Re:The Lack of Open Tooling for FPGAs
by diamondman on Monday April 20, 2015 @04:35PM
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I am replying to this comment instead of the multiple people under it.
You guys are right that FPGAs are not quite ready, or maybe will never be ready to be the primary radio for a phone because of the static power consumption. You could still have one available for certain burst operations that need to be highly accelerated.
Good point about the timing attacks on crypto, but hardware crypto can be updated within an FPGA. This can be seen as a pro and a con to security.
You guys are right that FPGAs are not quite ready, or maybe will never be ready to be the primary radio for a phone because of the static power consumption. You could still have one available for certain burst operations that need to be highly accelerated. Good point about the timing attacks on crypto, but hardware crypto can be updated within an FPGA. This can be seen as a pro and a con to security.