Secure-IC and Cortus combine threat protection and low power processor IP cores to enable the creation of silicon efficient card designs which maximize digital trust
Hong Kong: Cortus has announced that they are collaborating in providing low power secure solutions for smartcard developers. Securing smartcards below the OS is necessary to provide cards with a high degree of tamper-resistance. By offering security solutions tailored to a particular customer’s requirements, a good trade-off can be made between the degree of protection and the cost in silicon. Digital hardware counter-measures deliver a high degree of protection against non-invasive attacks and cyber-threats and, unlike analog threat protection methods, are easily targeted to different silicon technologies.“Secure-IC is extremely happy to work with Cortus on securing smart cards”, says Hassan Triqui, President and CEO of Secure-IC. He adds, “We plan to put our skills and intellectual property in security and cyber-proof components together with Cortus' low power processor technology in order to better serve our customers within a broad range of smartcard applications”.
“We are delighted to work with Secure-IC combining our complementary IP offerings”, says Michael Chapman, CEO and President of Cortus, “We have both worked with smart card companies through a partnership approach”. He adds, “Our collaboration should make it simpler to create differentiated secure products in the smart card field”.
Cortus is a technology leader in 32-bit processor IP delivering cores with small silicon footprints and low power consumption. Cortus IP has been foundational to a range of security applications including SIM cards, M2M controllers, PayTV cards, secure communication devices and secure execution environments. To date over 500 million devices have been manufactured containing Cortus processor cores.
Secure-IC is quickly becoming a thought leader in the creation of sustainable embedded technologies that strike the best balance between threat protection and product life-cycle pressures. Secure-IC delivers an advanced analysis platform and a broad range of IP cores to help its customers achieve the highest levels of security on any embedded system. Its technologies prevent hacking of any secure element, reverse engineering of any embedded system and theft of intellectual property. Secure-IC is a partner for maximizing digital trust