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ECDSA IP Core — When Safety and Security Meet the Best Size/Performance Ratio

Elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC) is the backbone of modern public-key security, powering digital signatures, authentication mechanisms, and key-exchange protocols such as Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH). Built on these mathematically robust principles, the CryptOne ECDSA IP Core delivers high-performance elliptic-curve operations ideally suited for secure SoCs, embedded systems, and advanced electronic designs.

Compliant with FIPS 186, the IP core meets the strict security guidelines required by today’s safety-critical and high-integrity applications. It supports a broad portfolio of standard elliptic curves, giving engineers the freedom to choose the optimal curve for performance, interoperability, and security level—ensuring seamless integration across a wide range of cryptographic ecosystems.

Compact, Scalable, and Architected for Maximum Efficiency

The CryptOne ECDSA IP Core stands out for its highly optimized architecture, engineered by DCD-SEMI to achieve the best-in-class size-to-performance ratio. Its design enables:

• Ultra-small silicon footprint for resource-constrained FPGAs and ASICs

• High-speed elliptic-curve computations for rapid signature generation and verification

• Energy-efficient operation, ideal for battery-powered and IoT devices

• Scalable configurations for lightweight or high-throughput security architectures

This combination of compactness and processing power allows the ECDSA IP Core to accelerate mission-critical cryptographic functions without burdening the main CPU, delivering strong security with minimal overhead.

Built for Secure, High-Performance Embedded Systems

Integrating the CryptOne ECDSA engine into your hardware platform ensures fast, reliable, and standards-compliant cryptographic processing—ready for secure boot, firmware signing, identity management, over-the-air updates, and encrypted communication stacks. With its superior performance and compliance-driven design, the IP Core enables next-generation embedded devices to achieve robust protection with unmatched efficiency.

With CryptOne at the core of your security infrastructure, you can leverage elliptic-curve cryptography with confidence—empowering safer, faster, and more resilient electronic systems.

• Optional Side Channel Attacks countermeasures
• Input/Output EC point verification
• Fully synthesizable, synchronous design
• Highly configurable in terms of performance and resource consumption
• Minimum operation delay at 200 MHz:
  • Point multiplication:
    • EC256: 2.5 ms
    • EC384: 5.0 ms
  • ECDSA signature generation
    • EC256: 2.6 ms
    • EC384: 5.2 ms
  • ECDSA signature verification
    • EC256: 3.1 ms
    • EC384: 6.3 ms
• Estimated resource usage
  • from 30k to 110k NAND gates