FIQ-PKA02B ECC Secure Accelerator

High-performance ECC IP with advanced physical security

In performance-sensitive systems where speed and responsiveness are critical, but area and power constraints are less extreme, FortifyIQ’s FIQ-PKA02B delivers high-throughput elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) with robust protection against physical attacks. Designed for fast and secure SoC integration, the FIQ-PKA02B supports ECDH, ECDSA, and EdDSA operations with low latency and optimized performance per watt. It incorporates FortifyIQ’s advanced multi-layered countermeasures against side-channel analysis (SCA) and fault injection attacks (FIA), ensuring strong security even under active physical threat models. The IP is engineered to meet or exceed rigorous security certification standards across all levels of FIPS 140-3 and Common Criteria.

Features

  • Efficient Performance
  • SCA/FIA Resistance
  • Patented High-Performance Modulo Multiplication
  • Flexible Interfaces
  • RAM/ROM Firmware Support
  • Security Certification Readiness

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External Dependencies

  • Requires an external cryptographically secure random number generator (CSPRNG)
  • Requires an external hash function to enable ECDSA operations

Applications

  • IoT Devices
  • Automotive Systems
  • Embedded and Industrial Control
  • Authentication Tokens
  • Payment Systems
  • Secure Communications
  • Network Devices

Deliverables

  • SystemVerilog source code or netlist
  • Testbench, input vectors, and expected results
  • Sample timing constraints, synthesis, and simulation scripts
  • Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) reference implementation
  • Integration, configuration, and usage manuals
  • Firmware code
  • Software library 
  • Security documentation

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Fortify’s AES security evaluation by SGS

“Summary. The leakage analysis (Welch t-test) on over 30 million traces did not show statistically significant first- and second-order differences between trace sets with fixed and random inputs. The template-based DPA analysis, on the pseudo-random trace set for the profiling phase (15 million traces) and on a sub-set of 300k fix input traces for matching phase targeting the first-round S-box output, and template attack on ciphertext, did not indicate any potential information leakage.”

” The results for the soft IP presented in the report were obtained on the TOE which is the basic hardware implementation of the soft IP without additional levels of security (e.g. that are present in a secure silicon layout). Therefore the internal strength of the soft IP itself was evaluated. This indicates that the investigated features and parameters of the soft IP implementation should be robust against SCA and fault injection attacks in different implementations including ASIC. Nevertheless, according to the Common Criteria rules, the strength of the final composite product must be evaluated on its own.”

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