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QuickLogic Partners with Intrinsic ID to Provide eFPGA Security Solutions
Delivers high quality security solutions for SoCs with eFPGA technologyProvides multiple security options for wide range of applications ranging from
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[{"type":"text","content":"Delivers high quality security solutions for SoCs with eFPGA technologyProvides multiple security options for wide range of applications ranging from industrial IoT to aerospace and defenseEnables eFPGA and device-level SoC security for any foundry or process nodeSAN JOSE, Calif. and SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), a developer of ultra-low power multi-core voice-enabled SoCs, embedded FPGA IP, and Endpoint AI solutions, today announced that it has partnered with Intrinsic ID, the world's leading provider of Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) security IP, to provide security options for devices incorporating embedded FPGA (eFPGA) technology. These options range from secure key generation based on SRAM PUF to full security solutions including bitstream encryption, key wrapping, authentication tags, key verification, and data encryption/decryption for storage within the device or for board or system-level communications. This partnership has created a seamless integration of the solutions of both companies, allowing QuickLogic's eFPGA customers to add security functionality without any further integration effort.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nIntrinsic ID's solutions are based on Physical Unclonable Functions, or PUFs, which are unique physical characteristic of a specific device that can be used to generate a device-specific encryption key. For SoCs using eFPGA technology, the PUF can be standard SRAM cells or FPGA logic cells specifically configured for PUF purposes. In either case, the PUF gives each individual device a unique digital fingerprint, which can be used to generate an encryption root key whenever it is needed. This approach avoids the need to store the key and thus expose it to hackers. It also ensures that each key is unique to the specific device in which it is generated.\nIn addition to PUF-based key generation, Intrinsic ID offers a complete SoC security solution called QuiddiKey, which adds functionality including encrypting secret keys and data, deriving wrapping keys to protect other functions, adding authentication tags, and verifying authentication tags and decrypting the associated contents. The benefits of this approach include offering a higher level of security than traditional key storage, enabling the creation and storage of an unlimited number of secu...