Terafire^® AES

Advanced Encryption Standard Family

Athena delivers Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) as a semiconductor intellectual property (IP) core family. Athena has been a leader in cryptography for a decade with the TeraFire line of products that includes solutions for AES, SHA, 3DES, MD5, public key cryptography, including RSA, DSA, and ECC, and more. Whatever your application, Athena has the functionality and an area/performance option that is right for you — and with discounted pricing for multiple cores, TeraFire products are sure to save both development time and money.

Athena’s dedicated AES core solutions are constructed using a modular architecture that allows Athena to configure an AES solution optimized for your application. Athena’s AES cores are compliant with FIPS 197 and NIST SP800-38A defined operating modes: ECB, CBC, CFB, OFB, and CTR. Support for CCM and GCM is also available. Dedicated AES cores are offered at two performance tiers and can be provided with optional bus interfaces. Athena also offers AES as an option in its EXP-F5200 cryptography microprocessor.

Features

• FIPS 197 compliant AES cores
• Supports key sizes of 128, 192, and 256-bits
• Supports NIST SP800-38A, C, and D defined modes
• Two dedicated product series support different performance & area requirements
• Modular architecture
• AES support also available in TeraFire F5200 cryptography microprocessor
• Microprocessor bus interfaces available
• Easy SoC integration

Benefits

• Modular architecture enables scalable performance and optimal implementation
• Full-width data ports maximize performance, minimize latency
• Fast delivery for accelerated time to profit

Applications

• Encrypted data storage
• Secure communications
• Secure processing
• IPsec acceleration
• E-commerce
• VPN
• Financial transactions