Microsemi and Athena Announce FPGA Cores with Strong DPA Countermeasures for Cryptography Users
ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Oct. 13, 2015 – Microsemi Corporation (MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, and The Athena Group, Inc. (Athena), a leading provider of security, cryptography, anti-tamper and signal processing intellectual property (IP) cores, today announced a comprehensive portfolio of IP cores with state-of-the-art side channel analysis (SCA) and differential power analysis (DPA) countermeasures. The new portfolio, based on Athena’s TeraFire® cryptographic microprocessor family, is designed for users of Microsemi’s award-winning SmartFusion™2 system-on-chip (SoC) field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and IGLOO™2 FPGAs.