Hackaday

Reverse Engineering Lattice’s ICE40 FPGA Bitstream

Unlike microcontroller projects, projects involving FPGAs cannot yet claim to rely on a mature open-source toolchain. Each FPGA will, at some point, need to be configured with a proprietary bitstream ...
Hackaday

Old Cisco WAN Card Turned FPGA Playground

Many of us think of FPGAs as some new cutting edge technology, but the fact of the matter is that they’ve been around for quite some time. They’ve just traditionally been used in hardware that’s too ...
Semiconductor Engineering

An End-to-End Bitstream Tamper Attack Against Flip-Chip FPGAs

“FPGA bitstream encryption and authentication can be defeated by various techniques and it is critical to understand how these vulnerabilities enable extraction and tampering of commercial FPGA ...
Yahoo Finance

Microchip Further Protects FPGA-based Designs with First Tool that Combats Major Industry Threat to System Security in the Field

CHANDLER, Ariz., June 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mission-critical and other high-assurance systems deployed worldwide are under rapidly evolving threats from cybercriminals who attempt to extract ...
Semiconductor Engineering

ML Opening New Doors For FPGAs

FPGAs have long been used in the early stages of any new digital technology, given their utility for prototyping and rapid evolution. But with machine learning, FPGAs are showing benefits beyond those ...
EurekAlert!

Critical 'starbleed' vulnerability in FPGA chips identified

Field Programmable Gate Arrays, FPGAs for short, are flexibly programmable computer chips that are considered very secure components in many applications. In a joint research project, scientists from ...
EDN

The FPGA “Fountain of Youth” (field logic updates)

Long gone are the days when a single, complex system design could enjoy a 5- or 10-year market life. System requirements are changing at an explosive rate. I/O standards, data communications standards ...
EDN

Re-configure space-grade FPGAs in orbit

SRAM and flash-based space-grade FPGAs can be re-programmed in-orbit offering maximum flexibility to change functionality and improve system performance in response to changing needs. For technology ...