A recent paper published by a team of German researchers concludes that the bitstream encryption mechanism of Xilinx Virtex-4 and Virtex-5 FPGAs can be “completely broken with moderate effort” through ...

A team of academics says they've discovered a new security bug that impacts Xilinx FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) chipsets. Named Starbleed, the bug allows attackers -- with both physical or ...

There’s bad news in the paper, The Unpatchable Silicon: A Full Break of the Bitstream Encryption of Xilinx 7-Series FPGAs by Maik Ender and Amir Moradi, Horst Goertz Institute for IT Security, Ruhr ...

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 ...

In a surprising move, ARM has made two Cortex-M cores available for FPGA development at no cost. In the over three decades since [Sophie Wilson] created the first ARM processor design for the Acorn ...