MIPS-Based™ Security Technology
Providing effective business solutions ultimately drives the quest for incorporating secure SoC solutions and features. In each of the markets where MIPS-Based™ devices plays a part, requirements differ in many respects from each other and yet at the same time, manifest common security technology needs that span across the differing market applications and vertical segments. These segments include consumer devices in the home where MIPS plays a vital role such as networked storage, residential gateways/routers, set-top boxes (STB), digital television (DTV), IPTV, portable media devices, digital video players/recorders, printers and more.The security-focused alliance partners that collaborate with MIPS Technologies in the Safe-SOC™ Platform are positioned in conjunction with MIPS to provide state-of-the-art security solutions that at the end of the day showcase their particular strength, expertise and respective area of business focus creatively applied to MIPS customer requirements. Solutions that Safe-SOC Platform provides are either directly provided through MIPS or through partner-specific IP or a combination of both. Collaboration with customers and potential customers is key in coming up with successful solutions in a space where new security specifications are introduced at an increasingly quicker pace.
Common challenges faced by security-oriented SoC designers include creating effective solutions for security functions and issues such as:
- Multiple Digital Rights Management (DRM) spec support
- Non-volatile key storage, protection and management
- Software and hardware crypto block performance
- Secure boot and services
- Secure debug
- Cost reduction and secure subsystem partitioning
