Terafire^® E5200

Elliptic Curve Cryptography Microprocessor

From the leader in public key cryptography cores comes the E5200 series. The E5200 provides leading elliptic curve cryptography performance while maintaining full backwards compatibility with the flagship T5200 public key cryptography microprocessor. Athena’s patented arithmetic technology delivers the performance your solution needs - low latency and high throughput, in an area efficient package.

The E5200 augments Athena’s proprietary public key instruction set architecture with enhanced performance elliptic curve instructions that accelerate all odd characteristic operations, and provide additional performance for Suite B P-curve operations.

Features

• Thousands of operations per second
• Supports up to 16K-bit public key operations
• Enhanced performance for elliptic curve cryptography operations
• Accelerates Suite B P-curve operations
• T5200 Application Library supports multiple public key cryptography algorithms
• Implements Athena's powerful T5200 instruction set architecture
• Scalable for your application's area and performance needs.
• Portable to multiple implementation technologies, including FPGA, structured ASIC, and ASIC
• Easy SoC integration

Benefits

• Family of compatible products optimized for speed and area supports your product succession strategy
• Programmability enables adaptability to future standards
• Autonomous operation minimizes load on host processor

Applications

• Embedded secure processing
• Secure communications
• Secure processing
• IPsec acceleration
• E-commerce
• SSL VPN
• Security appliances
• Mobile platforms