Microchip Technology

Microchip’s CEC1302 is a low-power crypto-embedded controller that easily and quickly allows for pre-boot authentication of the system firmware. This ensures that the firmware is untouched and uncorrupted thereby preventing security attacks such as man-in-the-middle, denial of service and backdoor vulnerabilities. It can also be used to authenticate any firmware updates, protecting the system from malware or memory corruption. Key benefits of the CEC1302 include significant performance improvement over firmware security solutions. The 32-bit ARM® Cortex®M4 processor core can be used as standalone microcontroller.  Easy-to-use authentication, private key and customer programming flexibility minimize customer risk. A complete set of third-party development tools is available to help get your design to market. Support is included for Microchip CEC1302 in IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM (EWARM) 7.70. MikroElektronika provides a complete development toolchain for Microchip CEC1302 ARM® Cortex®-M4 MCUs, including Compilers, Development Boards, Programmers / Debuggers. **Family parts**CEC1302D-C0-SZ

CEC1702 is a full-featured ARM® Cortex®-M4-based microcontroller with a complete hardware cryptography-enabled solution in a single package that enables secure boot of system firmware. This low-power but powerful, programmable 32-bit microcontroller protects secrets with encryption and validates firmware has been digitally signed and untouched using public key cryptography. The device provides significant performance improvements when compared to firmware-based solutions. Its hardware cryptographic cipher suite reduces compute time by orders of magnitude over software solutions, and, as an example, provides 20x-50x performance improvement for PKE acceleration as well as 100x improvement for encryption/decryption. This robust hardware-based feature set results in applications that can run security measures quickly, effectively and with significantly lower cost and power consumption. **Family parts** CEC1702Q-B2-I/SX - In production CEC1702Q-S1-I/SX - In production; this part is used with the custom Soteria firmware which is available under a Signed Licence Agreement (SLA) CEC1702Q-B1-SX - Obsolete CEC1702Q-C1-SX - Obsolete CEC1702Q-C2-I/SX - Obsolete