A field-programmable gate array – or FPGA – is an integrated circuit that can be configured by a customer or designer after manufacturing. As HPC Wire’s Nicole Hemsoth recently reported, FPGAs have found a comfortable home in a broad range of applications that can be very broadly defined as search-based with the arrival of Big Data in HPC, hyperscale and general commercial environments. In addition, FPGAs are seeing significant adoption in research—particularly in the life sciences.
DPA Countermeasures
DPAWS UX gets a cryptographic makeover
The 2014 Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems Workshop – aka CHES – kicks off in South Korea on September 23. Sponsored by the International Association for Cryptologic Research, the event was first held in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1999 at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).
Rambus secures smartphones and tablets
Did you know that Rambus is helping a number of industry heavyweights protect smartphones and tablets against side-channel attacks? In recent years, Rambus has licensed its DPA countermeasure technology to multiple corporations including Broadcom, Infineon, ST Microelectronics and Samsung. More specifically, more than 7 billion devices will be manufactured in 2014 with DPA countermeasures licensed from the Cryptography Research (CR) Division of Rambus.