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 ...
EDN

Managing multiple bit-stream images for remote system update

The power of programmable-logic-based systems is manifold. There are obvious advantages in time to market, but there is also a distinct advantage in that hardware designs can be more like software.
Nature

FPGA Security and Attacks

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have become an integral component in modern electronic systems due to their reconfigurability and high-performance capabilities. However, these devices are ...
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 ...
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 ...