Innovating Secure, High Performance Processors

Technologies

Cybersecurity

Modern processors face significant cybersecurity challenges, including Transient Execution Attacks (such as Spectre and Meltdown), Silicon Tampering and Hardware Trojan Horses. Transient Execution Attacks exploit speculative execution vulnerabilities to leak sensitive data, while silicon tampering and Hardware Trojan Horses involves the insertion of hardware trojans during the distributed design flow or integration of third-party IPs. These trojans can compromise system integrity and critical tasks, posing severe risks to secure operations. All IONION processors are equipped with the following advanced cybersecurity features to mitigate these threats effectively:

  • Complete protection against Transient Execution Attacks

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

  • Real-time Silicon Tampering and Hardware Trojan Horses detection and response

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

  • Secure boot

    Ensures that only trusted software is executed during the boot process, preventing malicious code from running.

  • Advanced encryption

    Our processors use state-of-the-art encryption algorithms to protect sensitive data from unauthorized access.

High Performance

Our processors deliver exceptional performance, enabling high-speed data processing and efficient multitasking. Leveraging cutting-edge architecture and proprietary technologies, IONION processors are designed to handle the most demanding applications with ease. IONION Processors are equipped with the following features to ensure high performance:

  • Proprietary concurrent task speedup technology

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

  • Cutting-edge architecture

    Designed to maximize processing speed and efficiency for demanding applications.

  • Optimized multitasking

    Supports simultaneous execution of multiple tasks without compromising performance.

  • High-speed data processing

    Capable of handling large volumes of data quickly and reliably.

  • Industrial Network on Chip

    IONION processors feature unique network-on-chip communication infrastructures

  • Optimized 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. Our reliability features include:

  • End-to-end data path integrity

    This ensures that data remains uncorrupted throughout its journey within the processor, from input to output.

  • ECC/EDAC on pipelines, registers, and memories

    Error-correction code and error detection and correction mechanisms are crucial for identifying and fixing single and multi-bit errors that can occur due to various factors, including radiation in space.

  • Configurable memory scrubbing

    This proactive technique involves periodically reading, checking with ECC/EDAC, and correcting errors in memories to prevent the accumulation of faults. The ability to configure scrubbing allows for optimization based on mission requirements and environmental conditions.

  • Software configurability of protection mechanisms

    The ability to enable, disable, or adjust the parameters of fault tolerance features through software allows for flexibility and optimization during different mission phases or in response to changing environmental conditions.