Altium TASKING Automotive Development Tools Now Support Embedded IT Security From ESCRYPT

Sep­tem­ber 17, 2020

Enhanc­ing Cyber­se­cu­ri­ty for Auto­mo­tive Embed­ded Soft­ware

San Diego, CA, Sep­tem­ber 17th, 2020: Altium has joined forces with ESCRYPT, a lead­ing provider of IT secu­ri­ty solu­tions in embed­ded sys­tems, to enhance auto­mo­tive cyber­se­cu­ri­ty.

Con­tacts

TASKING Press Con­tact

Flo­ri­an Süß­mair
+49 1522 2550945
florian.suessmair@tasking.com

ESCRYPT Press Con­tact

Mar­tin Delle
+49 234 43870-290
martin.delle@escrypt.com

For over 25 years Altium TASKING has helped auto­mo­tive soft­ware engi­neers meet pro­por­tion­ate­ly chal­leng­ing stan­dards, includ­ing func­tion­al safe­ty fea­tures and elec­tric vehi­cle cer­ti­fi­ca­tion.

The union of TASKING and ESCRYPT gives auto­mo­bile man­u­fac­tur­ers and sup­pli­ers an easy and cost-effec­tive way to imple­ment enhanced secu­ri­ty fea­tures from com­pil­er to secu­ri­ty soft­ware in accor­dance with ISO 26262.

TASKING’s develop­ment envi­ron­ment eas­i­ly sup­ports the host-side inte­gra­tion of ESCRYPT’s CycurHSM secu­ri­ty soft­ware. ESCRYPT’s CycurHSM is specif­i­cal­ly tar­get­ed at micro­con­trollers with an inte­grat­ed, phys­i­cal­ly encap­su­lat­ed hard­ware secu­ri­ty mod­ule (HSM), such as Infi­neon Tricore/Aurix, STMi­cro­elec­tron­ics Cho­rus or Rene­sas RH850.

The embed­ded secu­ri­ty soft­ware ensures free­dom from inter­fer­ence up to ASIL-D in safe­ty-crit­i­cal sys­tems and pro­vides the nec­es­sary API inter­faces. CycurHSM is now qual­i­fied for the TASKING tool­chain, whose tools are opti­mized for safe­ty-crit­i­cal real-time appli­ca­tions and sup­port the same hard­ware plat­forms. This sim­pli­fies the adap­ta­tion of IT secu­ri­ty func­tions to the indi­vid­ual require­ments of the vehi­cle con­trol unit and the E/E archi­tec­ture, and short­ens turn­around times.

Auto­mo­tive sup­pli­ers and OEMs can now use the TASKING develop­ment envi­ron­ment to quick­ly and cost-effec­tive­ly qual­i­fy their sys­tems to an ASIL-D safe­ty con­cept. CycurHSM then per­forms the nec­es­sary IT secu­ri­ty func­tions in the microcontroller’s hard­ware secu­ri­ty mod­ule, such as data encryp­tion and authen­ti­ca­tion, secure boot­ing, flash­ing and debug­ging or run­time manip­u­la­tion detec­tion.

As Franz Maidl, Direc­tor of Glob­al TASKING Busi­ness elab­o­rates: “The appli­ca­tions devel­oped with our tools are intend­ed to pro­duce con­trol units and vehi­cle sys­tems that are safe in every respect. It is there­fore a must to include the IT secu­ri­ty func­tions direct­ly in the develop­ment process.”

Raimund Stam­pa, Prod­uct Man­ag­er CycurHSM at ESCRYPT, adds: “For many of our cus­tomers who work with TASKING develop­ment envi­ron­ments, the seam­less inte­gra­tion of IT secu­ri­ty mea­sures into their sys­tems will now become even eas­i­er by a con­sid­er­able mar­gin.”

ABOUT ALTIUM

Altium LLC (ASX: ALU), a glob­al soft­ware com­pa­ny head­quar­tered in San Diego, Calif., is accel­er­at­ing the pace of inno­va­tion through elec­tron­ics. From indi­vid­ual inven­tors to multi­na­tion­al cor­po­ra­tions, more PCB design­ers and engi­neers choose Altium soft­ware to design and real­ize elec­tron­ics-based prod­ucts. For over 30 years, Altium has been deliv­er­ing soft­ware that max­i­mizes the pro­duc­tiv­i­ty of PCB design­ers and elec­tri­cal engi­neers, focus­ing on devel­op­ing soft­ware that is easy to use and imple­ment, with solu­tions that enable inno­va­tion and deliv­er indus­try-lead­ing user pro­duc­tiv­i­ty.

Prod­ucts include Altium Design­er®, Altium Con­cord Pro™, Altium 365®, Altium NEXUS®, Cir­cuit­Mak­er®, Cir­cuit­Stu­dio®, Octopart®, and TASKING®. To learn more about Altium, visit www.altium.com.

About TASKING

TASKING is the embed­ded soft­ware divi­sion of Altium (ASX:ALU). TASKING develop­ment tools are used world­wide by car man­u­fac­tur­ers and auto­mo­tive sup­pli­ers to devel­op high-per­for­mance micro­con­troller appli­ca­tions in the fields of pow­er­train, body/chassis con­trol and ADAS appli­ca­tions, both in tra­di­tion­al envi­ron­ments and for elec­tric vehi­cles. Users in these and relat­ed mar­kets (machin­ery, agri­cul­ture, etc.) rely on TASKING develop­ment tools for devel­op­ing the lat­est appli­ca­tions while achiev­ing opti­mum reli­a­bil­i­ty, func­tion­al safe­ty and per­for­mance.

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion is avail­able at www.tasking.com

About ESCRYPT

ESCRYPT is a lead­ing provider of IT secu­ri­ty solu­tions in embed­ded sys­tems as well as con­sult­ing ser­vices and ser­vices for enter­prise secu­ri­ty and IT secured man­u­fac­tur­ing. Nowa­days ESCRYPT solu­tions are used mil­lions of times, espe­cial­ly in the areas of auto­mo­tive secu­ri­ty and auto­mo­tive series pro­duc­tion. ESCRYPT also pro­vides ded­i­cat­ed secu­ri­ty ser­vices for the Bosch Group’s Cor­po­rate IT and its prod­ucts.

ESCRYPT was acquired by ETAS GmbH, a mem­ber of the Bosch Group, in 2012. Head­quar­tered in Bochum, Ger­many, ESCRYPT has four other Ger­man loca­tions as well as sub­sidiaries in the Unit­ed King­dom, France, Italy, Swe­den, the USA, Cana­da, India, China, Korea and Japan.

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion is avail­able at www.escrypt.com