QuickLogic Corporation announced a partnership with Xiphera to implement Xiphera's xQlave?? quantum-secure cryptographic IP cores on QuickLogic's eFPGA architecture. This partnership provides architects with a path towards securing their assets against the quantum threat, enabling them to stay one step ahead in the evolving landscape of cyber threats.

With the rapid development of quantum computers and the increasing threat they pose to information and network security, the need for robust cybersecurity measures has become more crucial than ever. Xiphera answers the quantum-threat with its xQlave?? family of PQC IP cores.

The family includes ML-KEM (Kyber) and ML-DSA (Dilithium) - primary PQC algorithms in the PQC standard draft of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) - with logic-only implementations. Together, these IP cores provide quantum-secure key exchange, digital signature and authentication. eFPGA technology offers two key benefits to implementing hardware security - distributed on-chip programmability, and the ability to parallelize intensive algorithmic computation requirements.

This enables the eFPGA IP cores to offload heavy cryptographic operations from processor/software implementations, resulting in superior boot up and key calculation times. Furthermore, keys and secrets can be isolated from the rest of the system providing secure access only to trusted components. eFPGA technology also enables so-called crypto agility, which is the ability to update underlaying cryptographic algorithms and protocols, even after an SoC/ASIC has already been deployed into the field.

QuickLogic'seFPGA IP is generated using the Australis?? IP generator, which supports any foundry and any process geometry while at the same time having the ability to create customized eFPGA IP that meets customers' PPA requirements and provides the ideal hardware platform for post-quantum cryptographic algorithms.