DoD Microelectronics: Field Programmable Gate Array Best Practices – Threat Catalog

The National Security Agency Cybersecurity technical report categorizes hardware assurance threats that apply to field programmable gate arrays as described in the Joint Federated Assurance Center FPGA Level of Assurance documents.

These threats originate from an adversary, are malicious, and compromise the operation of an field programmable gate arrays-based system by modifying intended behavior, adding extraneous new behaviors, impeding or preventing operation, degrading operation or reliability, and making use of known vulnerabilities in specific field programmable gate arrays devices.