Develop fail-safe single-chip solutions to high-assurance, physical security design problems using Xilinx's Isolation Design Flow

by Steve Leibson - Xcell Daily Blog - Xilinx, Feb. 03, 2016 – 

The Xilinx IDF (Isolation Design Flow) allows you to implement hardware designs for applications requiring both physical and logical isolation of security- and safety-critical modules. An example of such an application is a Single-Chip Cryptography (SCC) design. Many designers still think that it's necessary to implement such designs in multiple devices to get absolute isolation but this is not strictly true. Using tools included in the Xilinx Vivado HLx Design Suite editions, you can develop single-chip designs where critical modules are logically, physically, and provably separated, as shown in the example graphic below:

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