Crack Semiconductor Introduces The CS1024PKA-Light Programmable Public Key Processor

April 26, 2010 - PRLog -- Crack Semiconductor today has announced the CS1024PKA-Light,  a programmable Public Key Accelerator intended for applications where silicon gate area is the dominant concern, over high performance. Both CS1024PKA and CS1024PKA-Light processors use the same micro-code algorithm processor, so no change in program code is required. Whereas the CS1024PKA is optimized for performance, the "light" version will use signficiantly less silicon gate area, but will necessarily compute RSA and ECC algorithms using more clock cycles than the CS1024PKA.

"The CS1024PKA-Light is now competing directly with most PKA processors in terms of their compute performance compared to the very high-performing CS1024PKA, but our lightweight processor still has an advantage for ECC applications because of the small microcode and data storage requirements of this highly optimized modular algorithm processor architecture", says Crack's CTO Arthur J. Low.

Crack Semiconductor now has a complete line of RSA and ECC processors that are highly competitive in terms of power, area and performance. For more information, please visit http://www.cracksemi.com or email art@cracksemi.com

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Crack Semiconductor develops Silicon Intellectual Property for Public Key security. Our line of PKA accelerators is cost, area and performance competitive for RSA and Elliptic Curve applications. The company also develops complete security solutions as Silicon IP and security applications software running on embedded SoC processors.