Embedded security cores are becoming an increasingly popular option for set-top box chipsets. To be sure, set-top boxes that eschew smart cards in favor of hardware security cores offer operators robust protection with embedded, integrated hardware that is capable of performing a range of functions, including the secure storage and protection of cryptographic keys against unauthorized access.
Wearables eyed for mobile payments
According to Samsung, wearable vendors and banks have been piloting and launching a number of solutions that employ multiple types of near field communication (NFC)- enabled form factors, including fobs, rings and stickers in addition to smartwatches and wristbands. Although wearable payments are considered an early niche market, gradual growth is projected as the industry works through multiple issues, including upgrading point-of-scale (POS) terminal infrastructure, consumer comfort with wearables and refining the frictionless payment process.
Controllers Newsletter – Q3 2016
Northwest Logic’s Market Leading HBM Controller
Northwest Logic’s HBM Controller is the most widely used HBM controller IP in the market. Key features include
- – Fully HBM Gen2 compliant
- – Highly configurable enabling performance, size and power to be optimized
- – High efficiency, short transaction AXI support
- – Optional transaction reordering to optimize performance
- – Provides high performance across a wide range of traffic scenarios
- – RAS features including retry, memory scrubbing, parity protection, ECC
- – Integrated with multiple third-party PHYs on multiple test chips
- – Advanced memory test support (see below)
- – Delivered fully integrated and verified with the target PHY
- – Roadmap includes support for next generation HBM devices
Contact Northwest Logic for more information.
Northwest Logic and Mixel’s MIPI DEVCON Presentation Now Available
At the recent MIPI DEVCON, Northwest Logic and Mixel made a presentation describing how the trend towards higher resolution and frame rate cameras and displays is driving the need for higher data rate interfaces. It also covered how the MIPI Alliance Camera Serial Interface (CSI) and Display Serial Interface (DSI) standards are evolving to meet these needs and the corresponding impact on CSI and DSI designs. To see this presentation click here. Mixel and Northwest Logic support these evolving standards with complete C/D-PHY and controller solutions for DSI and CSI standards. Contact Northwest Logic for more information.
Northwest Logic’s Advanced Memory Test For HBM Solution Now Available
High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) provides memory throughput that greatly exceeds DDR4. Northwest Logic’s HBM Controller has been widely used by customers to create HBM-based SOCs. Northwest Logic’s Advanced Memory Test (AMT) solution enables memory faults in an HBM system to be detected and isolated using advanced algorithms such as MARCH and GALPAT. These algorithms are efficiently executed using a Microsequencer which is part of Northwest Logic’s Memory Test Core. This enables users to easily create custom HBM test sequences that can be efficiently executed in the bring-up lab, manufacturing or in field test scenarios. Contact Northwest Logic for more information.
ASIC Designers – Start Your PCIe 4.0 Designs Now!
Northwest Logic widely-used PCI Express solution includes PCI Express Gen 4 support with the following key features:
- 16 Gb/s, 8.0Gb/s, 5.0 Gb/s, 2.5 Gb/s line rate support
- x16, x8, x4, x2, x1 PCI Express Lane support
- Bifurcation support
- Root-Port, Endpoint, Dual Mode and Switch support
- High Reliability – AER, ECRC, ECC, and Parity support
- Market leading DMA/Bridging solution
- Customized solution offering with market leading PHY provider
Contact Northwest Logic for more information.
Northwest Logic’s PCI Express Solution is now available for Xilinx UltraScale+ devices
Northwest Logic, a Xilinx Premier IP partner, now supports the Xilinx UltraScale+ devices. This support includes Northwest Logic’s high-performance DMA Cores with Xilinx Hard IP for PCIe x16 Gen 3 applications. This solution has been fully validated in hardware on the Virtex UltraScale+ Board. Northwest Logic offers a complete, high-performance PCI Express solution, including PCI Express 4.0/3.0 with Endpoint/Root Port support. Contact Northwest Logic for more information.
Alazar Technologies and Northwest Logic Show IP Reuse Successes
Northwest Logic’s mission is to provide high-performance, high-quality, easy-to-use IP solutions. Having long-term customers like Alazar Technologies validates our commitment to this mission. “At AlazarTech, we have been working with Northwest Logic team for over a decade. We have always found Northwest Logic to be an open-minded, innovative and friendly group of engineers. We have benefited from using the high performance cores we license from Northwest Logic in many projects, but what we appreciate even more is the expert technical support we get even years afterwards,” said Muneeb Khalid, President & CEO, Alazar Technologies Inc. Alazar Technologies is the maker of high performance PCI and PCI Express Waveform Digitizers & PC Oscilloscopes designs and have used Northwest Logic’s PCI Express® and Memory Controller Core solutions in their many designs.
Hasselblad Leverages Northwest Logic’s MIPI CSI-2 Controller Core
The Hasselblad name has been linked with cameras since the early days of photography itself. Hasselblad has a tradition of designing cameras with photographers in mind. Hasselblad’s superior image quality, reliability and versatility go back more than half a century. Hasselblad has deployed their industry leading H6D System with Northwest Logic’s CSI-2 MIPI solutions. Northwest Logic has offered high quality easy-to-use MIPI based IP to the market since 2009 and continues to rapidly adopt the newest MIPI standards. Please contact Northwest Logic or visit Hasselblad for more information
Northwest Logic Adds Amos Technology As An Israel Sales Rep
Northwest Logic is pleased to announce that Amos Technology is now a sales rep for Northwest Logic in Israel. Amos Technology provides a strong, local presence for Northwest Logic in Israel. This relationship will ensure that our Israeli customers have a local contact to get the latest information and sales support to utilize Northwest Logic’s advanced IP portfolio. For immediate assistance, contact Moshe Stein of Amos Technology.
Millennials want seamless and secure mobile payments
A recent survey commissioned by VocaLink found that more than a third of Dutch millennials (36%) and a quarter of UK millennials (25%) are now making mobile payments in-store, online and in-app.
As Rian Boden of NFC World reports, the survey also found that 58% of UK respondents would prefer to use a mobile payment service provided by their bank.
Beyond OEM Pay: Mobile Payment Strategies for Banks
The evolving requirements of IoT security
Ed Sperling and Jeff Dorsch of Semiconductor Engineering recently penned an article about the future of IoT security. Specifically, the two journalists highlighted the distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) against Dyn which saw waves of attacks created by Mirai malware.
“Connected devices of all sizes can [now] be amassed into an army of bots that can bring even giants like Amazon and Netflix to a dead stop,” they explained. “This attack was predicted and warned against by numerous security experts since [Mirai] was published as open source code several months earlier, but that did little to stop its progression.”