Mouser Electronics, the industry-leading New Product Introduction (NPI) distributor with the widest selection of semiconductors and electronic components, now stocks Microchip's ICs that provide cryptographic authentication with hardware-based key storage, supporting a variety of secure authentication applications.

Mouser announced on the 10th that it is now stocking Microchip Technology's ECC204 security authentication IC product.

This ECC204 secure authentication IC is a cryptographic authentication device with protected storage for private keys, certificates, symmetric keys, or user data.

This hardware-based key storage solution supports a variety of secure authentication applications, including ecosystem control, single-use product and accessory authentication, symmetric authentication using HMAC keys, and limited-use single-use applications.

Microchip's ECC204 secure authentication IC, available from Mouser, provides a robust suite of authentication solutions.

The device provides hardware support for asymmetric signing, including FIPS186-4 elliptic curve digital signatures and NIST standard P-256 elliptic curve support.

This ECC204 IC also features an internal high-quality NIST SP 800-90A/B/C random number generator that supports asymmetric key generation.

This security authentication IC is a hardware for SHA-256 and HMAC., and the device's field-programmable electrically erasable read-only memory (EEPROM) contains a single ECC private key, a single symmetric secret key, and 64 bytes of user memory.

The ECC204 IC offers an extended industrial operating temperature range of -40°C to +105°C.

The device is available in small 8-pad UDFN, 8-lead SOIC, and 3-lead contact package options for design flexibility.

The Microchip ECC204 secure authentication IC is supported on the EV27Y72A 3-lead contact mikroBUS™ socket board.

This socket board can be used with any microcontroller board that supports the MikroElektronika mikroBUS interface.

This modular design allows users to reuse the socket board across multiple prototypes and applications.

The socket board provides engineers with a simple, low-cost option to configure and test devices before mass production.