Secure Sensors, Secure SERDES and Secure Clocking with Clock-less Oscillators
Sunnyvale, CA -- October 1, 2013 – Analog Bits (www.analogbits.com), the leading supplier of mixed-signal IP (Intellectual Property), today revealed a new family of semiconductor IP products to increase on-chip security. These products will reduce vulnerability to malicious attacks by incorporating crystal-less oscillator technology, on-die sensors, real-time loggers and other unique features.
In a presentation at TSMC’s 2013 Open Innovation Platform (OIP) Ecosystem Forum, the President and CTO of Analog Bits, Alan Rogers, explains: “Security concerns are an issue for us all. Hacking into a game consoleor TV might mean people secretly watching you at home. Hacking a phone can mean getting access to credit card information. As more devices connect to the network, the number of possible points of attack goes up – along with the need for semiconductor solutions. One way that devices are attacked is through manipulating their clock. Another approach is by manipulating a chip’s voltage. By incorporating crystal-less oscillators, sensors logs and other secret features into the chip design, these attacks can be thwarted.â€
Speaking from their booth at OIP, Mahesh Tirupattur, Analog Bits Executive Vice President commented, “This new family of products is a direct response to our customers’ requests because they see security as important. As a result, we’ve created three packages or subsystems to deal with marketneeds. Secure Clocking will inhibit and track clock-related attacks. Secure SERDES creates a virtual barrier around the serial I/O. Secure Sensors isolate the clock while monitoring changes in voltage that could cause partial reset conditions. These and other more proprietary features provide a strong resistance to hardware attacks.â€
Analog Bits is demonstrating these and other new technologies at TSMC’s 2013 OIP Ecosystem Forum in Santa Clara, CA.
Analog Bits delivers industry-leading, mixed signal IP solutions. The current product portfolio includesenergy-efficient and low-area SERDES, PVT sensors, ultralow-jitter clocks, memory interfaces and I/O’s, available onevery mainstream manufacturing process. Customers’applications span a wide range including: smart phones,tablets, energy-efficient servers and telecommunications equipment - all leveraging Analog Bits’ highly differentiated IP products.
To learn more about Analog Bits’ broad range of low-power, mixed-signal IP products including our differentiating SERDESIP, visit www.analogbits.com
About Analog Bits
Founded in 1995, Analog Bits, Inc. is the leading supplier of mixed-signal IP witha reputation for easy and reliable integration into advancedSOCs. Our products include precision clocking macros such as PLLs & DLLs, programmable interconnect solutions such as multi-protocol SERDES and programmable I/Os as well as specialized memories such as high-speed SRAMs and TCAMs. With billions of IP cores fabricated in customer silicon, from 0.35- micron to 20-nm processes, Analog Bits has an outstanding heritage of "first-time-working†with foundries and IDMs.