Dialog plans to use Intrinsic-ID on-chip security technology

Published:2012/4/28 3:19:00 Author:Ecco From:SeekIC

Fabless chip company Dialog Semiconductor plc announced that they had integrated security technology into its SC14453S voice-over-IP processor from startup Intrinsic-ID BV.

Dialog (Kirchheim-unter-Teck, Germany) plans to use the Intrinsic-ID technology to ensure that only authenticated software can run on the SC14453S platform. Intrinsic-ID core is used to store message authentication tag for a bootloader or software image of a particular customer without the need for embedded non-volatile memory, which would be a hacking weakness.

Intrinsic-ID (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) is a spin-off from Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) founded in 2008. It provides hardware and software IP to derive security from physical attributes of an integrated circuit that are unique to that circuit. This so-called Hardware Intrinsic Security IP (HIS) also referred to as Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) is similar to technology from Verayo Inc. (San Jose, Calif.). The resulting SafeKey solution for secure boot is programmable while providing authentication and top-level security at the same time.

According to the engineers of Intrinsic-ID, the HIS technology has been applied in set-top box, smartcards, FPGA, pay-TV, networking and other government applications.

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