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FPGA Code Protector |
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General
In today's age of information, data security is more important than ever. In order to be able to offer products at prices
lower than the competition, intellectual property (IP) is often subject to theft.
FPGAs are steadily gaining popularity due to their attractive cost/performance ratio in electronic products.
They are being employed on a large scale in many PCB designs, which makes the need to protect their contents apparent.
This is where the FPGA Code Protector (FCP) comes into play.
SRAM-based FPGAs have a volatile memory and lose their configuration data after power-off.
These data are usually provided by an external non-volatile memory that is used by the FPGA for self-configuration as soon
as it is powered. The wires from the memory to the FPGA can be tapped easily and thus constitute a giant loop hole in data security.
IP thieves can record the configuration data and program their own chips with them. That way, the entire engineering effort of an
FPGA-based product can be stolen in practically no time.
Gleichmann Electronics Research offers a technically sophisticated solution to this problem. A CPLD constitutes the heart of the FPGA
Code Protector which permanently supervises the IP by communicating with its counterpart in the FPGA. We deliver the latter in form of
a black box to our customers that can simply be instantiated.
The FCP offers another advantage: Additional circuitry can be accommodated in the CPLD it resides in. E.g., the JTAG configuration of
the FPGA can be realized along with the FCP in order to be even more cost-efficient.
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Applications
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Protection of
microcontroller systems
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