PCIe IP With Enhanced Security For The Automotive Market

By Dana Neustadter, Synopsys
SemiEngineering (November 7th, 2024)

Ensuring that data on the wire is secure from observation, tampering, or replay of packets.

The automotive industry is undergoing a rapid transformation, with connectivity and automation becoming integral components of modern vehicles. However, this increased connectivity also brings heightened risks. The automotive industry takes many measures to ensure safety for vehicles, but it is crucial to understand that these safety measures are ineffective if the vehicle’s security is compromised. A hacked car can render virtually any safety mechanism useless, posing significant risks to passengers and other road users. Therefore, ensuring both safety and security is paramount in modern automotive design.

As vehicles become more automated with many features and applications delivered through powerful compute platforms, there is a need for more security and higher data bandwidth with low latency, requirements that exceed by far the capability of legacy in-vehicle communication protocols. This has opened the door for Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) type technology.

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