Technology

Secure by design.
Fast by architecture.

Proprietary innovations on a RISC-V foundation deliver hardware security, optimised performance and resilience for high-end systems.

Cybersecurity

Modern processors face Transient Execution Attacks, silicon tampering and Hardware Trojans inserted during distributed design flows or third-party IP integration. Every IONION processor is equipped to mitigate these threats.

Complete protection against Transient Execution Attacks

Thanks to our verified proprietary technology, our processors are fully immune to Transient Execution Attacks such as Spectre and Meltdown.

Real-time Silicon Tampering and Hardware Trojan detection and response

Built-in mechanisms detect and respond to silicon tampering and Hardware Trojans, ensuring system integrity and preventing breaches of critical tasks.

Advanced Security Subsystem

A hardware Root of Trust, secure boot, offloading of sensitive and secure computations, and a physically separated Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) on die.

Advanced encryption

State-of-the-art encryption algorithms protect sensitive data from unauthorised access.

High performance

Leveraging cutting-edge architecture and proprietary technologies, IONION processors deliver high-speed data processing and efficient multitasking for the most demanding applications.

Proprietary concurrent task speedup technology

Our unique proprietary technology accelerates the execution of concurrent tasks, providing unmatched performance for multitasking environments.

Cutting-edge architecture

Designed to maximise processing speed and efficiency for demanding applications.

Industrial Network-on-Chip

IONION processors feature unique network-on-chip communication infrastructures.

Optimised memory model

Our memory model is specifically designed to reduce latency and improve data access speeds, ensuring seamless performance.

Reliability

All IONION processors are engineered to address the reliability challenges of safety-critical embedded systems, particularly in space.

End-to-end data path integrity

Data remains uncorrupted throughout its journey within the processor, from input to output.

ECC/EDAC on pipelines, registers and memories

Error-correction and error detection and correction mechanisms identify and fix single and multi-bit errors, including those caused by radiation in space.

Active memory scrubbing

Advanced memory scrubbing continuously reads, checks and corrects memories to prevent the accumulation of faults, tuned to mission requirements and environmental conditions.

Software-configurable protection mechanisms

Enable, disable or tune fault-tolerance features from software for flexibility across mission phases and changing environments.

Overview

Everything on one die.

Security, performance and fault tolerance are designed into the silicon itself, not bolted on afterwards.

Detail of an IONION die: memory macros, routing and logic

Proprietary hardware security

Protection against Transient Execution Attacks, silicon tampering and Hardware Trojans.

Network-on-Chip

First Network-on-Chip communications infrastructure for industrial-grade processors.

Optimised memory model

Lower latency and faster data access for seamless performance.

Cryptographic accelerators

Hardware encryption and secure boot so only trusted code runs.

Proprietary Speedup technology

Faster execution of concurrent, multitasking workloads.

Rad-hard by design

ECC/EDAC, scrubbing and data path integrity for space environments.

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