QuickLogic, PQSecure Bring Reprogrammable Post-Quantum Cryptography to SoCs

QuickLogic has announced the results of a joint technical collaboration with PQSecure Technologies, demonstrating that PQSecure's CRYSTAL-1000C post-quantum cryptographic IP core can be efficiently implemented as a reprogrammable function within SoCs using QuickLogic's eFPGA Hard IP fabric.

The trade study implemented CRYSTAL-1000C, targeting the NIST-finalized standards FIPS 203 (ML-KEM) and FIPS 204 (ML-DSA), on QuickLogic eFPGA Hard IP built for the Intel 18A process node. The PQSecure core was successfully placed and routed within eFPGA IP cores already in use by QuickLogic customers in their ASICs, delivering sufficient performance for most applications while leaving substantial capacity headroom.

PQSecure's CRYSTALS product line is designed to be highly customizable across a wide range of use cases. SoC designers can use QuickLogic's Aurora programming tools to generate a project-specific resource report and determine the optimal eFPGA configuration for their crypto-agile security requirements, allowing them to right-size the eFPGA fabr...