Dialog signs up to use Intrinsic-ID on-chip security

Dialog signs up to use Intrinsic-ID on-chip security - EE Times

Dialog signs up to use Intrinsic-ID on-chip security Peter Clarke 4/27/2012 8:28 AM EDT LONDON – Fabless chip company Dialog Semiconductor plc has integrated security technology from startup Intrinsic-ID BV into its SC14453S voice-over-IP processor. Intrinsic-ID (Eindhoven, The Netherlands), founded as a spin-off from Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) in 2008, 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.). In both the Verayo and Intrinsic-ID HIS offerings a secret key is extracted like a silicon biometric or fingerprint from silicon hardware directly and only when required. Dialog (Kirchhei...

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