Atmel Receives an EAL4+ Certificate for the First Secure Microcontroller of its New SecureAVR Family; Another Award for Atmel's Security Expertise.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ROUSSET, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 6, 2002 Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq:ATML ATML Automatic Test Markup Language ATML Automated Test Markup Language ), announced today it has received a Common Criteria security certificate EAL4 Augmented AVA-VLA .4 for its AT90SC19264RC secureAVR(TM) RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. microcontroller. This vulnerability assessment (AVA-VLA.4) corresponds to today's highest proven resistance against any security attack. The AT90SC19264RC is based on the new SecureAVR RISC architecture. It features an outstanding 16-bit CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. performance, 192 Kbytes of ROM, 64 Kbytes of EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable ROM) A rewritable memory chip that holds its content without power. Although EEPROMs spawned flash memory, EEPROMs are byte addressable at the write level, whereas flash chips must erase a block of bytes before rewriting. , 6 Kbytes of RAM and a host of security mechanisms including firewalls and two cryptographic co-processors: one for the asymmetric algorithms (RSA (1) (Rural Service Area) See MSA. (2) (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) A highly secure cryptography method by RSA Security, Inc., Bedford, MA (www.rsa.com), a division of EMC Corporation since 2006. It uses a two-part key. , DSA, Elliptic Curves) and one for the DES/TripleDES. More than a single product, the whole architecture has been certified against the most demanding security rules. The AT90SC19264RC is the first of the new AVR high security family that will very soon offer a set of products ranging from 2 Kbytes up to 128 Kbytes of EEPROM. Those products will benefit from this security expertise to address the most secure applications including e-government, electronic finance, e-commerce and m-commerce transactions. Lucien Brau, Atmel's Smart Card ICs Division Director said, "We are extremely proud to offer very high performance products providing the best in terms of security. This Common Criteria EAL 4 Augmented certificate is not the first one we have been awarded, however we had to increase our expertise in security to meet the new market standards. Atmel's investment towards an answer to the growing demands for security from its clients denotes a long-term commitment to the smart card market." Glossary RSA -- Rivest Shamir Adelman DES -- Data Encryption Standard See DES. Data Encryption Standard - (DES) The NBS's popular, standard encryption algorithm. It is a product cipher that operates on 64-bit blocks of data, using a 56-bit key. It is defined in FIPS 46-1 (1988) (which supersedes FIPS 46 (1977)). TDES (Triple DES) See DES. -- Triple Data Encryption Standard About Atmel Founded in 1984, Atmel Corporation is headquartered in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. 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 and combinations thereof are registered trademarks and others contained herein are trademarks of Atmel Corporation. Terms and product names in this document may be the trademarks of others. Information: Atmel's AT90SC19264RC product information may be retrieved at www.atmel.com/atmel/acrobat/1563s.pdf. For more information on Atmel's Secure Microcontrollers, go to: http://www.atmel.com/atmel/products/prod21.htm. |
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