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From: "Randall M" <randallm () fidmail com>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:56:44 -0500
Oh boy....check the last sentence: __________________________________ brunascle writes "Researchers have devised a new way to patch hardware. By treating a computer chip more like software than hardware, Josep Torrellas, a computer science professor from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, believes we will be able to fix defective hardware by a applying a patch, similar to the way defective software is handled. His system, dubbed Phoenix, consists of a standard semiconductor device called a field programmable gate array (FPGA). Although generally slower than their application-specific integrated circuit counterparts, FPGAs have the advantage of being able to be modified post-production. Defects found on a Phoenix-enabled chip could be resolved by downloading a patch and applying it to the hardware. Torrellas believes this would give chips a shorter time to market, saying "If they know that they could fix the problems later on, they could beat the competition to market."" <http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=x0jEFE> Read more <http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/108108139/article.pl> ______________________________________ Snif. Snif, I smell trouble. Thank You Randall M ===================== "You too can have your very own Computer!" Note: Side effects include: Blue screens; interrupt violation; illegal operations; remote code exploitations; virus and malware infestations; and other unknown vulnerabilities.
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