Reconfigurable LUT: Boon or Bane for Secure Applications

Reconfigurable LUT: A Double Edged Sword for Security-Critical Applications

Modern FPGAs offer various new features for enhanced reconfigurability and better performance. One of such feature is a dynamically Reconfigurable LUT (RLUT) whose content can be updated internally, even during run-time. There are many scenarios like pattern matching where this feature has been shown to enhance the performance of the system. In this paper, we study RLUT in the context of secure...

Additives in adhesive formulations Wetting Agents – boon or bane ?

Pressure-sensitive adhesives or PSAs are traditionally used on labels, including paper labels and clear labels, Figure 1, which are made from plastic film. Other important uses for PSAs include adhesive tapes and a wide range of graphical applications. One factor that all these applications have in common is a specific requirement relating to the end performance of the adhesive system, which is...

Tax Competition : Bane or Boon ?

Hybrid LUT and SOP Reconfigurable Architecture

With the increasing non-recurring engineering cost of advanced process technologies, reconfigurable devices have received great attention in small and medium-volume integrated circuit designs. However, low logic diversity and slow timing performance limit the efficacy of field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and complex programmable logic device (CPLD). In this paper, we propose an efficient hyb...

Implementation of a Server Architecture for Secure Reconfiguration of Embedded Systems

Field reconfigurable logic finds an increased integration in both industrial and consumer applications. A need for secure reconfiguration techniques on these devices arises as live firmware updates are essential for a guaranteed continuity of the application’s performance. Ideally, a wide variety of different reconfigurable devices in a range of applications should be configurable with suitable...