FPGA Setup: Interfacing with an External Circuit

The Introduction

For this post I will walk you through a project with a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), which was interfaced with a hand constructed clock circuit (an astable multivibrator).

FPGA setup

External circuit to be interfaced with Mojo v3 FPGA development board

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How to Hack a Sketchy e-voting System

The quintessence of an e-voting transaction is to be secure. In the e-voting context, security issues are very subtle. This is because there are features that clash with each other. For example, guaranteeing anonymity makes it harder to track election fraud. In addition, security in e-voting is highly related to the type of the technology used during the process. In distance e-voting, the voter can cast his vote from his personal computer by sending it to a central server via the Internet. The electronic, network-based nature of the latter makes it susceptible to a wide range of attacks. Continue reading