by Axel Streicher
On Tuesday, March 1, the “embedded world 2011” exhibition and conference in Nuremberg, Germany, opened its gates. Within a few hours, the embedded AWARD jury announced to the public and the press that the MPC5646, the newest member of Freescale’s Qorivva 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) built on Power Architecture technology, won the embedded AWARD 2011 in the hardware category.
What is the innovation behind the Qorivva MPC5646 family that made the high-profile jury select it as the embedded award 2011 winner?
Security of automotive electronics systems is an escalating concern for car makers, car owners and the insurance industry. Electronic control of automotive systems is steadily increasing, with large amounts of data streaming through body control modules and gateways. The Qorivva MPC5646 microcontroller is helping significantly reduce the security risks for that data. It is the first MCU for the automotive market that incorporates a cryptographic services engine (CSE), which enables secure and trustworthy transmission of information between electronic components. The cryptographic capabilities are targeted at a number of use cases such as blocking illegal manipulation of a vehicle’s mileage, activating immobilizers that prevent a car from being stolen without the key or preventing individual ECUs (electronic control units) from being dismantled and reused in other vehicles.
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