Microsemi's Ultra-secure SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs and IGLOO2 FPGAs Recognized on EDN's List of Hot 100 Products of 2014

The Industry's Most Secure SoC FPGAs are Amongst the Hottest Technologies Protecting the Internet of Things (IoT)

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Dec 17, 2014, 07:00 ET

ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Dec. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, today announced its SmartFusion2® SoC FPGAs and IGLOO2® FPGAs were recognized among the Hot 100 Products of 2014 by EDN. Among the many thousands of products announced during the past year industry wide, Microsemi's ultra-secure SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs and IGLOO2 FPGAs advanced security features caught the attention of EDN's editors, who named them to their list of the hottest technology trends in the Programmable Logic product category. To read the story, visit: http://www.edn.com/electronics-products/other/4437460/EDN-Hot-100-products-of-2014.

The new data security features are part of Microsemi's mainstream SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs and IGLOO2 FPGAs. According to the Aberdeen Group, by the year 2020 approximately 50 billion machines will be connected. In the emerging era of connected devices, these machines need not only to be secure, but they need to be secure at the device, design and system levels. For example, even a machine or system that meets Advance Encryption Standard (AES) could be vulnerable to side channel attacks. Microsemi's differential power analysis (DPA) countermeasure solution increases overall system security by protecting the keys that are stored in the system, protecting it against such attacks.

"Even at a time when security is constantly in the public eye, most of the FPGAs being used to develop mainstream applications for connected devices do not necessarily offer the level of security needed to protect data and valuable application IP," said Bruce Weyer, vice president and business unit manager, SoC Products Group at Microsemi. "Microsemi's new FPGA security features provide that added layer of protection crucial for these new industrial and commercial solutions."

"Providing our customers with security solutions at the device, design and system levels is one of the key reasons Microsemi has the most secure SoC FPGAs available," Weyer said. "We are excited our approach is recognized by EDN as an important aspect of securing many of the new applications and solutions in the IoT."

Microsemi's newest generation of SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA and IGLOO2 FPGA programmable devices are the industry's most secure, with three key elements covering secure hardware, design security and data security. Built through a secure supply chain management system, Microsemi data security devices feature:

Licensed, patent-protected DPA resistance from Cryptography Research, Inc.
Active tamper detectors including an active mesh
Secure flash key storage
Unique key generation through Intrinsic ID's Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) Quiddikey-Flex
Full NIST-certified crypto accelerators

For more information on how to use these advanced data security features in SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs and IGLOO2 FPGAs on the SmartFusion2 Security Kit visit: www.microsemi.com/enhancedfpgadatasecurity.

About Microsemi's SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs
Microsemi's SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs are the only devices that address fundamental requirements for advanced security, high reliability and low power in critical industrial, military, aviation, communications and medical applications. SmartFusion2 integrates an inherently reliable flash-based FPGA fabric, a 166 megahertz (MHz) ARM® Cortex™-M3 processor, advanced security processing accelerators, DSP blocks, SRAM, eNVM and industry-required high-performance communication interfaces all on a single chip. For more information visit: http://www.microsemi.com/products/fpga-soc/soc-fpga/smartfusion2.

About IGLOO2 FPGAs
Microsemi's IGLOO2 FPGAs continue the company's focus on addressing the needs of today's cost-optimized FPGA market by providing a LUT-based fabric, 5G transceiver, high speed GPIO, block RAM, high-performance memory subsystem, and DSP blocks in a differentiated, cost and power optimized architecture. This next generation IGLOO2 architecture offers up to five times more logic density and three times more fabric performance than its predecessors and combines a non-volatile Flash-based fabric with the highest number of general purpose I/O, 5G SERDES interfaces and PCIe end points when compared to other products in its class. IGLOO2 FPGAs offer best-in-class feature integration coupled with the lowest power, highest reliability and most advanced security in the industry. For more information visit: http://www.microsemi.com/products/fpga-soc/fpga/igloo2-fpga.

About Microsemi
Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC) offers a comprehensive portfolio of semiconductor and system solutions for communications, defense & security, aerospace and industrial markets. Products include high-performance and radiation-hardened analog mixed-signal integrated circuits, FPGAs, SoCs and ASICs; power management products; timing and synchronization devices and precise time solutions, setting the world's standard for time; voice processing devices; RF solutions; discrete components; security technologies and scalable anti-tamper products; Power-over-Ethernet ICs and midspans; as well as custom design capabilities and services. Microsemi is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, Calif., and has approximately 3,400 employees globally. Learn more at www.microsemi.com.

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