Our   collaboration   with   Intrinsic-ID   provides   designers    with   an advanced  security  solution  that   enables   them   to   combine  Intrinsic  ID’s  PUF   solution   and   Synopsys’   ARC EM Processors   with   SecureShield   technology   for a  faster, easier path to securing their IoT devices.

Microsemi is committed to providing the best security solutions in the FPGA market, and we’re pleased to partner with Intrinsic-ID to integrate their industry leading SRAM PUF technology into our SmartFusion®2 SoC FPGAs.

Intrinsic-ID   are   industry   leaders   in   offering   PUF   technology   and   our partnership   with   them   enables  us   to   build   into  our   high-performance   FPGAs   and   SoCs   security   features   that   are   unmatched   in   the  industry.

Adding PUF technology to SmartMX2 chips helps to alleviate user doubts as we bring more security and trust to smart life solutions and provide our customers with a key competitive edge. As such, we’re very happy to have entered into this contract with Intrinsic-ID, the undisputed leader in PUF.

We have one of the best equipped laboratories to help protect our clients’ credibility and brand image so new approaches to hardware security are of vital interest to us. After a set of experiments using voltage contrast techniques, we found none of the attacks to be successful against an SRAM – based PUF solution.

This extensive security evaluation of PUFs at 65 nm, in which Thales Communications &Security has taken part, is the first of its kind to go public. Beyond the protection against counterfeiting, PUFs can be used to securely conceal cryptographic keys used by functions such as local memory protection.