1. Secure and Remote
partial reconfiguration of
FPGAs

2. Overview
Most of the electrical devices, nowadays, have a small controller or processor
running microcode, called firmware.
Often this firmware can be updated, but it requires a service technician or
network connection.

3. Overview
Shipping electrical devices with Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs),
would allow hardware to be updated.
This could offer:
● Shorter time to market
● Longer life cycle of devices
● Modularity
● The normal firmware advantages
Secure, remote, dynamic reconfiguration of FPGAs

4. Building the crypto-component
Resulting crypto-component

5. Completing the static part
The static part of the FPGA has to contain:
● The crypto-component
● The ICAP component
● A component for remote
communication
● A controller to direct
the cryptographic
component and the communication component
Making an embedded processor system through Xilinx Platform Studio

6. Preliminary results
Results: Resource usage in XC5VFX70T
! ! Big overhead in reconfigurable fabric