FPGAs must be protected from being cloned

by richard wilson - Electronics Weekly, Jan. 14, 2015 – 

We have historically experienced that while every technological advance brings its own fresh opportunities; it also creates an additional series of technological challenges for system designers.

They must develop new products while addressing issues, such as power consumption, reliability, and especially security.

In our hyperconnected world, it is essential that all new designs be protected from being cloned, reverse engineered, or tampered with in order to protect embedded intellectual property, system data, and the system itself.

The greatest advances in device security will come from making base-level security easy to use and adopt by system architects.

As FPGAs with embedded processors becoming the core of the new systems, the best approach is to provide SoC FPGAs with embedded security that works inherently, and allows the system architect to plan its security architecture at the core level rather than an afterthought.

It is essential that all FPGAs be protected from being cloned, reverse engineered, or tampered with. Integrated security protects the FPGA from design theft and/or alteration.

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