Device integrates accelerated security

Integrated Device Technology's RC32365 is the first device in the Interprise Access Processor family to include a security engine comprising on-chip, hardware-accelerated IPSec (Internet Protocol Security) and hardware random-number-generator modules to support DES, 3DES, AES (advanced encryption standard), SHA1, and MD5 hashing for small-office/home-office-gateway and wireless-access applications. In addition to the security engine, the 150-MHz, 32-bit MIPS CPU core integrates an 8-kbyte instruction cache, a 2-kbyte data cache, an SDRAM controller, two 10/100 Ethernet media-access controllers, a 32-bit PCI v2.2 interface, and a 16-bit PCMCIA v2.1 interface.

The VxWorks and Linux operating systems support the RC32365. The 79EB365 evaluation board supports software development and performance evaluation. Designers can port their proprietary security stacks to work with the RC32365 hardware drivers using a cryptographic API. The RC32365 integrates the FreeS/WAN shareware-security package that operates with the embedded Linux operating system. Available separately, Intoto provides a certified virtual-private-network/firewall package for the RC32365 platform. The RC32365 is currently available for sampling in a 256-ball BGA package; production quantities will become available this summer for $17 (10,000).

Integrated Device Technology, 1-408-727-6116, www.idt.com.