Hackaday

Hands-On With New Arduino FPGA Board: MKR Vidor 4000

Hackaday brought you a first look the Arduino MKR Vidor 4000 when it announced. Arduino sent over one of the first boards so now we finally have our hands on one! It’s early and the documentation is ...
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 ...
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 ...
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

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.
Semiconductor Engineering

Securing FPGAs Beyond the Bitstream

FPGAs are a popular solution for low-volume applications and applications where frequent updates are essential to the value of the solution, as in many aerospace and defense and AI applications.