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News Release from: Intersil | Subject: ISL9206
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 20 November 2006
Hash engine protects against
misconnection
Cost-effective fixed-secret hash engine is based on Intersil's second generation FlexiHash technology.
Intersil Corp has introduced the ISL9206, a highly cost-effective fixed-secret hash engine based on Intersil's second generation FlexiHash technology The device is suitable for protection against unapproved third-party products for a wide variety of low-cost applications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 28 Mar 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The ISL9206 provides a fast and flexible authentication process, and multipass authentication can be used to provide the highest possible security level.
Authentication is achieved through a challenge-response scheme that does not require a fixed challenge and therefore eliminates situations where eavesdropping on the communication bus could reveal the secrets.
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The unique secret is never communicated between the host and the device being authenticated.
Intersil's ISL9206 is ideal for use in systems such as mobile phones, printer cartridges, power tools, and medical devices that require active authentication to protect consumers against fraud and to protect intellectual property.
Mobile phones utilising lithium-based batteries are particularly vulnerable to counterfeit batteries and the ISL9206 will help to identify counterfeit batteries so the system can take appropriate action.
The ISL9206 is based on Intersil's second generation FlexiHash technology.
It has a wide operating voltage range and is suitable for direct powering from a single-cell Li-ion/Li-poly or a three-cell series NiMH battery pack.
Higher cell count/voltage packs are also supported by connecting to the lowest cell in the stack.
Communication with the host is achieved through a single-wire XSD interface, a lightweight subset of Intersil's ISD bus interface.
The XSD bus is compatible for use with serial ports offered by all 8250-compatible UARTs or a single GPIO (general purpose input and output) pin of a microprocessor.
The ISL9206 can be powered by the XSD bus when the bus pull-up voltage is 3.3V or higher.
The device connects directly to the cell terminals of a battery pack and includes an on-chip voltage regulation circuit, POR, and a noncrystal based oscillator for bus timing reference.
Key features of the ISL9206 include a challenge-response based authentication scheme using 32bit challenge code and 8bit authentication code, and a 16x8 OTP ROM stores up to three sets of 32bit host-selectable secrets with additional programmable memory for storage of up to 48bit of ID code and/or pack information.
The device's FlexiHash engine uses two sets of 32bit secrets for authentication code generation, and its nonunique mapping of the secret key to an 8bit authentication code maximises hacking difficulty due to need for exhaustive key search.
The ISL9206 supports CRC on read data and transfer bit-rate up to 23Kbit/s.
It offers a true "zero power" sleep mode - automatically entered after a bus inactivity time-out period, and a wide, -20 to +85C operating temperature range is covered.
Target applications for the ISL9206 include mobile phone battery pack authentication, printer and toner cartridges, high-power battery packs for power tools, mobility products, diagnostic equipment, add-on accessories, and other nonmonetary authentication applications.
The ISL9206 is available now in a 5-lead SOT-23 or a 6 lead 2x3 TDFN package.
Pb-free plus anneal is also available (RoHS compliant).
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