Cambridge – Wednesday, March 28, 2020 – Trusted Firmware, the open governance community project hosted by Linaro Community Projects Division, today announced that Renesas Electronics Corporation and NXP Semiconductors N.V. have joined the Trusted Firmware Project. Members to date include Arm, Cypress, Data IO, Futurewei, Google, Linaro, ST Microelectronics and Texas Instruments.
“With a forecasted one trillion embedded devices connecting to the cloud, Renesas wants to ensure its 32-bit microcontroller solutions are as secure as possible”, said Daryl Khoo, Vice President of Marketing, IoT Platform Business Division at Renesas. “Joining the Trusted Firmware Project is the logical next step in securing our RA MCU Family featuring Arm Cortex-M processors.”
“NXP’s joining of the Trusted Firmware Project continues our commitment to delivering secure software enablement for our Arm Cortex-A and Cortex-M processors,” said Rob Oshana, vice president of Software Engineering R&D at NXP Semiconductors, “Embedded developers looking for a trusted code base can easily leverage the open source software available for our broad portfolio of Arm-based controllers.”
“The industry must take responsibility for ensuring trust is built into devices,” said Shebu Varghese Kuriakose, chairman of the board for the Trusted Firmware Project and senior software technology manager at Arm. “The Trusted Firmware Project was founded for the Arm ecosystem to collaborate on building secure software and solving the complexity of security at scale. New platinum members, Renesas and NXP, bring extensive and valuable experience to the project.”
The Trusted Firmware Project is designed to reduce porting and integration work across the ecosystem by creating reusable reference implementations for SoC and Trusted OS developers. The project collaborates on the development of Trusted Firmware-A (TF-A), Trusted Firmware-M (TF-M) and OP-TEE.
TF-A is the reference Secure world software for Arm Cortex-A and Arm Neoverse processors across all market segments. It provides a trusted boot flow and standard implementation of Arm SMCCC, PSCI, SDEI, SCMI, TBBR Specifications and PSA FF-A (SPCI). TF-M is the reference implementation of Platform Security Architecture (PSA) designed for Arm Cortex-M processors and meets the PSA Certified requirements, accelerating the route to certification. It provides Secure Boot and a set of Secure Services accessible via PSA Certified Functional APIs. OP-TEE is a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) designed as a companion to a non-secure Linux kernel running on Arm Cortex-A processors using Arm TrustZone technology.
This gives SoC developers and OEMs a reference trusted code base complying with the relevant Arm specifications and forms the foundations of a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) on application processors, or the Secure Processing Environment (SPE) on microcontrollers. The collaborative design, development and validation amongst the project members allows faster and cost-effective deployment of secure devices.
For further information on the Trusted Firmware Project, visit trustedfirmware.org.
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