Tuesday, 22 December 2015

X-ES’s XPedite7572 and XPedite7672 - Hosts Custom Functions to Protect Data from Being Modified or Observed.

Extreme Engineering Solutions, Inc. (X-ES) announces a selection of rugged, Inteprocessor-based VPX SBC's featuring onboard FPGA modules from the Microsemi SmartFusion®2 families.
The 3U OpenVPX XPedite7572 with a 5th Gen Intel® Core™ i7 processor and XPedite7672 with the Intel® Xeon® D processor are low-power, high-performance SBCs that offer a sophisticated set of features for securing critical applications or securing an entire system and the information within it, while also providing best-in-class processing performance with Inte processors.

Both small form factor 3U VPX cards incorporate the Microsemi SmartFusion®2 SoC as its root of trust. As implemented on these SBC's, the power-on control and boot path is entirely controlled and monitored by the SmartFusion®2 to provide authentication and detection against many types of attacks. The SmartFusion®2's integrated Physically Unclonable Function (PUF), protection against Differential Power Analysis (DPA) attacks, flash-based FPGA fabric, and advanced cryptographic processing elements make this an ideal platform for implementing security throughout the supply chain in military, aviation, communication, and industrial environments.

The XPedite7572 and XPedite7672 have 1 GB of ECC DDR3 and up to 64 MB of SPI NOR did flash attach to the SmartFusion® 2, which also has a high-speed x4 PCI Express Gen2 interface to the Intel® CPU. This architecture, combined with the SmartFusion®2's integrated ARM® Cortex-M3 processor, allows great flexibility for implementing custom IP as an encryption/decryption co-processor, data path monitor, or tools to extend run-time trust into the OS, application, or system. The SmartFusion®2 SoC also performs basic system health monitoring, but can be combined with advanced IP to implement system penalties appropriate to the program needs.


These features, in addition to advanced PCB fabrication techniques and heatframe design, encompasses X-ES SecureCOTS™ technology. Flexible backplane I/O, such as hi-bandwidth PCI-Express Gen3, 10GBASE-KR, 1000BASE-BX, SmartFusion®2 GPIO, SATA, and USB, allow these cards to fit perfectly wherever high security and reliability is needed.

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