Imagination’s OmniShield enables next-generation SoC security

Security is the biggest concern in today's connected electronics, where most of the devices are IOT supportive and are capable of connecting to multiple devices and lot of personal information is moved between. SOC designers are trying to secure their chips at processor core level. Imagination is securing SoC designs based on MIPS and PowerVR processor cores and other SOC IPs with a technology called OmniShield. OmniShield is scalable security tech where applications are effectively and reliably isolated from each other as well as protected from non-secure applications without affecting functionality, performance, cost, and power consumption. In OmniShield technology, each secure/non-secure application/operating system can operate independently in its own separate environment. A good example is the financial transaction processes such as DRM and payment systems can exist with non-secure processes such as gaming and web browsing but are isolated from each other. OmniShield allows developers to write and debug the code in a virtualised environment, and operators and other service providers can configure devices for provisioning of services in the field. In case of a heterogenous architecture where data is moved across different processor chips such as graphic processor, OmniShield is equally scalable for such kind of requirements too. Where the protection is equal...