IAR Systems’ C-Trust tool supports NXP’s LPC55S6x
C-Trust, the security development tool which is an extension to the IAR Embedded Workbench development toolchain now supports LPC55S6x microcontrollers from NXP.
The LPC55S6x are dual-core Arm Cortex-M33 microcontrollers, which leverage the Armv8-M architecture to introduce new levels of performance and advanced security capabilities. One of the cores includes Arm TrustZone technology and a memory protection unit. The microcontroller is equipped with crypto accelerators for symmetric and asymmetric cryptography and a physically unclonable function (PUF) to counter cloning and counterfeiting. It has a true random number generator (TRNG), a unique device identifier, secure general purpose I/Os, secure authenticate debug capabilities, a secure boot with root-of-trust keys and anti-rollback protection, real-time Prince encryption/decryption of the on-chip flash and it supports the device identification composition engine (DICE) as specified by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG).
C-Trust is as an extension of the IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm and enables developers to protect an existing or new application and enables them to mastering the deeper complexities of security, through the use of security context profiles. The profiles are developed by Secure Thingz, a global domain expert in device security, and include all the necessary security and encryption settings, such as cryptographic keys and certificates, secure boot manager configuration, access to platform security features, application update process and policy, and device memory layout. C-Trust protects against IP theft, malware injection, counterfeiting and over production. It uses the hardware security features of Arm TrustZone to protect both the secure boot manager and the cryptographic keys needed to protect software IP.
IAR Systems and Secure Thingz offer the Security from Inception Suite. This set of tools and services are for implementing and customising security in embedded applications. The suite of tools for secure transfer of designs into production includes Secure Desktop Provisioner. C-Trust and Secure Desktop Provisioner support many mainstream devices as well as devices secured by Arm TrustZone technology, such as the LPC55S6x microcontrollers.
