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 8 other companies.

The security of automotive communications mirrors the need for security in the Internet of Things, and MicroSemi is looking to use a key technology to make those machine-to-machine connections secure, from the node to the cloud.
It has licensed technology from Intrinsic-ID to use the unique variability in the silicon structure of SRAM devices to create a physically encodable function, a unique signature on every power-up called the physical unclonable function (PUF). “This becomes a seed for PKI key infrastructure where only the chip knows the private key and doesn’t vary,” says Russ Garcia, EVP of Worldwide Marketing at MicroSemi.

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