Method of improving FPGA security using authorization codes

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PATENT NO 9672385
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14485833

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A method for securely programming a population of authorized FPGAs includes defining the population of authorized FPGAs, generating an encrypted configuration bitstream for the population of authorized FPGAs, generating an individual Authorization Code for each FPGA in the population of authorized FPGAs, feeding the individual Authorization Codes into the FPGAs in the population of FPGAs, feeding the encrypted configuration bitstream into all of the FPGAs in the population of FPGAs, and in each FPGA using the Authorization Code to decrypt the encrypted configuration bitstream to program the FPGA.

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MICROSEMI SOC CORPORATION3870 NORTH FIRST STREET SAN JOSE CA 95134

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Newell, G Richard Tracy, US 14 287

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