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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 Launches AT90SDC100/104 Dual-Core Secure Microcontrollers For Growing PayTV Market
Atmel Corporation, a leader in microcontroller-based solutions, today announced the industry's first dual-core secure microcontrollers targeting demanding smart card applications such as the growing PayTV conditional access market.
Atmel's Secure Microcontroller Offers Easy-to-Implement Security to Prevent Cloning and Counterfeiting
Atmel announced a new secure microcontroller dedicated to deeply embedded security functions including brand and IP (intellectual property) protection against counterfeiting and cloning. Atmel's AT90SO4 is the newest member of the AT90SO product family - a family that offers a wide range of interfaces to bring security in any system. Built around Atmel's secureAVR® microcontroller technology, the AT90SO4 offers banking or government security ...
LA Metro selects NXP’s MIFARE Plus Microcontroller IC for Ticketing
NXP has announced that Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) is the world’s first transport operator to implement NXP’s MIFARE Plus contactless technology for its automatic fare collection infrastructure. LA Metro, which already uses a MIFARE Classic-based system, is upgrading the Transit Access Pass, or TAP card, to include MIFARE Plus microcontroller smart card ICs. On an annual basis, LA Metro attracts approxi...
NXP’s MIFARE DESFire EV1 Technology Receives Security Stamp of Approval
NXP has announced that its MIFARE DESFire EV1 smart card technology has received Common Criteria certification from the German Federal Office of Information Security. After successful evaluation regarding correct implementation of the promised security features and a series of rigorous penetration tests by an independent laboratory, NXP has become the first smart card IC manufacturer to achieve the Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 4+ rating for a...
NXP MIFARE Plus Scores High in Independent Security Reviews
NXP Semiconductors today announced that its MIFARE Plus contactless smart card CPU IC (MF1PLUSx0y1) has been awarded Common Criteria EAL 4+ certification by the German Federal Office for Information Security (Ref.: BSI-DSZ-CC-0586-2009). In addition, MIFARE Plus has proven successful in independent security reviews conducted by leading cryptography experts from the Ruhr-Universität in Germany and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, wh...
NXP Unleashes SmartMX2 Microcontroller for Secure Multi-Applications
NXP Semiconductors N.V. today launched the SmartMX2 – an all-new family of secure microcontrollers built on the groundbreaking IntegralSecurity™ architecture. The SmartMX2 is designed to provide unprecedented levels of security for multi-applications without compromising on convenience, performance or design productivity. With its flexibility and scalability, the SmartMX2 covers a wide range of applications such as eGovernment, banking, PayTV...
Sony Ericsson selects NXP’s NFC Solution for its Android-based Smartphones
NXP Semiconductors announced that its near field communication (NFC) technology has been selected by Sony Ericsson for inclusion in its Android-based smartphones. Sony Ericsson, a leading, global mobile handset manufacturer focused on communications and entertainment, will use NFC to further enhance its consumers’ mobile experiences, creating a portfolio of smartphones that enable mobile transactions. Using simple touch gestures, consumers wi...
Xilinx FPGAs Contribute to Global Standardization of Cryptographic Module Security Evaluation
Xilinx K.K., the Japanese subsidiary of Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX), today announced that the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan (AIST) selected Virtex-5 and Spartan-3A FPGA families for its SASEBO-GII boards for side channel attack standard evaluation and partial reconfiguration. The SASEBO-GII boards will enable the development and evaluation of performance and security of cryptographic circuits to contribut...
Ambarella A5s IP camera platform delivers industry-changing combination of image quality, HD H.264 multi-streaming, CPU flexibility, and low power consumption
Ambarella a leader in low-power, high-definition video compression and image processing semiconductors, today announced the availability of the A5s Media Processor for the IP camera and video surveillance markets. Building on the success of the A2, the HD IP camera chip used by most leading companies today, the new A5s delivers HD H.264 multi-streaming, best-in-class image quality, a flexible ARM11 CPU, and record low power to enable IP cameras f...