Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) today introduced a new family of Trusted Platform Modules (TPM) that broaden the application base for Trusted Computing and mark the first availability of discrete security chips supporting the next generation TPM 2.0 specification. TPMs are specific microcontrollers that defend computing systems against unauthorized access and attacks. With extended temperature range versions, support for either serial or parallel device interfaces and ability to run either TPM 1.2 or 2.0, Infineon’s OPTIGAT TPMs support current and anticipated future requirements for hardware-based trusted system applications across industrial, embedded, mobile or tablet and traditional computing environments.
The TPM was defined by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) – a standardization body including leading IT companies – which provides open standards intended to enable safe computing environments. Organizations use systems with built-in, trusted hardware and applications to better protect business-critical data (for example, using hard disk encryption), to manage secure authentication and stronger protection of user identities and to improve secure communication in connected computer networks.
Infineon’s TPM security chips successfully passed the most stringent security tests to prove the chip’s resistance against attacks. They have received TCG certification based on the international security standard “Common Criteria” and on TCG’s own compliance tests.
With launch of the new OPTIGAT TPM family, Infineon supports both the evolution to higher security implementation with TPM 2.0 and the growing demand for Trusted Computing functionality in computing systems,” said Juergen Spaenkuch, Vice President and General Manager Platform Security at Infineon’s Chip Card & Security Division. “Since the first TPM devices were shipped ten years ago, Trusted Computing has grown to encompass multiple types of computing platforms and operating systems, based on the common requirement for a hardware root of trust that verifies the authenticity and secure state of devices,” he added.
Each of the new TPM devices is based on a state-of-the-art Infineon 16-bit security microcontroller and the company’s SOLID FLASHT technology. They meet Microsoft Windows® hardware certification requirements, are recommended by Google for Chrome OS systems and are supported in major open source operating systems.
Product Data, Availability
The SLB96xx family is available with two package options, either TSSOP-28 or even smaller VQFN-32, which at 5 x 5mm conserves valuable board space on mobile platforms. Two temperature ranges (-20 to 80 degrees Celsius or -40 to 85 degrees Celsius) provide flexibility for different application environments.
The SLB9645 is now in volume production. It has the I2C interface commonly used in industrial, embedded and numerous mobile computing systems. Other new family members, the SLB9660 and SLB9665, use the LPC interface used in x86-based computing platforms. Samples of both the SLB9660 and SLB9665 are now available, with production ramp planned by early next year.
Security for the connected world
Based on its core competences in the fields of security, contactless communication and integrated microcontroller solutions (embedded control), Infineon offers an extensive portfolio of semiconductor-based security products for many chip card and security applications. With this expertise, Infineon is helping to increase security in an increasingly connected world, for example for mobile-e payment, for system security and secure electronic ID documents. For over 25 years, Infineon has developed innovative solutions in the area of hardware-based security and has been a global market leader for 15 consecutive years. For more information about chip cards and security solutions at Infineon, please go to: www.infineon.com/chip-card-and-security.
