Reconfigurability is usually treated as an FPGA’s defining advantage. But in some systems, it is also a source of risk. Many SRAM-based FPGAs power up unconfigured. Before they can operate, configuration data must be retrieved from external or on-chip nonvolatile storage, transferred into configuration SRAM, and protected throughout that process. That architecture is flexible, but […]
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