The market for secure applications based on smartcard technology has emphasized banking, ID,SIM, transportation, and pay TV applications since 1995. Now, growing demand for strong security in consumer goods is enlarging the market by providing secure solutions such as public key infrastructure (PKI) for enterprises and the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) standard for computers, as well as brand protection, anti-piracy, and anti-fraud mechanisms.
Today the ubiquitous use of mobile phones and wireless technology is driving the introduction of embedded secure elements, eSIM devices, M2M devices and NFC enable devices as well as contactless cards.Tomorrow the connected world of the Internet of Things will influence the evolution of this technology through securely-connected devices in smart grid, smart home, smart city, and smart world applications.
Technology advancement is coming with Secure Flashfeaturing larger memories, faster and much more flexible programming than traditional ROM based solution, and higher performance using 32-bit ARM® cores compared to earlier 8/16 bit proprietary cores, ST’s latest Secure MCUs are built on 40nm Flash process technology, to deliver advanced features at optimized cost to its customers.
The new generation of our versatile secure solution offers a wide range of cryptographic and secure services for applications to comply with pre-defined schemes. Moreover, with a Common Criteria certificate it can serve the smart-grid market and provide strong security for concentrators, gateways, and IoT devices.
STMicroelectronics offers a complete secure microcontroller product line that enables today’s security requirement in mobile, banking & ID and tomorrow’s requirement of IoT-connected devices.
