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3 years ago

Arria10 HPS secure boot from FPGA

Hi, For bootstrapping in production and as a rescue mechanism for 'bricked' boards, we use an FPGA image, with a U-boot image embedded in ROM. The FPGA image is loaded over JTAG and forces the HPS ...
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3 years ago

Hi aikeu,

That is indeed one of the documents describing the HPS secure boot process on Arria10. However, I have noticed that these documents usually discuss only authentication and/or decryption of the second-stage bootloader image from flash. How secure boot from FPGA works is never touched upon in the documentation I have encountered.

Kind regards,

Robbe