Vendors
The two biggest makers of FPGAs
Who are AMD and Intel?
Main FPGA architecture building block for implementing logic function
What is lookup table (LUT)?
Do FPGAs lose their functionality when the power goes off?
What is yes
They are EEPROM-based
What are CPLDs. FPGAs are RAM-based
Fundamental property of FPGA makes it more attractive than ASIC from security perspective
Is it losing functionality and bitstream programming when power is cut?
Number of companies making FPGAs and headquartered in USA
5
First Altera FPGA family to include hardened DSP block
What is Stratix-I
The two most common Hardware Description Languages (HDLs)
What are Verilog and VHDL
Contain relatively few (a few 100's max) large blocks of logic with flip-flops
What are CPLDs. FPGAs are "fine-grain" devices which mean that they contain a lot (up to 100,000) of tiny blocks of logic with flip-flops.
What is the problem with using FPGA symmetric key decryption engines?
What is the lack of a key transport scheme.
Global FPGA market size in 2021
What is $6.8B
This is the most important building block of FPGA fabric architecture but it is never mentioned in FPGA datasheets
What is FPGA routing block (RT)
Four main stages of FPGA compilation flow
What are Synthesis, Placement, Routing, and Bitstream generation?
Consumes less power and can be modified "on the fly"
What are FPGAs
Type of security challenge emerging for large data-center scale FPGAs
What is multi-tenancy security?
Name 2 main Chinese FPGA makers
Pango (600 employees) and Xi'an iST (~350 employees)
Name all types of user-visible on-chip memory in Intel Agilex FPGAs
What are LUTRAM, M20k, and eSRAM?
Estimated codebase size of modern FPGA compilers (Intel Quartus and Xilinx Vivado)
20-30 million LOCs
Max-10 is FPGA or CPLD
What is non-volatile FPGA?
Name 3 main suppliers of FPGA-as-IP
What are Flexlogix, Achronix, and Menta
What is 16-32
Approximately how much time it takes to compile 1M ALM design
Is it 8-16 hours?