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WP0089: Incredible Shrinking Medical Devices White Paper | 595.68 kB | 10/21/2008 | 02/04/2016 | |
High-Volume nano FPGAs White Paper | 415.85 kB | 11/11/2008 | 11/11/2008 | |
Power-Aware FPGA Design White Paper | 1.8 MB | 02/09/2009 | 02/09/2009 | |
Developing Embedded Applications with ARM Cortex-M1 Processors in Actel IGLOO and Fusion FPGAs White Paper | 548.29 kB | 03/09/2009 | 03/09/2009 | |
SmartFusion2 Low Power White Paper The SmartFusion®2 system-on-chip (SoC) FPGA is differentiated from other FPGAs by its low power capabilities that enable orders of magnitude lower power operation for low duty cycle applications. The device family includes important low power features: |
Unknown | 10/08/2012 | 06/26/2013 | |
AutoWP | 149.11 kB | 05/08/2013 | 05/08/2013 | |
Protecting FPGAs from Power Analysis Recent advances in the size and performance of FPGAs, coupled with advantages in time-to-market, field-reconfigurability and lower up-front costs, make FPGAs ideally suited to a wide range of commercial and defense applications. In addition, FPGAs’ generality and reconfigurability provide important protections against the introduction of Trojan horses during semiconductor manufacturing process. As a result, FPGA applications increasingly involve highly-sensitive intellectual property and trade-secrets, as well as cryptographic keys and algorithms. |
151.81 kB | 05/08/2013 | 06/25/2013 | |
DesignSecurity WP | 188.55 kB | 05/08/2013 | 05/08/2013 | |
Motor PowerFactor WP | 718.43 kB | 05/08/2013 | 05/08/2013 | |
SXbkgrndr | 222.54 kB | 05/08/2013 | 05/08/2013 | |
Flash Based Space Applications | 331.74 kB | 05/29/2013 | 03/26/2015 | |
Developing Safety Critical Applications that Meet IEC 61508 Standards White PaperåÊ
Industrial safety systems encompass complex manufacturing infrastructures and processes with many different levels of identified safety integrity requirements. This session will first provide an overview of numerous safety standards with particular focus on the IEC 61508 Functional Safety of Electrical/ Electronic/Programmable Electronic Safety-related Systems. Associated security concerns, in particular for networked embedded systems, will also be explored. A case study of a deployed Safety Level 3 system will be described. A design and implementation methodology will be used to create redundant, dissimilar processes to dramatically improve reliability. A configurable system-on-chip that includes an embedded ARM® Cortex™-M3 processor and FPGA logic will be used as the target implementation device.
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Unknown | 06/26/2013 | 06/26/2013 | |
A Cryptographic Solution for Supply Chain Assurance of Intelligent ICs White Paper
To prevent counterfeiting and other fraudulent activity in the supply chain, ways of confirming an electronic component is as per the order is required. This is particularly true in high-value “intelligent” ICs where there is the most profit to be made. There are solutions to this issue ranging from only buying from approved sources (process solutions) to highly complex system level designs (technology solutions). This paper presents a cryptographic solution to the problem that allows the extension of trusted sites from the chip designer and OEM through the entire supply chain to the delivery of finished goods to the customer. The presented solution is based on Microsemi’s newly introduced SmartFusion®2 System-on-Chip (SoC) FPGAs.
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Unknown | 06/26/2013 | 06/26/2013 | |
SmartFusion2 White PaperåÊ This white paper has provided a detailed look at the key aspects of the SmartFusion2 family and has demonstrated the dramatic advantages SmartFusion2 FPGAs make available to designers of advanced |
Unknown | 06/26/2013 | 06/26/2013 | |
Increasing Fault Tolerance in Safety Critical Systems by Using Diverse Design with Programmable Logi
High reliability systems have to work no matter what - and a common method of combating down time is to duplicate at least some of the vital circuitry, so that the system can detect any single type of failure mode (whether it occurs naturally or is caused maliciously). With this capability, a system could either switch between the duplicate circuits in the event of a failure, or behave in a different way that is appropriate when at least 1 failure is detected. This can, however, cause at least one concern – what if the fault was something that affected the redundant circuitry too? You could be switching between failing circuitry continually and never solving the problem. By implementing the redundant device based on a very different technology, with differing (or diverse) failure modes and fault conditions for the redundant circuitry, this possibility can be alleviated. This paper looks at "Design Diversity" or differences in Programmable Logic technologies from a single vendor and demonstrates that the technology used from one generation to the next is often revolutionary and has no bearing on old design techniques.
