FPGA enhances security with hardware root-of-trust capabilities

LATTICE SEMICONDUCTOR MachXO3D FPGA simplifies the implementation of robust, comprehensive and flexible hardware-based security for all system components. Device can protect, detect and recover itself and other components from unauthorized firmware access at every stage of a system’s lifecycle, from the point of manufacturing all the way to the system’s end of life. When used to implement system control functions, device is typically the ‘first-on/last-off’ component on printed circuit boards.  By integrating security and system control functions, device becomes the first link in chain of trust that protects entire systems.