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 ...

LOS ALTOS, Calif., April 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Napatech™ (OSLO: NAPA.OL), the leading provider of reconfigurable computing platforms, today announced availability of the world's first FPGA-based ...

When you think of developing with FPGAs, you usually think of writing Verilog or VHDL. However, there’s been a relatively recent trend to use C to describe what an FPGA should do and have tools that ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Opal Kelly, a leading producer of powerful Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) modules that provide essential device-to-computer interconnect, today announced the ...

Every new hardware device that offers some kind of benefit compared to legacy devices faces the task of overcoming the immense inertia that is imparted to a platform by the software that runs upon it.

First, let’s review the basic FPGA building blocks in the cloud. Xilinx provides FPGAs to Amazon, which can be configured in Amazon F1 elastic cloud instances to accelerate a wide variety of workloads ...