TrustFLEX Appliances and Trust Platform Design Suite Tool Will Simplify Enabling Root of Trust from Concept to Production in Numerous Applications
Given the evolution of technological and cybersecurity standards, Microchip Technology facilitates access to embedded security solutions with its CEC1736 TrustFLEX devices. The CEC1736 Trust Shield family is a root of trust solution on a microcontroller-based platform that provides cyber resilience to applications in data centers, telecommunications, networking, embedded computing and industry. These devices, which are now within the TrustFLEX platform, are partially configured and incorporate Soteria-G3 firmware underwritten by Microchip to shorten the development time required to integrate the platform's root of trust. These devices also help streamline the delivery of required cryptographic assets and subscribed firmware images, thereby simplifying the secure manufacturing process in accordance with NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) and OCP (Open Compute Project) standards.
CEC1736 TrustFLEX devices, which have been specially designed to follow NIST 800-193 platform guidelines as well as OCP requirements, can provide the security features necessary to enable hardware root of trust in multiple markets. The tool Trust Platform Design Suite will allow customers to customize platform-specific configuration settings, including unique credentials, to support any application, core processor or SoC installed on an external SPI Flash device to extend system root of trust.
“Microchip has led the market in optimizing secure delivery, from design to deployment of any number of devices and platforms. “This broad solution offering now includes OCP-compliant root of trust devices,” said Nuri Dagdeviren, corporate vice president of Microchip's secure computing group. “With the pre-configured CEC1736 TrustFLEX family, we make it easier for customers to implement the platform's root of trust, accelerate prototype development and shorten time to market.”
Modern firmware security features offered by CEC1736 TrustFLEX, such as SPI bus monitoring, secure boot, component credentialing, and lifecycle management, can protect preboot and real-time (check-time and time-of-use) environments from to in-person and remote threats.
Highly configurable, mixed-signal, CEC1736 controllers with advanced I/O integrate the core of an Arm processor® Cortex®-M4 32-bit 96 MHz with tightly coupled memory to optimize code execution and data access.
Development tools
Microchip's comprehensive ecosystem of tools makes it easy to develop early designs. CEC1736 TrustFLEX Configurator, part of the Trust Platform Design Suite, provides a visual image of different use cases for selecting, configuring and generating a package intended for development, prototyping and production. The CEC1736 development board incorporates a socket to facilitate evaluation and development.
Prices and availability
For more information and purchases, contact a Microchip sales representative or authorized distributor, or visit the Microchip Purchasing and Customer Service website.
