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A power side-channel-based digital to analog converterfor Xilinx FPGAs

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Brad L. Hutchings,

Joshua Monson,

Danny Savory,

Jared KeeleyAuthors Info & Claims

FPGA '14: Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/SIGDA international symposium on Field-programmable gate arrays

Pages 113 - 116

https://doi.org/10.1145/2554688.2554770

Published: 26 February 2014 Publication History

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A novel Digital to Analog Converter (DAC) modulates the overall power consumption of an FPGA by disabling/enabling short circuits programmed into the interconnect. The power pin of the FPGA serves as the output of the DAC. The DAC achieves high linearity and can be used to implement applications in communications, security, etc. The shortcircuit-based DAC consumes 1/3 the area of an alternative shift-register-based DAC that is presented for the sake of comparison.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491233
Gaskin TCook HStirk WLucas RGoeders JHutchings B(2020)Using Novel Configuration Techniques for Accelerated FPGA Aging2020 30th International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)10.1109/FPL50879.2020.00037(169-175)Online publication date: Aug-2020
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Nelson B(2019)Third Party CAD Tools for FPGA Design—A Survey of the Current LandscapeIntelligent Information and Database Systems10.1007/978-3-030-17227-5_25(353-367)Online publication date: 29-Mar-2019
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A power side-channel-based digital to analog converterfor Xilinx FPGAs
1. Hardware
  1. Communication hardware, interfaces and storage
    1. Wireless devices
    2. Wireless integrated network sensors
  2. Integrated circuits
    1. Interconnect
      1. Radio frequency and wireless interconnect

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DOI:10.1145/2554688

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https://doi.org/10.1109/FPL50879.2020.00037
Nelson B(2019)Third Party CAD Tools for FPGA Design—A Survey of the Current LandscapeIntelligent Information and Database Systems10.1007/978-3-030-17227-5_25(353-367)Online publication date: 29-Mar-2019
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