On: Unconventional Uses of FPGAs

[Dwedit]

My favorite unconventional use of an FPGA was when Costis used clock glitching and precise undervolting to extract the Boot Rom out of the Game Boy Color. There was an FPGA involved at some point in the process.

http://web.archive.org/web/20091001114207/www.fpgb.org/?page...

[Retr0id → Dwedit]

This may be unconventional in the sense that most FPGAs aren't used for it, but it's quite common in general, and you can buy commercial products that use FPGAs in this way (e.g. ChipWhisperer)