‘No CPU, No Compromise: Building Reliable FPGA Crypto for Space‘
EIDEL is a Norwegian leading designer and supplier of electronics for the defence and aerospace markets. The flexibility and versatility of FPGAs is a major advantage for demanding and low volume products that we deliver. While the current trend on FPGA development is to tightly integrate hardware and embedded software, we have decided for our Nanosatellite Crypto Unit not to use any CPU. This offers advantages when high reliability is required, and modern methodologies for design and especially testing makes the process easier than ever. By focusing on modularity and reuse of functional blocks, we have developed a highly capable and robust system, fully exploiting the parallelism and flexibility inherent to FPGAs.