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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 ...

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 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 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...

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.

Dialog Semiconductor plc today announced a high performance VoIP phone chipset, the SC14453. The single chip processor enters Dialog’s VoIP portfolio as its flagship product and integrates hardware blocks for best-in-class audio, security and graphics functionality. The SC14453 has been created for mid and high end desktop phones and extends Dialog’s portfolio - alongside Dialog’s SC14452 and SC14461 - of award winning Green VoIP ICs, which...

SiTel Semiconductor today announced how its successful collaboration with Target Compiler Technologies led to the creation of customized audio DSPs for its SC14452 Green VoIP processor. The DSPs combine extreme energy efficiency with high processing performance, enabling industry-leading audio quality and power consumption. Key components of the SC14452 that won a 2009 Frost and Sullivan Green Excellence Award, the DSPs were developed using Targe...

SiTel Semiconductor today announced that a solution combining its SC14452 Green VoIP processor and Rhea VoIP software suite has been formally validated with BroadSoft’s latest BroadWorks release (Release 16). This validation by BroadSoft proves that systems based on the SC14452 processor and the Rhea suite work properly with the BroadWorks SIP interface. As a result, developers of such systems can be confident their products will operate seamle...

Cryptography Research, Inc has announced that Trident Microsystems, Inc has integrated CRI’s CryptoFirewall TM security technology into Trident’s new TSC100 family of STB System on Chip. The advanced security measures provide a hardware foundation for conditional access and rights management systems in set top boxes using the Trident TSC100 family of STB SoCs

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.