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Low power non-volatile memory IP for ID/tag chip design
Synopsys has announced the Multiple-Time Programmable (MTP) Ultra Low-Power (ULP) Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) IP for designing RFID/NFC ICs. Synopsys claims this new DesignWare AEON MTP ULP NVM IP cuts power consumption by up to 90 percent compared to the previous generation by offering a single-
3 min readAsia with 85% share lead in issuing electronic Driving Licenses
IMS Research finds only 12% of the total 1.4 billion driving licenses worldwide are smart card type documents. IMS says Asia is found to be the region with the largest installed base of electronic Driving Licenses (eDL), accounting for almost 85 percent of the total eDL install base in 2012. Japa
3 min readSOC security design; fast emerging new area in VLSI design
SOC security design is fast emerging as another area of VLSI design, where expertise is evolving to protect the sensitive data in the physical part of the chip from hackers. Hackers may access the internal parts or the circuitry of the chip to make it malfunction or to access the identity and other
4 min readSecurity processor: 40Gb/s throughput with simultaneous compression
Exar has added XR9200 coprocessor family to its family of security processors. The XR9200 targets applications for the data analytics, storage, and cloud security markets, which include Data Warehouses, Hadoop Clusters, Storage Arrays, Application Delivery Controllers (ADC), WAN Optimization Applian
3 min readMicrosemi licenses security IP from cryptography research
Microsemi has licensed Security IP from Cryptography Research of Rambus to build tamper-resistant semiconductor chips for certain government applications, making chips significantly more difficult to emulate, clone or reverse engineer, otherwise making the counterfeits of chips very difficult.
2 min readNFC business cards launched by Bangalore start-up
Bangalore-based technology start-up called Tagtual has announced launching of India’s first NFC [Near Field Communication] Business Cards. “NFC’s Business cards break the monotony of digging for a lost card on your desk or in the bag” said Sharjeel Ahmed, CEO of Tagtual. “These business cards b
1 min readMIFARE4Mobile is gaining popularity
The MIFARE4Mobile Industry Group has said its newly released MIFARE4Mobile V2 specifications is signed by 150 different companies in the Near Field Communication (NFC) ecosystem for use in their systems. MIFARE DESFire used to have secured access to public transport systems; university and colle
2 min readWalls and concrete structures can be embedded with electronics
Princeton University researchers have tried to integrate electronic circuit inside walls and such structures. The researchers have embedded very thin radios on plastic sheets, which can be applied to walls. The transistors for the electronic circuit is built using a kind of similar to printing tec
2 min readINSIDE Secure licensed TrustedShow DRM technology from Trustonic
INSIDE Secure has licensed TrustedShow digital rights management (DRM) technology from Trustonic, and incorporated it into its DRM Fusion Agent solution for embedded development. With the TrustedShow technology, INSIDE says its embedded DRM Fusion client software now offers full ARM TrustZone suppor
3 min readResearchers find security holes in present encryption tech
In this connected world, much of the devices and systems use data encryption for security. How safe is this data encryption? Well, researchers found it is not so secure as we thought. Researchers at MIT and the National University of Ireland (NUI) at Maynooth finds the present encryption technology
4 min readCrypto IC from Altis packs several encryption engines
Altis Semiconductor has said it has developed an crypto IC powered by a 32bit RISC processor and supporting encryption such as AES 256 with 8 modes (ECB, CBC, OFB, CFB, CTR, CCM, GCM and XTS), RSA 4096bits, ECC, Diffie-Hellman, El-Gamal, and various SHAs. The hardware based AIS 31 True Random Numbe
2 min readTop 3 NFC IC vendors by ABI: NXP, Inside Secure, and STMicroelectronics
ABI Research has ranked NXP Semiconductors, Inside Secure, and STMicroelectronics as top 3 vendors of NFC ICs. On eight key criterias in supplying NFC modems/controllers and secure elements NXP is ranked first position overall and topped the Implementation category. It was the most successful vend
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