Renesas protects IoT IP from cradle to grave

Renesas has released more details of its Synergy secure cradle-to-grave management system for programmable devices, and announced a beta release.

BY Steven Bush, Electronics Weekly, Mar. 10, 2016 – 

"Secure life-cycle management is the foundation to maintaining the integrity of end-products," said the firm. "The Synergy Platform Device Lifecycle Management [DLM] solution consists of Synergy security MCUs plus the associated Synergy software and tools enabling OEMs to better protect their software intellectual property IP from theft and cloning during manufacture, to inhibit counterfeit products, and to ensure authenticity when deploying secure remote firmware updates to end-products already in the field."

The components are:

• Synergy MCUs, pre-programmed at Renesas to establish a root-of-trust that uniquely personalises each device.
• Software drivers, APIs, and middleware from Renesas to enable the MCUs at the device level.
• Example tools to manage, deploy, and program encrypted firmware files securely into MCUs on the production line and in the field.
• A development kit to simulate and evaluate the secure manufacturing and remote update scenarios.

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