Atmel Announces TwinAVR Microcontrollers (MCUs), the Industry’s First Dual-Core Secure Microcontrollers
Atmel’s TwinAVR™ microcontrollers (MCUs) (AT90SDC100 and AT90SDC104) are the industry’s first dual-core secure microcontrollers targeting demanding smart card applications such as the growing PayTV conditional access market. Atmel’s TwinAVR™ microcontrollers (MCUs) offer two independent cores with central processing unit (CPU), memory and peripherals on a single chip, unlike current secure MCUs on the market today that offer a single core. The Master Core is built around Atmel’s 8-/16–bit RISC secureAVR®, with 128K ROM, 36K EEPROM and 6K RAM. The Secure Core is built around Atmel’s 8-/16–bit RISC secureAVR®, with 64K ROM, 18K EEPROM, 6K RAM, AdvXTM Crypto Processor, TDES, AES & AIS31 TRNG. This innovative dual core architecture simplifies the implementation of the RED/BLACK concept of segregation between highly sensitive plaintext data (RED) and encrypted data (BLACK), leading to an easier and faster certification…
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