Microchip Technology has introduced the CEC1736 TrustFLEX devices, aiming to enhance accessibility to embedded security solutions as technology and cybersecurity standards evolve. The CEC1736 Trust Shield family serves as a microcontroller-based platform root of trust solution, fostering cyber resiliency across data centers, telecom, networking, embedded computing, and industrial applications. As part of the TrustFLEX platform, these devices come partially configured and provisioned with Microchip-signed Soteria-G3 firmware, reducing development time needed for integrating platform root of trust. Moreover, they facilitate fast-track provisioning of necessary cryptographic assets and signed firmware images, simplifying secure manufacturing processes as mandated by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Open Compute Project (OCP) standards.
The CEC1736 TrustFLEX devices are designed to comply with stringent security standards like NIST 800-193 and OCP, ensuring resilience across various markets. They support critical security features necessary for establishing hardware root of trust. With the Trust Platform Design Suite tool, users can customize configuration settings to suit specific applications, processors, or System on Chip (SoC) setups, extending security measures throughout the system. These devices incorporate modern firmware security features like SPI bus monitoring, secure boot, component attestation, and lifecycle management, protecting both pre-boot and real-time environments from potential threats, whether in-person or remote. Additionally, the devices feature highly configurable, mixed-signal, advanced I/O CEC1736 controllers, integrating a 32-bit 96 MHz Arm Cortex-M4 processor core with closely coupled memory, ensuring efficient code execution and data access.
