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Attempts to reverse engineer these devices might correlate an XDLRC file with the relevant bits, a technique used by the BIL tool. Likely the first open-source toolchain for development on these devices was created by Claire Wolf after she reverse engineered one of them in her Project IceStorm. Project X-Ray is an attempt to reverse engineer the 7-series of these devices, including the Artix-7. Successfully reversing one of these devices involves taking the bitstream or bitfile loaded onto it and converting it back to a netlist. The primary vendors of these devices are notoriously secretive, requiring designers to use proprietary software like Quartus Prime, ISE, or Vivado. The main suppliers of these devices are (*) Altera and Xilinx (“ZYE-links”). For 10 points, name these kinds of integrated circuits often used for prototyping ASICs (“A-sicks”), since their arrays of logic blocks can be reconfigured on the fly. ■END■
ANSWER: FPGAs [or field-programmable gate arrays; prompt on “microchips”; prompt on “integrated circuits” or “ICs” before “ASICs”; prompt on “SoCs” or “system on a chip”; prompt on “CPLDs” or “complex programmable logic devices”]
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| Conv. % | Power % | Average Buzz |
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| 80% | 40% | 102.50 |
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