Gartner analysts recently reported that worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled $340.3 billion in 2014 – representing a 7.9 percent increase from 2013 revenue of $315.4 billion. According to Gartner research VP Andrew Norwood, the top 25 semiconductor vendors’ combined revenue increased 11.7 percent, which was more than the overall industry’s growth. More specifically, the top 25 vendors accounted for 72.4 percent of total market revenue, up from 69.9 percent in 2013.
Securing an evolving cryptographic landscape
Paul Kocher, the President and Chief Scientist of Rambus’ Cryptography Research Division, recently participated in a two-part panel session on the role of cryptography in a post-Snowden world. The panel – which also featured Bart Preneel, Adi Shamir and Nigel Smart – discussed various security standards and implementations in the context of a changing cryptographic landscape.
CSI-2 – HDMI Demo (Northwest Logic, Mixel)
Rambus’, formerly Northwest Logic, and Mixel have created a new CSI-HDMI demo that features the Omnivision 13850 camera outputing 4K video over 4 MIPI data lanes, each running at 1.2 Gbit/s. The video runs through cables to Mixel’s D-PHY Test Chip. The D-PHY Test Chip receives the MIPI video stream and sends it to a Xilinx Virtex-7 located on the Xilinx VC707 board. Northwest Logic’s CSI-2 Rx Controller Core in the Virtex-7 processes the MIPI Camera Serial Interface protocol and extracts the video pixels. These pixels are then Beyer processed, color and gamma corrected and sent via HDMI to the 1080P display.
To learn more about the Rambus CSI-2 Controller Core, click here.
Cryptographers take on security challenges @ RSA2015
The RSA 2015 Cryptographers’ Panel in San Francisco featured a number of prominent security personalities such as Adi Shamir, Ed Giorgio, Ronald Rivest and Whitfield Diffie. Moderated by Paul Kocher, the President and Chief Scientist of Rambus’ Cryptography Research Division, the panel touched on a wide range of topics, including E.M.V. smart credit cards, the Internet of Things (IoT) and ransomware.
Rambus Cryptography Research division showcases security cores @ RSA 2015
RSA 2015 kicked off this morning at Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. We’re showcasing a wide range of advanced security core solutions at booth S1815, including DPA countermeasures, as well as CryptoFirewall anti-counterfeiting and content protection platforms.
Athena Security IPs Designed to Mend Holes in SoCs
The need to protect connected systems — cars, mobile phones, smart grids, connected factories and any other IoT devices — by using security chips with crypto keys is growing rapidly, while not clearly answering a critical question: How do we know if the security chips designed into such connected systems aren’t leaking key information?
