Barco Silex FPGA design speeds transactions in award-winning Atos Worldline Hardware Security Module (HSM)

Louvain-la-Neuve --  April 8, 2013– Barco Silex, a leading provider of crypto IP solutions and ASIC / FPGA design services, today announced that hi-tech transactional services expert, Atos Worldline, uses a Barco Silex FPGA crypto platform in its ADYTON. The ADYTON, which recently received an iF product design award in addition to its red dot product design award , integrates Barco Silex’s IP to achieve RSA and ECC performance levels of over 7000 op/s in RSA CRT and FIPS 140-2 Security level 4 certification.

“We chose Barco Silex IP because it offered the highest RSA and ECC performance available, allowing us to balance high speed transaction capability with the cost benefits of an FPGA solution. We have collaborated with Barco Silex on many projects. The combination of their scalable crypto IP and excellent design services have helped make the ADYTON a market success” said Filip Demaertelaere, Product Manager, Atos Worldline.

“Achieving over 7000 op/s on an FPGA running at 250 MHz is quite an achievement and shows how powerful our crypto IP platform is,” commented Sébastien Rabou, Product Manager, Barco-Silex. “Today there is an increasing need for security in data communications systems, to handle financial transactions including mobile and online payments as well as to protect data and content. These systems must offer very high levels of protection and manage large numbers of transactions at high speed. The ADYTONshows that hardware security modules using our IP and FPGA can achieve the required performance cost-effectively.”

Barco Silex offers a broad portfolio of flexible and scalable security IP cores for symmetric and asymmetric cryptography. For Atos Worldline, Barco Silex drew on its BA414E (Public Key crypto Engine), BA413 (Hashing engine) and BA431 (True Random Number Generator).  Combined with the company’s expertise in FPGA, ASIC and SoC design, this delivered an autonomous platform supporting key generation, signature verification, prime number and FIPS compliant random number generation.

The high level of flexibility and scalability of Barco Silex crypto IP enables customers to optimally balance gate count and performance by selecting appropriate core options. And the highly pipelined and optimized architectures generate the fastest and smallest solutions on the market.

About Barco Silex

Barco Silex is a leader in contract engineering services, custom hardware and software development, as well as Intellectual Property (IP). Thanks to its continued stream of aggressive innovations, Barco Silex stays ahead of the competition. Barco Silex’s history as a custom electronic design house (ASIC, FPGA, DSP, Board) specialized in video coding, cryptography, security and memory controllers goes back to 1991, offering the best guarantee for continuous support throughout the complete lifecycle of products.

For more details, please go to www.barco-silex.com.

About Atos Worldline

Atos Worldline brings together Atos core expertise in Hi-Tech Transactional Services with 40 years of experience and recognized know-how in the payment industry. A leader in end-to-end services for critical electronic transactions, Atos Worldline is specialized in electronic payment services (including issuing, acquiring, terminals, and card and non-card payment solutions & processing), eServices for customers, citizens and communities (eCS) as well as services for financial markets.

Atos Worldline is committed to continuous R&D and innovation so its customers can benefit from leading-edge solutions to stay ahead of market evolutions. Atos Worldline generates annual revenues of €913 million and employs over 5,400 people in the world. For more information, please visit: atosworldline.com

About Barco

Barco, a global technology company, designs and develops visualization products for a variety of selected professional markets. Barco has its own facilities for Sales & Marketing, Customer Support, R&D and Manufacturing in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. Barco (NYSE Euronext Brussels: BAR) is active in more than 90 countries with about 3,900 employees worldwide. Barco posted sales of EUR 1.156 billion in 2012.