System On Chip From Microsemi

On 10/5/2015 1:37 PM, Meshenger wrote:
>
> In terms of Ethernet on the KickStart eval/development board, one can
> add an Arduino shield for that.  There is Bluetooth on-board but not
> Ethernet.

The only Arduino shields I have seen are general purpose interfaces 
which duplicate the MAC internal to the SF2.  This means it would not be 
code compatible with the SF2 Ethernet and so not much value using the 
Kickstart board for software development of a SF2 project.  I think the 
SF2 only needs a Phy and the transformer.

I would consider designing an add-on board to use the internal Ethernet 
MAC and make the I/O capability compatible with the Microsemi eval 
board.  I might add a few bells and whistles too.

-- 

Rick

rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> wrote:
> Again, I don't know for sure, but I think ring oscillators make very 
> *poor* random number generators because they are easily linked to noise 
> sources such as clocks on the chip.

Yes:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~atm26/papers/markettos-ches2009-inject-trng.pdf

That has been confirmed to me by various industrial security folks.

Theo