RTL-Arrow: Hardware-to-Cloud Bridge

Computer Science > Cryptography and Security [Submitted on 11 Jun 2026] RTL-Arrow: Hardware-to-Cloud Bridge Calvin Deutschbein, Jimmy Ostler Hardware Security at Willamette is a Willamette University affiliated research group studying the hardware-software interface of security critical services. Within our program, we noticed many researchers spent considerable development time learning to understand and manually parse traces-of-execution of hardware designs which are used to identifying whether vulnerabilities or weaknesses arise at the hardware, software, or interface level. We propose the "RTL-Arrow" framework, a framework to compile performant binaries which bridge the hardware/data divide. We translate the outputs of simulated hardware execution, as "value change dumps" into modern data science workflows as cloud-ready "dataframes", to standardize program verification across the hardware and software levels. We describe our approach, its benefits, and lessons learned from the process of packaging and distributing these libraries for our security research program. Comments: Source is .docx. 10 pages. 2 figures. Conference talk at this https URL Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC) Cite as: arXiv:2606.13865 [cs.CR]   (or arXiv:2606.13865v1 [cs.CR] for this version)   https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.13865 Focus to learn more Submission history From: Calvin Deutschbein [view email] [v1] Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:45:15 UTC (254 KB) Access Paper: view license Current browse context: cs.CR < prev   |   next > new | recent | 2026-06 Change to browse by: cs cs.DC References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Export BibTeX Citation Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Demos Related Papers About arXivLabs Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)