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PolarFire FPGAs verified for single-chip cryptography design flow

PolarFire FPGAs verified for single-chip cryptography design flow

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By Jean-Pierre Joosting



The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has reviewed Microchip Technology’s PolarFire® FPGAs when used with the Single-Chip Crypto Design Flow against stringent device-level resiliency requirements.

System architects and designers now have further evidence of the security of their communications, industrial, aerospace, defense, nuclear and other systems relying on PolarFire FPGAs.

“The NCSC conducts a very rigorous analysis, and the work done with Microchip on the Design Separation Methodology in the PolarFire FPGA enables the user to take advantage of improved resilience and functional isolation within the device. This reinforces Microchip’s commitment to our comprehensive approach to security,” said Tim Morin, technical fellow at Microchip’s FPGA business unit. “This analysis provides the option for single-chip cryptography in addition to what already exists within the devices for protecting IP, securing data and protection against physical tampering—an often overlooked and very powerful threat to every electronic system, especially those at the intelligent edge.”

PolarFire FPGAs implement Microchip’s industry-leading security architecture to protect intellectual property, secure data and secure supply chains.

PolarFire FPGA IP protection includes:

  1. AES 256-encrypted configuration files with SHA 256-based HMAC authentication.
  2. Processing is protected against Differential Power Analysis (DPA) with technology licensed from Cryptography Research Incorporated (CRI).
  3. Public key cryptographic cores: Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) for secure distribution of keys.
  4. True random number generators.

PolarFire FPGA data security features include:

  1. Hardened cryptographic accelerators for use in the end application
  2. Pass-through CRI license enables royalty-free development of DPA-protected algorithms using techniques patented by CRI

PolarFire FPGA supply chain security features reduce the risk of counterfeiting, re-marking and overbuilding and include:

  1. Silicon biometrics, including Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs), that allow each device to be uniquely identified and cryptographically validated

 

PolarFire FPGAs lead their product category in delivering twice the power efficiency, military-grade security and the industry’s highest reliability, which the company will extend with the PolarFire 2 FPGA roadmap as Microchip continues to increase compute capability in ever-smaller and less costly industrial, IoT and other edge-compute products. With their real-time, Linux®-capable RISC-V-based microprocessor subsystem, PolarFire SoC devices are the only SoCs on the market that create new configurable processing capabilities through hardened RISC-V core complexes in a fast FPGA fabric.

The devices are supported by Microchip’s Libero® SoC Design Suite available to license, including no-charge versions, from the purchasing and client services website at www.microchipdirect.com. PolarFire FPGA and SoC development kits and hardware are also available

www.microchip.com

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