Infineon Technologies has launched the new TEGRION safety controller family, the company's broadest 28nm safety controller portfolio. It integrates the new Integrity Guard 32 security architecture and an advanced Arm v8-M instruction set to improve device performance.
TEGRION safety controllers offer ease of implementation, rapid design and time to market while supporting long product life cycles. The broad portfolio of TEGRION security controllers is designed to support a wide range of applications, from smart home, smart mobility and smart industry to payment, identity and lifestyle.
“By investing in and launching the TEGRION family of security controllers, Infineon is demonstrating its long-term commitment to the security market. It is the most powerful family of security controllers the company has ever released,” said Ioannis Kabitoglou, senior vice president and general manager of digital security and identity at Infineon. “Based on positive customer feedback, we are confident that the TEGRION family of safety controllers will meet current and future safety application requirements. And in fact, our customers will be able to develop their operating systems much faster.”
TEGRION features Infineon's exclusive Integrity Guard 32 hardware security architecture, which greatly simplifies application development. It enables security-focused design conditions that are critical to the sustainable success of today's and tomorrow's connected applications. Integrity Guard 32 enables higher levels of security without compromising performance and reliability. It is based on a holistic approach that integrates the system's processing core, on-chip memories, buses, caches, cryptographic accelerators, and peripheral interfaces into a comprehensive security architecture.
Highly effective error detection/correction codes and a self-checking dual CPU core protect the system. Power-efficient cryptographic accelerators enable fast data encryption, digital signatures, and other cryptographic operations while protecting the system against side channel, fault induction, and physical attacks.
Integrity Guard 32 pushes the boundaries of hardware security while reducing total cost of ownership throughout the product lifecycle, enabling easier application development with significantly less effort for software protection measures.
The first member of the new family, the SLC26P, was launched in November 2022 and includes EMVCo certification for payments markets. Over the past six months, this product has experienced a very rapid increase in volume production, driven by customer demand.
The first implementation based on a TEGRION security controller, a SECORA Pay payment solution, demonstrated contactless performance and industry-leading personalization. Based on the new Mastercard 2023 performance guideline with 144-byte keys, a payment card with the SECORA Pay security solution enables contactless transactions in 155 ms – almost halving the expected transaction time (less than 300 ms).
