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How to exploit the uniqueness of FPGA silicon for security applications

FPGAs are used in place of ASICs for an increasing number of applications. Traditionally seen primarily as devices with programmable gates, FPGAs have progressively evolved since year 2000 into ...
Electronic Design

Microsemi steps up FPGA cybersecurity with PUF technology

Microsemi has announced the latest addition to its portfolio of cybersecurity capabilities for its flagship FPGAs—SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA and IGLOO2 FPGA—with Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) ...
Design-Reuse

Preservation of Circuit Structure and Timing during Fault Emulation in FPGA

This paper presents a technique that allows to preserve structure of a circuit according to a target technology during fault emulation in FPGA. The technique is not restricted to any target technology ...
Design-Reuse

Microsemi Steps Up Its Cyber Security Leadership in FPGAs: SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs and IGLOO2 FPGAs Enhanced with Physically Unclonable Function Technology

Microsemi Corporation (MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, today announced the latest addition to its leading portfolio ...
Semiconductor Engineering

PUF, The Magic IoT Defender

How would you feel if you put hours of effort and your ingenuity into designing a product, only to find cheaper copycats on the market? And what if, over time, those copycats failed and somehow eroded ...
Electronic Design

Turn FPGAs Into "Key" Players In The Cryptographics Field

Many state-of-the-art embedded systems use “platform” FPGAs such as Xilinx Virtex 4/5 class devices or Altera Stratix III/IV class devices. Until recently, it wasn’t possible to deploy keyed ...