Research Article

Exploration of Uninitialized Configuration Memory Space for Intrinsic Identification of Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA Devices

Table 1

Frame address register description (Xilinx Virtex-5).

Address type Bit index description

Block type [23:21] Used in Virtex-5: 000 up to 011.
Top_B bit 20 Selects between top and bottom
Row address [19:15] Selects the current row
Column address [14:7] Selects a major column
Minor address [6:0] Selects a frame