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Re:A Full Break of the Bitstream Encryption of Xilinx 7-Seri... by SlowRobotAhead on Sunday April 19, 2020 @12:26PM (#22916888)
Bitstream is not firmware. It’s gate configuration.

It’s not a pedantic difference. It’s much harder to reverse hardware configuration back to human readable logic like Verilog.

“Bitstream is not firmware” is the first thing you learn when working with FPGAs.

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