CEC1302 Microchip Technology's low-power, crypto-enabled embedded controller. Compared to firmware-based solutions, hardware-based cipher suites can significantly improve performance. It makes it easy to add security to Internet of Things (IoT) devices and provides easy-to-use encryption and authentication to increase programming flexibility and security.
The controller has a 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4 processor core with 128KB of SRAM, 32KB of boot ROM, and a hardware floating-point unit. It allows pre-boot authentication of system firmware to ensure that the firmware is unbroken and unbroken, preventing security attacks such as man-in-the-middle, denial of service, and backdoor vulnerabilities. It can also be used to verify any firmware update, thereby protecting the system from malware or memory corruption.
The device provides flexibility for private keys and customer programming through a fully featured microcontroller in a single package solution to minimize customer risk. It saves power and improves application performance execution. It can be used as a stand-alone security coprocessor or as a replacement for an existing microcontroller. The device's hardware-enabled public key engine is also 20 to 50 times faster than the firmware-enabled algorithm, and the hardware-enabled hash is 100 times faster.