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Unknown | 06/26/2013 | 06/26/2013 | |
Implement Secure Boot with a Microsemi IGLOO2 FPGA for Free White Paper
Microsemi IGLOO2 devices have a wide range of differentiated Security features that can implement secure boot capability on an embedded system. A secure boot process is needed to verify that the boot code used to 'bring-up' an embedded system is authorized to run on the target processor. Without such a check the security of the MCU controlled sub-system, and perhaps even the rest of a complete networked system, can be compromised by a malicious intruder. This white paper will educate embedded systems designers of the dangers posed by poor system security and will illustrate how implementing secure boot using Microsemi IGLOO2 devices can dramatically increase the security of any embedded system that might be subject to outside attacks. Additionally, the paper will demonstrate how in most cases the addition of these types of security features can be included for free since the IGLOO2 FPGA will also be used to implement other common embedded system functions in addition to the security functions needed for secure boot.
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Unknown | 06/26/2013 | 06/26/2013 | |
Using the IGLOO2 High-Performance Memory Subsystem in Innovative Bridging Applications White Paper
Microsemi IGLOO2 devices include an innovative High-Performance Memory Subsystem (HSMS) that provides dedicated functions (like DDR Controllers, embedded non-volatile and SRAM memory, DMA and an efficient AHB Matrix) to speed common system operations typical of innovative bridging applications. When the advanced features of the HSMS are combined with a wealth of FPGA fabric (including advanced DSP and embedded memory blocks), and up to 16 lanes of multi-protocol SerDes, impressive external bandwidth can be matched with extensive internal data-processing and data-management capabilities. This allows even the most bandwidth hungry bridging applications to run continually at full speed while keeping power, cost and board space within even the stingiest of budgets. This white paper will demonstrate the needs and requirements of systems with advanced bridging functions to directly illustrate the advantages of IGLOO2 devices in these types of applications.
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Unknown | 06/26/2013 | 06/26/2013 | |
Accelerating System-on-Chip FPGA Design for Complex Embedded Systems White Paper
The system-on-chip FPGA is a new class of device that incorporates both field-programmable gate array (FPGA) and microcontroller subsystem on a single device. As the capabilities of these devices extend to high speed serial and DDR memory interfaces, and high performance FPGA fabric with DSP processing, the architecture within the device requires an advanced tool methodology to simplify the designer's experience and accelerate time-to-market. System Builder accomplishes this by guiding users visually, presenting a high level abstraction for system construction and then generating a "correct by construction" implementation of the selected system components.
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Unknown | 06/26/2013 | 06/26/2013 | |
It's Easy to Protect Your Embedded System from Theft White Paper
Embedded Systems are increasingly subject to threats of intrusion and theft of the design and the Intellectual Property (IP) associated with the design. The design implementation choice, if it includes advanced Design Security features, can protect the design and its IP from even the most aggressive intrusion or tampering. Microsemi's Flash IGLOO2 FPGAs, and SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs, have best-in-class Design Security features that protect the system from the theft of valuable/priceless IP, overbuilding, malicious hacking, intrusion or hijacking. This white paper will demonstrate how Microsemi IGLOO2 FPGAs and SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs and the associated design environment make it easy to protect your IP without the need to become a security 'expert'. It will also illustrate how these Design Security capabilities are typically 'free' due to the innovative architecture, technology and use models that these devices employ.
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Unknown | 06/26/2013 | 10/18/2017 | |
Secure Foundations White Paper White Paper
In a world where attacks on electronic systems can be conducted remotely, security is a vital component of system design. Even systems that do not have to store personal or commercially confidential data now have to be designed with security in mind to prevent their core intellectual property (IP) from being copied and reused illegally. In these examples, we can see the two elements of electronic system security: design security and data security. Increasingly, the two depend on each other. Without effective design security, there can be no data security. This white paper will introduce you to design and data security and will provide four options to support different design security use models.
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Unknown | 06/26/2013 | 06/27/2013 |