Systems and methods for configuring a secure computing environment on an integrated circuit

A method of assigning a plurality of security labels to a set of components of an integrated circuit comprising:

• displaying, using a computer-implemented application, an interactive system design depicting the set of components;
• assigning, using the computer-implemented application, a first security label of the plurality of security labels to a first subset of the set of components in response to user input;
• assigning, using the computer-implemented application, a second security label of the plurality of security labels to a second subset of the set of components in response to user input, wherein the first and second subsets are non-overlapping;
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• generating, using the computer-implemented application, a first system handoff file for a system monitor of the integrated circuit based on the first and second subsets of the set of components.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more sequences of instructions, which instructions, when executed by at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to perform a method of dividing a set of components of an integrated circuit comprising:

• receiving information regarding first and second non-overlapping subsets of the set of components, wherein the information indicates that each component in the first non-overlapping subset is assigned by a user of the processor to a first security label, and wherein the information further indicates that each component in the second non-overlapping subset is assigned by the user to a second security label;
• generating a system handoff file based on the information regarding the first and second non-overlapping subsets;
• sending the system handoff file to a system monitor of the integrated circuit;
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• dividing, using the system monitor, the set of components of the integrated circuit according to the first and second security labels based on the system handoff file.