IP Cores, Inc. Licenses Encryption Technology to Space Systems/Loral

IP Cores, Inc.  Has Licensed Encryption Technology to Space Systems/LORAL for Satellite Applications.

Palo Alto, California, November 22, 2010 -- IP Cores, Inc. (http://www.ipcores.com) has licensed its encryption technology to Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) for satellite applications.  The IP Cores solution will be used in conjunction with SS/L’s advanced satellite control subsystem to provide extremely high security for satellite communications. 

"Our new encryption solution is standard-based, extremely compact, and resistant against the single-event upset (SEU)," said Dmitri Varsanofiev, CTO of IP Cores. "This solution is therefore well-suited to be used for satellite-based encryption".

Compact Self-Contained Core Simplifies Design-In

IP Cores, Inc. is the leading company in the area of ultra-compact implementation of the standard encryptions technology. Miniature sizes of the cores offered by IP Cores, Inc. permit an efficient implementation utilizing the existing low-power space-qualified hardware solutions.  

Resistance Against SEU Permits Mission-Critical Applications

Single event upset (SEU) is a result of the change of the circuit state caused by an ionizing particle or radiation striking an element of a micro-electronic device. Probability of such change, typically resulting in a “soft error”), is increasing with the altitude and is much more pronounced in space, where high energy ionizing particles (galactic cosmic rays), solar particles and high energy protons trapped in the Earth's magnetosphere exist as part of the natural background.

Using encryption in the mission-critical components of the satellites requires resistance against the SEU. Design techniques used by IP Cores, Inc. deliver certain level of resistance against SEU.    

For more information about IP Cores’ product line, please visit www.ipcores.com .

About IP Cores, Inc.

IP Cores is a rapidly growing company in the field of security, error correction, and DSP IP cores. Founded in 2004, the company provides IP cores for communications and  storage fields, including AES-based ECB/CBC/OCB/CFB, AES-GCM and AES-XTS cores, flow-through AES/CCM cores with header parsing for IEEE 802.11 (WiFi), 802.16e (WiMAX), 802.15.3 (MBOA), 802.15.4 (Zigbee), public-key accelerators for RSA and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generators (CS PRNG), secure SHA and MD5 hashes, lossless data compression cores, low-latency fixed and floating-point FFT and  IFFT cores, as well as cyclic, Reed-Solomon, BCH and Viterbi decoder cores.