This work presents Antikernel, a novel operating system architecture consisting of both hardware and software components and designed to be fundamentally more secure than the state of the art.  ...  CPU running application or systems software) connected by a packet-switched network-on-chip (NoC).  ...  Thus Antikernel architecture unifies two previously orthogonal fields -hardware accelerators and operating system (OS) security -in order to create a new OS architecture which can enforce OS security policy  ...