San Jose, California, November 27, 2012 — Maxim Integrated Products (NASDAQ: MXIM) announced the highly integrated MAX32590 microcontroller, the latest addition to the DeepCover™ security family, which provides industry-leading security. By utilizing enhanced security features to meet the requirements of new security standards, this microcontroller is suitable for use in next-generation high-reliability devices such as financial terminals and multimedia-enabled portable EFT-POS terminals.

The MAX32590, a single-chip security microcontroller, represents a significant improvement over previous designs that required numerous additional discrete components for use in financial terminals. Compared to competitor designs, the MAX32590 offers more diverse connectivity options and enables the meeting of emerging industry security standards through enhanced security features. Furthermore, by integrating external memory encryption and integrity checks, it not only simplifies system integration but also enhances IP protection capabilities and improves overall protection against attacks. Achieving a high level of integration allows for reduced design size and significantly lower implementation costs. By using a comprehensive financial terminal reference design that adopts the MAX32590, the product design time and time to market can be significantly reduced.

Key Features
• Cost reduction through high-level integration: Various connectivity options including a video-playable ARM926 core, dual external memory controllers, 10/100 Ethernet MAC, and USB host and device controllers.
• Reduced Time-to-Market: Rapidly develop feature-rich PCI-PTS 3.1 pre-certified plug-and-play financial terminals running a secure Linux® BSP using financial terminal reference designs.
• External Memory Protection: Integrated with unique “on-the-fly” external memory encryption and integrity check features
• Integration of various security features: 24kB AES user-encryptable NVSRAM and 256-bit flip-flop key storage capable of immediate erasure upon unauthorized tampering, dynamic sensor and environmental sensor controllers for intrusion detection, hardware encryption engine, public key-based secure bootloader

Industry evaluation
“Financial terminal designers are facing the challenge of meeting increasingly high demands for security, connectivity, and multimedia. By integrating all the necessary features to achieve maximum security, Maxim’s MAX32590 will enable designers to work on designs much faster and more conveniently by utilizing this new security microcontroller and reference designs,” said Dany Nativel, Head of Security Products at Maxim.