QuickLogic, Intrinsic ID team on eFPGA security solutions
安全选项范围从基于SRAM PUF的安全密钥生成到完整的安全解决方案，包括BITSTREAM加密，密钥包装，身份验证标签，密钥验证和数据加密/解密，用于在设备内或板或系统级通信中存储。这些公司说，这种合作伙伴关系已经建立了两家公司解决方案的无缝集成，从而使QuickLogic的EFPGA客户无需任何进一步的集成工作而添加了安全功能。
“The collaboration between Intrinsic ID and QuickLogic has resulted in multiple solutions for SoC customers who wish to secure critical IP, entire designs, or even system-level communications,” says Mao Wang, senior marketing director at QuickLogic. “This security complements the flexibility inherent in eFPGA-based SoCs and is an excellent fit for a wide variety of industrial IoT and other applications including aerospace and defense.”
Intrinsic ID’s solutions are based on Physical Unclonable Functions, or PUFs, which are unique physical characteristic of a specific device that can be used to generate a device-specific encryption key. For SoCs using eFPGA technology, the PUF can be standard SRAM cells or FPGA logic cells specifically configured for PUF purposes.
无论哪种情况，PUF都会使每个设备都有独特的数字指纹，可以在需要时用来生成加密根键。这种方法避免需要存储钥匙，从而将其暴露于黑客。它还确保每个键是生成特定设备的独特之处。
In addition to PUF-based key generation, Intrinsic ID offers a complete SoC security solution called QuiddiKey, which adds functionality including encrypting secret keys and data, deriving wrapping keys to protect other functions, adding authentication tags, and verifying authentication tags and decrypting the associated contents. The benefits of this approach include offering a higher level of security than traditional key storage, enabling the creation and storage of an unlimited number of secure keys, and minimizing hardware overhead.
QuiddiKey also enables the wrapping of keys used for bitstream encryption with device unique keys, allowing device owners to protect the device and valuable IP so a trusted supply chain is guaranteed. In short, QuiddiKey is a complete centralized key management solution providing exceptionally reliable secure key storage for devices using even the most advanced technology nodes.
“QuickLogic’s Australis eFPGA generator and eFPGA technology give SoC developers a quick and easy way to embed programmable technology into their devices,” says Pim Tuyls, CEO at Intrinsic ID. “Our partnership with QuickLogic adds a level of security to these programmable logic architectures enabling customers to further enhance their platforms with high security for protecting their critical IP, communications, and supply chains.”
QuickLogic’s eFPGA technology is available now for a wide range of popular foundries and process nodes.
