Nov. 05, 2025 –
Hardware implementations of NIST’s ML-KEM and ML-DSA algorithms enable efficient, quantum-safe security across ASIC and FPGA platforms.
Woodcliff Lake, NJ — November 5, 2025 — Semiconductor IP provider CAST today announced the release of the KiviPQC™ Family — a suite of hardware IP cores that bring quantum-safe cryptography to ASIC and FPGA designs.
Implementing the NIST-standardized ML-KEM and ML-DSA algorithms (FIPS 203 & 204), the KiviPQC cores enable system designers to deploy post-quantum-resistant security today, protecting products for decades to come.
The family now includes:
Each KiviPQC Family core is offered in Fast and Tiny versions. The Fast cores deliver enhanced performance through dedicated accelerators and optimized internal routing, while the Tiny variants achieve exceptionally low area and power footprints. All employ a RISC-V-based SoC topology and AMBA® AXI4-Lite interfaces, simplifying SoC integration.
While other IP suppliers offer separate ML-KEM and ML-DSA cores, very few offer a true dual-mode core with both functions in one efficient package like the KiviCore-Box. It cleverly leverages shared hardware resources between KEM and DSA operations, offering dual-function post-quantum capability in roughly the same footprint as a single-function core.
“With quantum-capable computers likely becoming a real-world threat to today’s security measures within the next 15 years, this KiviPQC Family gives designers a practical way to start building true quantum-safe systems now,” said George Athanasiou, security IP product manager for CAST. “These cores combine compliance with the latest NIST standards, outstanding efficiency, and the flexibility to protect everything from IoT nodes to national-infrastructure systems.”
Quantum-Safe Performance with Real-World Practicality
Sourced from KiviCore, the KiviPQC cores offload heavy cryptographic workloads to hardware, delivering high throughput with low latency and power consumption. They feature:
These attributes make the KiviPQC cores a good choice for secure key exchange and digital signing, as well as ensuring long-term data integrity in applications such as:
Part of the Broad CAST Security IP Portfolio
The KiviPQC family extends CAST’s growing Security IP Cores portfolio, which covers multiple layers of hardware security:
This modular set of security IP cores allows developers to choose precisely the IP blocks they need — from lightweight crypto accelerators to full Root-of-Trust platforms — to build future-proof, globally compliant, and quantum-ready SoCs.
Availability
The Fast KiviPQC-KEM core shipped in March 2025 and is now joined by the Tiny KiviPQC-KEM, KiviPQC-DSA, and KiviPQC-Box cores. All are available today with royalty-free licensing, in synthesizable RTL for ASICs and optimized netlists for FPGAs. For more information, including sample ASIC and FPGA implementation results, visit the CAST Post-Quantum Crypto IP Cores page or contact info@cast-inc.com.
About CAST
Computer Aided Software Technologies, Inc. (CAST) is a silicon IP provider founded in 1993. The company’s ASIC and FPGA IP product line includes microcontrollers and processors; compression engines for data, images, and video; interfaces for automotive, aerospace, and other applications; various common peripheral devices; and security primitives and comprehensive SoC security modules. Learn more by visiting www.cast-inc.com.