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Ultra-Low-Power AES Core with Proven SCA Protection for Constrained Devices
FortifyIQ’s Ultra-Low-Power AES IP core is a compact encryption engine optimized for deeply embedded and battery-powered systems where minimizing energy and silicon footprint is critical. Supporting AES-128 encryption in ECB mode, the core features a power-efficient, serialized architecture and integrates STORM, a lookup table-based side-channel protection scheme, derived from RAMBAM. STORM includes formally proven resistance against side-channel attacks (SCA) and incorporates fault injection (FI) countermeasures at the RTL level. Entirely algorithmic and implementation-agnostic, this silicon-proven core is ideal for secure IoT endpoints, wearables, and smart sensors aiming to meet FIPS 140-3 and Common Criteria requirements under tight power and area constraints.
FortifyIQ’s Ultra-Low-Power AES Core is a silicon-proven AES-128 encryption IP designed for energy-constrained embedded applications such as IoT sensors, wearables, and secure authentication devices. Supporting ECB mode only, the core features a fully serialized architecture with a single S-box, minimizing both area and dynamic power consumption. It is ideally suited for devices that must operate on limited battery capacity or energy harvesting.
To ensure robust physical security, the core integrates STORM, a lookup table-based protection scheme derived from FortifyIQ’s RAMBAM architecture. STORM provides formally proven resistance against side-channel attacks (SCA). This protection is implemented entirely at the RTL level, is algorithmic and implementation-agnostic, and requires no custom layout constraints, making it portable across ASIC and FPGA targets. Standard integration interfaces such as APB or memory-mapped AHB are supported, and the core includes a simple control structure that enables easy integration into low-power SoCs with minimal software overhead.
Built to support FIPS 140-3 and Common Criteria certification efforts, FortifyIQ’s Ultra-Low-Power AES Core combines robust cryptographic strength, advanced SCA protection, and extreme energy efficiency, making it the ideal choice for secure applications with tight power and area budgets.
