Developer and supplier of semiconductors’ embedded software,
Inside Secure is partnering Integrated Device Technology (IDT) to offer
easy-to-design Universal Serial Bus (USB) security solution.
A joint press statement from the two firms showed that the
collaboration would avail versatile, secure microcontroller and low-power,
stable 48-MHz CMOS oscillator in a single package.
The two companies said they 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.
They also said the product is available now in different
package standards (SOIC8 or QFN20), the INSIDE/IDT offering combines the
security, cryptography and connectivity features of the high-performance,
low-power INSIDE Secure AT90SO72 secure microcontroller with the stability of
the ultra-low power IDT 3MN11G CrystalFree (TM) CMOS oscillator to create the
perfect solution for applications where low cost and reduced size are most
critical.
“Based on customer feedback, INSIDE has optimized the size
and cost of the AT90SO72 to make it particularly well-suited as a secure
microcontroller to drive USB authentication and signature tokens,” said
Christian Fleutelot, general manager of the Vault-IC SAS business unit and
executive vice president for digital security, at INSIDE Secure.
He added that guided by the same strategy, INSIDE has now
partnered with IDT to provide a very compact solution that makes the design of
USB secure smart objects much easier and cost effective.
He listed some of the
technological features to include that based on a high-performance, low-power,
8/16-bit enhanced RISC Computer Processing Unit (CPU) and is common criteria
EAL5+ ready, it features a hardware random number generator, hardware AES
(128-, 192- and 256-bit key supported), DES and triple DES.
The offer also includes the exclusive INSIDE Ad-X(TM)2
advanced hardware crypto accelerator, which supports RSA up to 4096 bits, DSA,
Diffie-Hellman and all FIPS-recommended elliptic curves up to 1024 bits.
Key
generation is also supported for both RSA and Elliptic Curve Cryptography
(ECC).
The AT90SO72 offers a USB 2.0 interface with six software-configurable
data transfer endpoints with in-or-out (I/O) directions for bulk, interrupt or
isochronous transfers. The flexible I/O options also include a master/slave
Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) controller, I2C (two-wire) controller, up to
seven GPIO lines and an ISO 7816 interface.
The AT90SO72 features 288K bytes of
ROM and 72K bytes of high-density EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable
Read-Only Memory), which can be mapped as part of the program memory to provide
a highly flexible and cost-effective solution for many applications.
“As the
recognized leader in silicon timing, IDT is constantly expanding its product
and technology portfolio. The CrystalFree CMOS oscillators are an ideal example
of a compelling customer timing solution,” said Scott Hills, marketing director
of the silicon frequency control product line at IDT.
“We are pleased that
INSIDE Secure selected IDT’s CMOS oscillator for USB token solutions where low
power and small package size are crucial.”
Remmy Nweke
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