The Synopsys ARC® SEM Family of performance-efficient, ultra-low power, compact security processors enables designers to integrate security into their SoC to protect against logical, hardware and physical attacks.
The ARC SEM security processors are RISC cores based on the ARCv2 instruction set architecture (ISA), with the capability to closely couple memories and peripherals. ARC SEM processors include SecureShield® technology to enable creation of a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) to isolate multiple execution contexts and protect secure functions from software vulnerabilities in user code.
The ARC SEM processors include protection from side-channel attacks, which rely on information from the physical implementation rather than exploiting a direct weakness in the security measures themselves. They can be implemented as either a standalone secure core or a single core performing both secure and normal functions.
The ASIL D compliant ARC SEM130FS Safety and Security Processor adds hardware redundancy to its side-channel-attack protected processor to mitigate random hardware faults and avoid system failures for ADAS, telematics, radar, V2X communications, and industrial SoCs.
Performance-efficient, ultra-low power, compact ARC SEM security processors help protect against logical, hardware, physical and side-channel attacks
Overview
Key Features
- ARC processor cores are optimized to deliver the best performance/power/area (PPA) efficiency in the industry for embedded SoCs. Designed from the start for power-sensitive embedded applications, ARC processors implement a Harvard architecture for higher performance through simultaneous instruction and data memory access, and a high-speed scalar pipeline for maximum power efficiency. The 32-bit RISC engine offers a mixed 16-bit/32-bit instruction set for greater code density in embedded systems.
- ARC's high degree of configurability and instruction set architecture (ISA) extensibility contribute to its best-in-class PPA efficiency. Designers have the ability to add or omit hardware features to optimize the core's PPA for their target application - no wasted gates. ARC users also have the ability to add their own custom instructions and hardware accelerators to the core, as well as tightly couple memory and peripherals, enabling dramatic improvements in performance and power-efficiency at both the processor and system levels.
- Complete and proven commercial and open source tool chains, optimized for ARC processors, give SoC designers the development environment they need to efficiently develop ARC-based systems that meet all of their PPA targets.
Benefits
- ARC processors are highly configurable, allowing designers to optimize the performance, power and area of each processor instance on their SoC by implementing only the hardware needed.
- The ARChitect wizard enables drag-and-drop configuration of the core, including options for Instruction, program counter and loop counter widths
- Register file sizeTimers, reset and interrupts Byte ordering Memory type, size, partitioning, base address Power management, clock gating Ports and bus protocol Multipliers, dividers and other hardware features Licensable components such as a Memory Protection Unit (MPU), Floating Point Unit (FPU) and Real-Time Trace (RTT).
- Adding/removing instructions
Technical Specifications
Maturity
Available on request
Availability
Available
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