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INSIDE Secure and IDT to offer easy-to-design USB security token solution
INSIDE Secure and Integrated Device Technology has announced that the two companies have collaborated to bring to market a compact, single-package secure microcontroller and oscillator solution that significantly reduces the bill of materials when designing USB tokens for authentication and digital signatures.
The weakest link in wireless access control
Wireless access control is only as strong as its weakest link, as Vivien Delport, Director of Applications Engineering Security, Microcontroller and Technology Division and Cristian Toma, Applications Engineer of Microchip Technology Inc. explain.
Cortus APS3 Processor Licensed by Certicom
Cortus today announced that Certicom, a wholly owned subsidiary of Research In Motion Limited (RIM), and an industry leader in Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) security has licensed the Cortus APS3 CPU for use in their hardware security technology. This technology enables chip manufacturers and other rights holders to securely manage their assets from the silicon foundry to their consumers. The Cortus APS3 processor was chosen for its ease of in...
picoChip drives femtocell market with second generation single-chip baseband processor family
picoChip has launched the PC3xx family, a new range of system-on-chip baseband processors specifically targeted at the fast-growing femtocell market. These second-generation devices incorporate picoChip’s field-proven modem software in a highly integrated form, enabling femtocell manufacturers to substantially reduce bill-of-materials while increasing performance. This cost reduction is a critical enabler for high-volume consumer femtocell de...
NXP Unlocks the Potential of Multifunction Car Keys
Pioneering the market for ‘smart’ car keys, NXP Semiconductors N.V. today announced the availability of its production-ready single-chip solution for multifunction car keys - the NCF2970 (KEyLink Lite). Enhancing the functionality of car keys by supporting Near Field Communications (NFC) technology, NXP’s KEyLink Lite enables car manufacturers to offer a new driving experience with keys that connect to external NFC-compliant devices, such a...
Atmel Launches Low-Power, Secure AES-128-based Transponder for Car Key Fob Applications
Atmel Corporation today announced the availability of a new secure, ultra-low-power micromodule transponder based on an Atmel AVR microcontroller (MCU). Used for remote keyless entry systems in vehicles, the ATA5580 transponder includes the Atmel open immobilizer protocol stack with a built-in, high-performance AES-128 hardware cryptographic unit, a low-frequency (LF) immobilizer interface for power supply and bi-directional communication, and an...
Freescale offers on-chip security features for prevention of automotive electronics tampering
The security of automotive electronics systems is an escalating topic of concern for automotive OEMs, owners and the insurance industry. Electronic control of automotive systems is steadily increasing, with large amounts of data streaming through body control modules (BCM)/gateways. Freescale Semiconductor is helping significantly reduce the security risks for that data with new additions to its MPC56xx family of Qorivva 32-bit microcontrollers (...
Express Logic’s NetX Achieves Near-Wire Speed on STM32 Platform
Express Logic, Inc. announced that its NetX Duo TCP/IP stack has achieved 93–95 Mbps, an outstanding near-wire speed on STM32F207 and STM32F217, STMicroelectronics’ ARM Cortex-M3 processors. NetX Duo, Express Logic’s dual IPv4/IPv6 TCP/IP stack, ships with over 12 application protocols, including DHCP, FTP, and many others, making it ideal for the small footprint, high-performance connectivity needs of today’s consumer, medical and indust...
Software Defined Silicon development kit from XMOS accelerates electronic design
XMOS Semiconductor has introduced a development kit providing everything needed to develop a wide range of applications using its XS1-G4 programmable device. Designs are created using a C-based software development flow that dramatically shortens the time required to build electronic products and systems.
Barco Silex presents enhanced version of Public Key hardware solution
Barco Silex, Barco's center of competence for electronic design, has announced an enhanced version of its Public Key Hardware Accelerator. The BA414E is the first member of a new generation of Crypto Intellectual Property (IP) cores developed, validated and licensed by Barco Silex.