Adding the new SHA-3 hashing functions to its extensive offering of IP blocks, Barco Silex, use the hashing functions to check the integrity of messages, transactions and data in, e.g., e-commerce, financial applications or data archiving. SHA-3 hashing is part of the NIST-endorsed FIPS 202 standard and serves as a future-proof backup for the widely-used SHA-2 algorithms.

Intrinsic ID and Barco Silex have announced the companies are partnering to offer their customers the benefit of integrated security technologies by enabling the use of Intrinsic ID’s BROADKEY or QUIDDIKEY in combination with Barco Silex’s ESECURE. Intrinsic ID’s BROADKEY and QUIDDIKEY are secure key management solutions that dynamically reconstruct on-chip secret keys without ever storing those keys.

Barco Silex has announced a partnership with Accelize, the leading enabler of FPGA Acceleration-as-a-Service. Barco Silex enters the QuickAlliance ecosystem, joining a growing number of world-class IP providers that offer their IP cores through Accelize’s platform for plug-and-play configuration of FPGA accelerators. In addition, Barco Silex and Accelize will partner to enable high-quality cloud-based encryption services leveraging Bar...

Barco Silex has entered into an agreement with D’Crypt Pte Ltd, Singapore’s premier design house for hardware cryptography solutions. Barco Silex will provide D’Crypt with its BA414EP core for public key cryptography for inclusion in their FPGA solutions that will secure automotive car-to-infrastructure communication. D’Crypt selected the IP because of its state-of-the-art capabilities, unrivaled size/performance ratio and...

It has been announced by Barco Silex that Acacia Research has licensed its acclaimed JPEG 2000 IP cores. The JPEG 2000 cores will be integrated in a search and rescue system to help deliver high-quality video to mission computers and ground stations.

Barco Silex will exhibit at InfoComm 2016 (June 8 - 10, Las Vegas), booth C8720. The company will demonstrate its Viper boards along with its advanced IP solutions for the professional AV market. The Viper allows transport of high-resolution video up to 4K/UHD HDMI over a 1Gbit Ethernet cable. The innovative board is designed for seamless integration into such applications as video conferencing, residential AV distribution, digital signage and vi...

To turn ASIC and SoC designs into fully-secured IoT (Internet of Things) applications, a new IP module has been introduced by Barco Silex. The eSecure module functions as a root-of-trust, guaranteeing the authenticity and integrity of the application’s hardware, software, data and communication. It offloads all security operations to hardware and scales according to the needs of the application. Its cryptographic engine supports all the lat...

Barco announces an important expansion of its wireless presentation and collaboration portfolio. The CS-100 and CSE-200 join the ClickShare portfolio, offering the freedom to better tailor the ClickShare unit to the meeting room’s – and the participants’ – needs. In this way, Barco’s ClickShare portfolio spans the complete spectrum of meeting rooms, from small huddle rooms to large boardrooms.

Barco Silex is breaking new ground with the introduction of an OEM board for the professional audio-visual market. The board enables the transport of HDMI video/audio over IP networks, including high-resolution video up to 4K/UHD over a single 1Gb Ethernet cable.

Barco Silex has validated its hardware solution for lightweight, low complexity video compression against the SMPTE 2042-3 reference. The low footprint core is now ready to be integrated in both ASIC and FPGA designs without the need for an expensive footprint. This opens up new possibilities for equipment manufacturers as they get a low cost, interoperable compression solution to upgrade video transport to high definition formats such as UHD and...

A new IP core for public-key cryptography has been introduced by Barco Silex. The new core boosts the performance of Barco Silex’s solutions reaching less than 150µs to perform an ECDSA-P256 verify operation, even on an FPGA. With support for all major algorithms, the core could be a key tool for IoT applications that require a dependable, fast security.

At IBC 2015 Show in Amsterdam, Barco Silex announced that the VC-2 Low Delay codec is now available for licensing to broadcast equipment manufacturers. The VC-2 Low Delay codec is a patent-free lightweight compression codec suited to encode HD video content. VC-2 LD has ultra-low latency and compresses video streams by a compression ratio of four times visually lossless.

At the NAB conference, Barco Silex announced that it will add VC-2 LD (SMPTE 2042) to its offering of hardware cores for video compression. VC-2 is a light compression codec especially suited to manage HD video production and storage. This core will give video equipment OEMs a cost-effective and fast way to make their tools HD/UHD-proof.

A full reference implementation of the Video Services Forum VSF TR-01 recommendation, which allows interoperable transport of JPEG 2000 streams over IP networks, has been released by Barco Silex. Targeted at broadcast equipment OEMs that want to make their video transport tools interoperable, the multichannel design is built around a Xilinx FPGA platform and integrates IP cores from Barco Silex and Xilinx.

Barco Silex has announced that it has added support for the Apple HomeKit to its Public Key IP core, in the form of Curve25519 and EdDSA. Barco Silex is the first IP provider offering hardware acceleration for these algorithms, which are especially suited to secure IoT applications. 

Barco Silex announces that Dialog Semiconductor has successfully integrated the Barco Silex BA431 IP core into its short range wireless communication ASIC. The core is a FIPS-140-2-certified Deterministic Random Bit Generator (DRBG) combined with a True Random Number Generator (TRNG), designed to enable secure cryptography.

Barco Silex has announced the launch of its AES-GCM (BA415) IP core for 10-100Gbps applications. The AES-GCM (Galois Counter Mode) is an authenticated encryption algorithm which combines the AES counter mode for encryption and the Galois field multiplier for the authentication.

Barco Silex and Vanguard Video are joining forces to develop and provide the market with high quality H.265/HEVC encoder solutions based upon Xilinx FPGA devices. As value-added distributor of Vanguard Video, Barco Silex is developing a complete HEVC encoder using the Xilinx® Virtex®-7 FPGA family integrating the Vanguard Video H.265/HEVC encoder core.

Barco Silex announce that Atos Worldline uses a Barco Silex FPGA crypto platform in its ADYTON. The ADYTON, which recently received an iF product design award in addition to its red dot product design award, integrates Barco Silex’s IP to achieve RSA and ECC performance levels of over 7000 op/s in RSA CRT and FIPS 140-2 Security level 4 certification.

Barco Silex, Barco's center of competence for electronic design, has announced the enhanced version of its multi-purpose AES crypto engine. Just like its predecessor, the BA411E supports a wide range of ciphering modes and offers an outstanding ratio performances/resources for ASIC and FPGA. The high level of scalability and flexibility of this IP core eases the support of tricky features. The BA411E allows Barco Silex to generate silicon and po...