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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...

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 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...

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 (...

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.

Freescale Semiconductor announced today it is offering expanded security capabilities for its MQX™ real-time operating system (RTOS) by integrating source code versions of Mocana’s NanoSSL™ and NanoSSH™ software. Freescale customers can download and unlock special MQX-optimised versions of Mocana’s code for just $199 (USD) through Freescale and redistribute an unlimited number of binary copies in their own solutions, royalty-free.

Today at Embedded World Nuremberg 2011, Atmel Corporation announced a new, easy-to-use cryptographic authentication device with enhanced hardware security features and increased flexibility. The ultra-low power Atmel ATSHA204 is the first turnkey, optimized authentication device to include a 4.5Kbit EEPROM and a hardware SHA-256 accelerator. Fully tested ASF software libraries are available for Atmel AVR® and ARM®-based microcontrollers a...

Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced the release of a complete immobilizer protocol stack, based on the AES-128 cryptography standard, under an open source license. As the industry's first to deliver this open source immobilizer protocol stack, Atmel shows its commitment to the worldwide automotive market and helps improve an engineer's time-to-market with their designs.

NXP has announced that its secure contactless microcontroller chip – SmartMX, has been selected by the VDV-Kernapplikations GmbH & Co. KG, to power future electronic transport ticketing schemes in Germany. Alongside card and inlay-manufacturer Cardag, NXP will provide SmartMX ICs for around eight million contactless cards to be issued throughout Germany by 2012. The aim of the scheme is to provide a single ticketing solution that will be used a...

Sr. Defense Architect Jim Anderson shows how Xilinx defense-grade Virtex FPGAs enable the highest level of information assurance with Type-1 Single-chip Cryptography in a UAV application.