Atmel Certifies Avnet Electronics Marketing as Industry's First Distributor of VaultIC Turnkey Security Modules

Atmel and the Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas business region of Avnet, Inc. today announced their newly signed distribution agreement for Atmel's full line of VaultIC turnkey security modules. Avnet will provide secure logistics for these products to customers in the Americas.

Atmel is a leading provider of secure microcontrollers for smart card applications for telecom, banking and government markets. Offering over 25 years of expertise in secure microcontroller designs, Atmel's products have many of the highest security certifications in the industry including Common Criteria EAL4+/EAL5+, FIPS 140-2, ZKA and EMVCo. Atmel's VaultIC products can easily bring high security functions to applications such as smart metering, USB token, Femtocells, IP protection, gaming platforms or access controls.

Designed as outstanding security modules, the VaultIC features powerful and hardware-based cryptographic algorithms such as RSA, TDES, AES or Elliptic Curves (ECC), together with tamper-proof and tamper-evident secure data storage. The entire product range is designed to meet the Industry's highest security certifications (Common Criteria EAL4+ and FIPS140-2 Level 3 as a minimum). The wide choice of interfaces provided by the VaultIC (USB, I²C compatible/TWI, SPI, GPIOs, ISO7816 for smartcard applications) makes the physical integration in any existing system fast and easy.

Atmel's array of turnkey security modules allows customers to protect their intellectual property using high strength encryption technology without complex program development, said Jeff Ittel, senior vice president of business development and marketing for Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas. As the first distributor certified to provide this technology, Avnet is in a unique position to provide the turnkey security solutions our customers require, while helping them accelerate their time to market.

Atmel offers the VaultIC product family of secure turnkey solutions for fast and easy integration of security in any system, said Olivier Debelleix, marketing manager of embedded security for Atmel Corporation. There is no complex program development required, heavy ROM masking, or the need for specific expertise in security. This results in accelerated time-to-market for customer products, offering a significant advantage over their competition. Avnet Electronics Marketing will be instrumental in serving our customers' requirements for support and logistics excellence.