Hackaday

32C3: A Free And Open Source Verilog-to-Bitstream Flow For ICE40 FPGAs

[Clifford] presented a fully open-source toolchain for programming FPGAs. If you don’t think that this is an impressive piece of work, you don’t really understand FPGAs. The toolchain, or “flow” as ...
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 ...
Hackaday

Give Your RPi A Cool FPGA Hat

Need additional, custom IO for your Raspberry Pi? Adding an FPGA is a logical way to expand your IO, and allow for high speed digital interfaces. [Eric Brombaugh]’s Icehat adds a Lattice iCE5LP4K-SG48 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
New Electronics

Reference design to protect fpga based systems uses simple challenge and response system

The fpga has been embraced with enthusiasm by embedded systems designers. Through its programmability, the device lends itself to a number of roles. At one end of the scale, it can act as a level ...
Linux Journal

Xilinx FPGA Design Tools for Linux

A field programmable gate array (FPGA) is a user-programmable piece of silicon constructed in very large-scale integration (VLSI) technology. The VLSI transistor-level detail is absolutely predefined ...
EDN

Encoding JPEG2000 video by combining DSP and FPGA

A JPEG2000 encoder needs to perform the following operations: Because of its advanced functionality, JPEG2000 requires more computational resources to achieve similar encoding and decoding speeds as ...
Science Daily

Critical 'starbleed' vulnerability in FPGA chips identified

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are flexibly programmable computer chips that are considered very secure components in many applications. Scientists have now discovered that a critical ...