1.2.3.1 Reduced Cost of Ownership

Advantages to the designer extend beyond low unit cost, high performance, and ease of use. Flash-based SmartFusion cSoCs are live at power-up and do not need to be loaded from an external boot PROM at each power-up. On-board security mechanisms prevent access to the programming information and enable secure remote updates of the FPGA logic. Designers can perform secure remote In-System Programming (ISP) to support future design iterations and critical field upgrades, with confidence that valuable IP cannot be compromised or copied. Secure ISP can be performed using the industry standard AES algorithm with MAC data authentication on the device.