development, integration, debugging, and functional validation before physical hardware is available. Yet critical trust functions, including secure boot, firmware integrity, root-of-trust enforcement, HSM services, protected memory, and provisioning, are often validated much later during hardware integration.

This white paper explores how Shift-Left Trust extends virtual development to embedded trust validation, allowing security functionality to be exercised earlier alongside the software it protects. Learn how the OmniTrust embedded trust validation, virtual platforms for Infineon MCUs, and Synopsys Virtualizer™ and enable software, functional, and trust validation to progress within a shared virtual development environment.
 

What You Will Learn
 

• How to shift embedded trust validation left to validate critical security functionality before physical hardware is available.
• How virtual development improves visibility and testability for secure boot, firmware integrity, root-of-trust behavior, HSM services, protected memory, and provisioning flows.
• How OmniTrust, Infineon, and Synopsys enable an integrated approach that brings software, functional, and trust validation onto a shared virtual development schedule.