Welcome to our September newsletter. I’m John Weil and I recently joined the Foundries.io team; I'd like to take a brief moment of your day to introduce myself. I’m a 24 year veteran in semiconductors (MCUs and SoCs) with nearly 20 of those years working with embedded systems and software.
I’ve had the pleasure of working hand-in-hand with all of the major embedded system and software companies, so we may have already met.
In my new role at Foundries.io, I truly feel amazed at what we are able to do for you, our customers and partners. My door is always open and I’d love to hear more about your projects, challenges, and what I can do to make your life easier. I live by a concept I call the “Hero Effect,” which is simply the goal of making you “a hero in the hearts and minds of the people that matter most to you.” Whether that’s by accelerating your project’s time-to-market, reducing cost, or helping you solve the unsolvable problem, I can say with confidence that the Foundries.io team is here to help.
Enjoy the newsletter and please feel free to email me at John.Weil@Foundries.io if you have any feedback or questions.
Technical Blogs & Experts Updates
In his technical blogs focusing on NXP Edgelock® SE05x, Foundries.io's Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz explains how the NXP EdgeLock SE05x family of devices have been integrated as cryptographic providers on the Open Portable Trusted Execution Environment (OP-TEE), and how they are leveraged by its PKCS#11 TEE implementation. To begin, in this first blog, "NXP EdgeLock SE05x: Accessing a Secure Element from a Trusted Execution Environment", Jorge walks us through the I2C data flow between processor the secure element.
Support for EdgeLockTM SE050 with STM32MP15 At Foundries.io, we believe in securing systems by extending the perimeter of the hardware root of trust to as many operational phases as possible: secure authentication, storage protection, secure communication and key management, to name a few. In order to achieve this goal across all platforms where TrustZone is supported we rely on OP-TEE: a Trusted OS offering access to cryptographic algorithms often backed by hardware.
For some of our customers, however, the isolation provided by TrustZone, although necessary, is not sufficient and they require external secured anti-tamper storage for their keys and certificates. This is why, a couple of years ago, we integrated and upstreamed support for the EdgeLock SE050 Secure Element in OP-TEE and enabled it for a number of NXP platforms (iMX6, iMX7, iMX8). A few weeks ago, we integrated the SE050 secure element on a STM32MP1 design.
We're continuously broadening our knowledge and updating FoundriesFactory features, so that we can consistently provide you with the latest and most secure Edge Platform-as-a-Service and support.
OP-TEE support for Xilinx/AMD Versal ACAP With the release of Linux microPlatform (LmP) v88 we have enhanced the already extensive set of security features of the AMD/Xilinx Versal Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP). We have developed a complete release of OP-TEE, enhanced with support for a True Random Number Generator, control of all eFuses and the Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) IP, and a fully featured cryptographic driver supporting SHA3-384, RSA, ECC and AES-GCM. Users will also be able to program their FPGA IP from the Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) instead of having to rely on the non-secure world for it.
This opens up a new set of secure storage options and hardware backed up cryptographic operations delivered from the TrustZone via OP-TEE. It is also important to note that any cryptographic operations not supported directly by the hardware are routed to their software implementations in the Trusted Execution Environment, therefore never exposing keys outside their exception level.
At Foundries.io we firmly believe in security by Openness and so we are also investing in sharing all our software contributions to the community. And of course, comments, fixes and new extensions are always welcome.
Product Updates
Version 88sees the addition of a frequently requested feature: "Offline Updates", amongst the many new features.
Taking place in three locations over the coming months, these invitation-only events will focus on "Security throughout the product lifecycle". Longmont, CO, October 4-5 , Washington D.C., November 8-9 and Munich, Germany, December 6-7. If you’re planning to be at any of these three events, be sure to let us know, we’d love to discuss secure software on Xilinx with you. 🗓️ Get in touchto arrange a meeting.
Being held at its new location in Austin, the event will be co-located with the AI Summit and the Quantum Computing Summit. 🗓️ Drop us an email to meet with us at the event and we'll arrange a time to suit you.
This year's Electronica trade fair and conference for electronics will cover a vast range of topics and will include the Embedded Platforms Conference and the IIoT Security & Cybersecurity forum. We'll be there - if you will be too. 🗓️ Get in touch to arrange a meeting.
This fast paced two day event brings together world leading speakers for technical and non-technical sessions, relevant across a wide range of industries. 🗓️ To meet with us, email usyour preferred time and day and we'll see you there.
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