Atmel Adds More Functionality to its 32K Smart Card AVR RISC Flash Microcontroller
ROUSSET, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 5, 2002--Atmel®
Corporation (Nasdaq:ATML) announced today the availability of its new
32K Smart Card Flash Microcontroller, the AT90SC3232CS, incorporating
Atmel's latest high security architecture. This architecture,
announced earlier this year, uses the secureAVR(TM) RISC
microcontroller providing an outstanding 16-bit CPU performance whilst
offering state of the art security features. These features include
RSA, DFA/DPA/SPA resistant, DES/TDES co-processor, true RNG (Random
Number Generator), firewalls, and environmental protections. The first
family member AT90SC19264RC, a 192K ROM, 64K EEPROM secureAVR
microcontroller is already certified against the more demanding
security rules designed for banking and government applications
AT90SC19264RC, a 192K ROM, 64K EEPROM secureAVR Microcontroller.
The AT90SC3232CS, a smaller, more cost-effective product than the
previous AT90SC3232C with significantly improved security and
performance, has the addition of an SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface)
port to provide additional features for secure embedded and other
smart applications. Examples include embedded security for Set-Top
boxes for manufacturers who may prefer their Pay TV Conditional Access
to be embedded within the hardware or as a Secure Access Module (SAM)
for payment and other smart card terminals. The enhanced features of
the AT90SC3232CS, combined with Atmel's AT45DB321B 32M-bit
DataFlash®, made it suitable for the innovative 4M byte Smart Card
ISAM (ITSO Secure Access Module). Designed for the Interoperable
Transport Smartcard Organisation (ITSO), it is an example of how
connecting a Flash memory to this device provides a means to securely
store a large amount of data.
To complement these features, the AT90SC3232CS also incorporates
32K bytes of Flash program memory, for faster time to market and
customer flexibility, together with 32K bytes of EEPROM and 3K bytes
of RAM, which is enough to support the powerful 16-bit RISC
co-processor for RSA key lengths up to 2048. Hardware triple DES (Data
Encryption Standard) and Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) support,
complete the cryptographic features of this flexible device.
Ian Duthie, Smart Card IC Marketing Manager said, "We have been
really encouraged by both the diversity and the number of design wins
we have already achieved with this new product release, with
applications in Government ID, PKI, Banking, Pay-TV, GSM mobile and
Transport sectors of the smart card market. The product is proving to
be a good all-rounder due to its wide-ranging features."
About Atmel
Founded in 1984, Atmel Corporation is headquartered in San Jose,
California with manufacturing facilities in North America and Europe.
Atmel designs, manufactures and markets worldwide, advanced logic,
mixed-signal, non-volatile memory and RF semiconductors. Atmel is also
a leading provider of system-level integration semiconductor solutions
using CMOS, BiCMOS, SiGe and high-voltage BCDMOS process technologies.
Atmel, AVR, the Atmel logo, DataFlahs and combinations thereof are
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Atmel Corporation. Terms and product names in this document may be the
trademarks of others.
Information:
Atmel's AT90SC3232CS product information may be retrieved at
http://www.atmel.com/atmel/products/prod171.htm For more information
on Atmel's Secure Microcontrollers, go to:
http://www.atmel.com/atmel/products/prod21.htm
Contact:
Atmel
Smart Card ICs Marketing Manager
Ian Duthie, +44 1355 803 308
iduthie@atmel.com
Smart Card ICs MarCom Manager
Tamara Van der Pyl, +33 4 42 53 60 52
tvanderpyl@atmel.fr
Corporate Communications Manager -- Europe
Veronique Sablereau, +33 1 30 60 70 68
veronique.sablereau@atmel.com
Director of Public Relations - USA and Asia
Clive Over, 408/451-2855
cliveover@atmel.com
Source:
Atmel
