Cryptography

At Hardware Pioneers Max 2025 we caught up with Lee Harrison, Director of Product Marketing at Siemens, and Dr. Shahram Mossayebi, Founder and CEO of Crypto Quantique, as part of our promotional coverage for the event. They discuss how design for test is a critical part of any semiconductor, but with DFT requirements around the collection of in-life silicon health ...

PQShield, a cybersecurity company specializing in post-quantum cryptography (PQC), has raised $37 million in Series B funding led by Addition, with participation from new investors Chevron Technology Ventures, Legal & General and Braavos Capital, together with existing backers, Oxford Science Enterprises. PQShield will use the funding to expand its commercial operations as it continues to meet growing global demand for ...

Alif Semiconductor’s 32bit ‘Ensemble’ AI-enabled MCUs are now available, according to the company. Built around various Arm cores with added security to protect stored intellectual property, they are intended to run AI algorithms locally in battery-powered devices. “There are many Edge ML applications that require 50 to 250Gop/s to become useful,” said Alif marketing v-p Mark Rootz. “Typical 32bit MCUs ...

Red Semiconductor and Crypto Quantique have signed a memorandum of understanding for the development of an edge computing microprocessor IC “enabling advanced quantum-based security”, according to the companies. Red is a fabless semiconductor company and Crypto Quantique has physically un-cloneable security intellectual property – both are based in the UK. “The chips, created by Red Semiconductor, will use Crypto Quantique’s ...

At Embedded World today, Microchip announced six secure authentication devices that meet Common Criteria Joint Interpretation Library (JIL) secure key storage, and support algorithms that comply with the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS). They are intended to be companion devices, compatible with any microprocessor or microcontroller. “This portfolio lowers the barrier to entry and enables developers of products for new ...

STMicroelectronics has created a 40nm Bluetooth LE 5.3 wireless microcontroller family centred around a 100MHz Arm Cortex-M33 core – that’s the security-enabled version of the Cortex-M3, which has TrustZone virtualisation. Called STM32WBA52, the ICs are similar to the company’s earlier Cortex-M4-based STM32WB wireless microcontrollers, and have a +10dBm 2Mbit/s 2.4GHz transceiver (10.6mA at 0dBm TX, 7.4mA Rx) that can support ...

Xiphera has announced intellectual property cores for implementing hardware post-quantum cryptography security on FPGAs and asics. Such security is executed on classical computing platforms to protect against quantum computing based attacks. Branded ‘xQlave’, the IP blocks are aimed at quantum-secure key exchange and digital signatures. “Powerful enough quantum computers will be able to break current public-key asymmetric cryptosystems based on ...

Kudelski IoT has announced a secure enclave intellectual property portfolio for integration into system ICs. When integrated, it is capable of “enabling compliance with most common industry security standards including NIST, FIPS, PSA and SESIP Level 3”, according to the company. Resulting hardware will be able to protect and manage keys, according to the company, providing SoC master secret key, ...

Secure Thingz has tied up with NXP to secure the storage on LPC55S6x microcontrollers equipped with a physical unclonable function (PUF) – secure development tools C-Trust and Embedded Trust, as well as the secure prototyping and production platform Secure Deploy, now cover the MCU family. Embedded Trust and C-Trust are integrated with the IAR Embedded Workbench (IAR owns Secure Thingz) as ...

Menta and Secure-IC are to add cryptographic features to FPGA intellectual property (IP). Under the agreement, announced at Embedded World in Nuremberg, the companies will deliver Menta eFPGAs incorporating cryptographic IP including AES and RSA from Secure-IC. “Security is fast becoming a defining feature of SoCs used in a variety of applications,” said Secure-IC CTO Sylvain Guilley. “The major challenge ...