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9 years ago

Testing on unprogrammed blank FPGAs?

as a non-destructive testing, if we want to analyse the un-programmed blank devices for their default output values and also to verify their electrical characteristics as per the data sheet, do any o...
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9 years ago

A hardware trojan can be implemented by the ASIC designer team of each part. In this case, you cannot verify whether there is a hardware trojan inside your FPGA or not. You could have verified this if you had designed the FPGA (instead of Altera). A hardware trojan may not need any external device for any thing.