EETimes: New Advances in FPGA Security
by Max Maxfield As I mentioned in my Cyber Insecurity column a few days ago, any system is only as secure as its weakest link. In order to protect a system, we need a layered approach to secure: The Hardware:…
EETimes on PUF: Security features for non-security experts
By Jim Turley, EE Times When you feel sick, do you immediately enroll in a university course in medicine and wait until you’ve graduated to treat yourself? When your car breaks down, do you change careers and devote yourself to…
Altera Reveals Stratix 10 with Intrinsic-ID's PUF technology
Today, Altera revealed Stratix 10 with Innovations Enabling the Industry’s Fastest and Highest Capacity FPGAs and SoCs. One of the highlights is what Altera calls the Industry’s most comprehensive high-performance FPGA security capabilities enabled through an innovative Secure Device Manager…
Semiconductor Engineering on Physically Unclonable Functions
by Ernest Northman Using PUFs to secure and protect ICs. Physically unclonable functions (PUFs) are emerging as a novel way to protect a variety of ICs. In today’s world of cyber threats, vulnerabilities, insecure networks and hardware, and intrusions, it…
EETimes: Dutch government pushes for PUFs in smartphones
by Julien Happich With its Bring Your Own Security (BYOS) Project, Intrinsic-ID ranked first out of 73 other proposals, when the Dutch company responded to a procurement for the national government of the Netherlands under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)…
EE Times: Microsemi & Intrinsic-ID Team To Offer Extreme-Security FPGAs & Systems
by: Max Maxfield Security is becoming a key concern for a wide variety of electronic systems. In the case of medical devices, for example, it's critical to ensure that no one can gain unauthorized access to the system for nefarious…
EE Journal: Securing Your System with FPGAs, Microsemi Introduces FPGA-based Hardened PUFs
by Kevin Morris Security used to be the purview of the select few - those working on defense projects, financial systems, or other “high-security” devices and platforms. Today, however, with IoT, wearables, connected cars, smartphones, tablets, and so forth, everything…
Unclonable' FPGAs deliver ultra-secure IoT devices
by Eleanor Burns| 08 January 2015 Microsemi now integrating Physically Unclonable Function technology for it's flagship FPGAs. Addressing cyber-security concerns, Microsemi's SmartFusion 2 SoC FPGAs and IGLOO 2 FPGAs are now offered with Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) technology. The technology,…
Microsemi announces 2 FPGAs with Intrinsic ID's PUF technology
Microsemi announces SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs and IGLOO2 FPGAs Enhanced with Physically Unclonable Function Technology - ideal for IoT Applications. Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, today announced the latest…
EETimes selects Microsemi's PUF-enabled FPGA as top tech for IoT
Microsemi’s SoC FPGA security solution has been selected as one of the “9 Top Tech from Electronica 2014” for Securing the Internet of Things. At the Electronica trade-show in Munich, which celebrates its 50th year, Microsemi was selected together with…