Data Security Products

Helion IP Core Products

Helion offer a broad range of mature and well proven data security IP cores offering highly efficient and easy to use solutions to most requirements. Full support is available for both ASIC and FPGA technologies, and in most cases we can supply fully compatible versions covering multiple targets allowing easy migration. Our ASIC solutions can be used with any foundry as we supply fully synthesisable RTL source code as standard. Our FPGA solutions are fully optimised for each vendor we support, to ensure that the very best results are obtained; this way we often achieve ASIC-like performance. Our FPGA cores are available in versions supporting ACTEL, ALTERA, LATTICE, QUICKLOGIC and XILINX FPGA devices. For more information on technology support, please see our Supported Technologies page.

Follow the links below for more information on our full portfolio of data security cores.

Encryption AES, DES, Triple-DES, Blowfish, ARC4; these are the encryption algorithms commonly used to protect bulk data, and form the heart of such protocols as IPsec and SSL, offering high data throughput capabilities in a small footprint

Authentication & Hashing SHA-1, MD5, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, AES-XCBC, AES-OMAC; these are the hashing algorithms typically used to provide authentication functions in security protocols such as IPsec and SSL.

Combined encryption & authentication AES-CCM, AES-OCB, AES-GCM; these are solutions which provide both confidentiality and authentication in a single algorithm, as used in many recent wireless, networking and storage standards such as 802.11, 802.16 and IEEE1619

Security applications IPsec, SSL, MACsec, Wireless security (802.11, 802.15, 802.16), Disk and Tape Storage, Digital Cinema and MPEG DVB-CSA; this range of highly optimised application specific security solutions provide the encryption and authentication requirements for a number of industry standard protocols. These application areas include secure wired and wireless communications, secure tape and disk storage solutions, and systems for digital cinema and MPEG conditional access.

Public Key cryptography RSA, Diffie-Hellman, Modular Exponentiation; these are the encryption algorithms commonly used as the basis for Public Key Cryptography, and offer much increased performance over solutions running on standard processors where additional speed is required.

Random Number Generation TRNG and X9.17/X9.31 PRNG; high quality sources of true-random and pseudo-random numbers for use in ASIC and FPGA

Data Compression LZRW3; high performance data compression hardware engines for use in ASIC and FPGA

Miscellaneous AMBA compatible bus interface for use in ASIC, OPB/PLB interfaces for use in Xilinx FPGA, Hypertransport interface for use in Xilinx FPGA