Low-Cost, No-Touch IoT Security
Nick Tredennick, Paul Ying-Fung Wu, Harry L. Peterson, John Peterson · 2021
IoT security needs chip-level hardware support for unique identity, for secrets management, and for cryptographic services. We have built a Silicon Anchor Security Module that implements these services in hardware. This security engine has been implemented in both Intel and Xilinx FPGAs and the core identity element, the dynamic entropy generator, has been implemented and tested in a TSMC 90nm process by a joint-venture partner. We have demonstration hardware for a low-cost, no-touch IoT application and are in the process of field-testing FPGA-based systems in an electrical grid application with another joint-venture partner. Both of these joint-venture partners are working with us to implement the security engine in an integrated circuit.