Overview

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the importance of cyber resilience cannot be overstated. The rise of modern technology – including automation, machine learning (ML), 5G, and artificial intelligence (AI) – has provided us with a host of benefits and advancements, but it has also opened doors for increased vulnerability to cyberattacks. Most of today’s security solutions often do not have the real-time protection required to manage multiple devices if an attack does occur. The Lattice Sentry™ solution stack can help minimize in-system firmware attack vulnerabilities by providing real-time, dynamic protection, detection, and recovery capabilities to programmable components in a system.

Lattice Sentry provides customers with a complete reference platform, fully validated IP building blocks, easy-to-use FPGA design tools, reference design/demonstrations, and a network of custom design services compliant with National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Platform Firmware Resiliency (PFR) Guidelines. Together, these form a comprehensive set of tools to help system developers more easily design with security in mind and get to market quickly. This includes a suite of ready-to-use, cyber resilient, production-validated IP cores to protect and monitor SPI and I2C devices and their buses within a system, as well as demo boards and reference designs to test and showcase PFR capabilities. The Lattice Sentry solution stack is supported by the Lattice Propel™ software design tool, which helps users who are unfamiliar with FPGA languages customize their PFR implementations, enabling them to modify the C code for the stack’s RISC-V processor IP and visually lay out the IP used to create a complete system, drastically reducing time to market.