AT98SC032CT-USB Secure Microcontroller for Secure USB Embedded-System Application, from Atmel

Atmel introduced  new AT98SC032CT-USB, a fully-integrated solution designed to secure microcontroller. The AT98SC032CT-USB based on Atmel’s smart card chip, is intended for hardware security-solution integrators like USB tokens, secure Flash drives, media centers and other related products.

AT98SC032CT-USB secure microcontroller has  full-speed USB 2.0 interface, compliant  with CCID  This chip features an increased storage memory of 32KB with a password-protected file system and meets FIPS 140-2 requirements.

The AT98SC032CT-USB secure microcontroller  embeds complex firmware that provides advanced functionalities including strong authentication, one-time password generation, digital signature (3DES MAC, RSA PKCS#1, EC-DSA), data encryption (3DES, RSA PKCS#1), message digest (SHA1 & 256), random number generation and public key generation (RSA, ECC).

Jean-Charles Lesage, Atmel’s smart card IC marketing manager:

High-tech goods counterfeiting, multimedia content copying and identity theft have an increasing cost to industry and consumers. AT98SC security modules are perfectly suited to protect your applications against these threats by offering low-cost, ease of integration, higher security and proven technology…

Pricing and Availability
AT98SC032CT-USB secure microcontroller samples are available now in 44-QFN, 44-LQFP and SoIC-8 packages with pricing starting at USD $3.00 for 10k units.

About Atmel
Atmel is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of microcontrollers, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and radio frequency (RF) components. Leveraging one of the industry’s broadest intellectual property (IP) technology portfolios, Atmel is able to provide the electronics industry with complete system solutions. Focused on consumer, industrial, security, communications, computing and automotive markets, Atmel ICs can be found Everywhere You Are(R).