ST Secure Connectivity, Industrial IoT - ST NFC Memory and Security Chip

On August 15, 2023, at the Shanghai Electronics Show in Munich, there will be four major themes: smart travel, power & energy, Internet of Things, and interconnection.

At the just-concluded Shanghai Electronics Show in Munich, STMicroelectronics (ST) attracted many visitors with its outstanding position in the semiconductor industry. This exhibition ST focuses on the four themes of sustainable development, smart travel, power & energy, Internet of Things & interconnection.

Before the Internet of Things and the Internet, the reporter interviewed Wang Pengfei, product marketing manager of STMicroelectronics' security and connection department. Manager Wang shared how the company's three major product portfolios (NFC, STSAFE, eSIM) help industrial Internet and secure links .

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In the context of accelerating industrial digitalization and intelligent transformation, various terminal devices, instant messaging technologies, and secure connection technologies are continuously integrated into all aspects of the industry to greatly increase manufacturing efficiency, improve product quality, and reduce product costs. The transition to smart manufacturing will require strong semiconductor technology support, including not only advanced technologies and solutions, but also a comprehensive ecosystem. Manager Wang said that ST, as a world-leading semiconductor company, not only meets market demand, but also makes products gain greater advantages in differentiated competition.

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As one of the pioneers of NFC technology, STMicroelectronics provides a wide range of NFC products, including tags, readers, and dynamic tags to help smart home, industry, mobile payment, automobile, Internet of Things, wireless charging and other fields. As a short-range wireless communication technology, NFC technology has unique security advantages, convenience, fast connection, and low cost. Taking ST25NFC as an example, this series of products is highly secure and stable, and can be used in various IoT applications.

NFC from Near Field Communication to Wireless Charging

Originally, NFC was only used for near-field communication, but now it can be extended for low-power wireless charging applications. At the booth, an NFC wireless charging solution was highly concerned. The transmitter of this solution is configured on the charger base, using the NFC ST25R3916B reader, and the receiver uses the ST25DV04KC NFC dynamic tag. The same coil can be used for both data transmission and energy capture and collection for battery charging.

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At the same time, Manager Wang also talked about the advantages of ST NFC wireless charging. He shared that NFC wireless charging first brings great convenience to users, and can charge devices without a physical plug. It is worth mentioning that so far wireless charging has only been implemented in a very small number of products in the electrical industry, most of which require the use of large-sized geometric antennas, which limits the development of low-power applications, and ST's NFC wireless charging solution helps Device manufacturers have overcome this challenge with a solution that requires very little system size and can use a flexible antenna PCB. It is suitable for application scenarios within 1 watt of the receiving end, such as TWS earphones, smart rings, smart glasses and other wearable devices. Smaller and cheaper than traditional wireless charging antennas. At the same time, there is no need for charging contact points, which avoids problems such as corrosion of traditional charging contact points, and can also provide a channel for data transmission.

For manufacturers, wireless charging using NFC technology can be implemented in existing products that already embed this functionality, allowing device manufacturers to simplify the electronic and mechanical design of existing products and save material costs. Device manufacturers only need to configure their device settings and define NFC as a charging method for their devices. For the user, NFC wireless charging also brings additional flexibility and convenience to the end user, allowing them to use their smartphone as a backup power source to charge other connected NFC-enabled devices.

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TruST25 escorts ST NFC

The convenience of NFC has brought many benefits, and its security cannot be ignored. What security measures does ST embed in its own NFC chip? When it comes to the security of NFC chips, ST's digital signature TruST25 has to be mentioned. ST's labels are protected against counterfeiting using TruST25™ digital signatures, which are digitally signed by encryption. Easily and reliably identify the authenticity of RFID/NFC tags. Essentially, a digital signature is a secure form of electronic signature that ensures the integrity of signed content and identifies its origin. By using UIDs with digital signatures, label manufacturers can ensure that embedded information is authentic. In addition, label manufacturers can also use digital signatures to provide customers with a way to verify the authenticity of labels at any time, shared Manager Wang.

NFC will usher in a new breakthrough in the Internet of Things

In the era of the Internet of Things, more and more devices need to be interconnected. Although WiFi, Bluetooth and other technologies in wireless communication have become mainstream, the rapid development of NFC in recent years is also expected to play a greater role in various fields. As a simple and easy-to-implement short-range wireless communication technology, NFC can add an external wireless communication interface to connected devices at a very low cost. In addition, there are many wireless communication methods, including BT/BLE, WIFI, LORA, Zigbee, Thread, MATTER, ST's NFC tag and dynamic tag products can help quickly establish a network connection. And it simplifies complex network distribution methods. For example, in industrial or smart homes, processes such as camera scanning are often required before, but NFC can easily connect with just one touch.

STSAFE protects industrial IoT security issues

In addition, Manager Wang also introduced the STSAFE series chips of STMicroelectronics, which is a series of secure element products that provide authentication, confidentiality and platform integrity services, which can protect OEMs from cloning, counterfeiting, malware injection and unauthorized production violations.

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In addition, its application in the networked cloud device terminal has unique advantages, providing communication protection, so that services based on connected objects will not be affected by malicious objects or data manipulation during transmission.

The STSAFE-A110 is the latest STSAFE-A secure element, which features state-of-the-art security features to prevent counterfeiting of genuine peripherals and IoT devices. Another solution displayed by ST in this exhibition is the security and anti-counterfeiting solution for non-contact printer ink cartridges. The consumable cartridge end of this solution adopts STSAFE-A110 security chip for authentication and anti-counterfeiting. STSAFE-A110 hardware meets CC EAL5+ certification and can provide security protection based on customer-customized services. ST can help customers burn this certificate into the security chip in ST's security factory. In addition, the solution also uses NFC wireless charging technology, with the help of ST25NFC to realize wireless transmission of data and energy, and completely removes wired contacts, which is not easy to be eavesdropped and cracked. Compared with the traditional contact solution, it can effectively overcome the problems of poor connection reliability caused by contact aging and vibration. The chip can also be used in electric tool batteries, mobile phone batteries, etc., to ensure that users use genuine and safe consumables. In addition, the WPC Wireless Charging Consortium released a new enhanced wireless charging standard qi2, which requires that all devices supporting wireless charging above 5 watts must be embedded with a security chip, which will bring new breakthroughs in the development of STSAFE. Business cooperation contact information WhatsApp: +8618062443671

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Illegal devices accessing the network and tampering with the firmware software of devices on the network will cause serious damage and unbearable consequences to the network and the devices in it. Therefore, strong authentication of devices is important. STSAFE-A is a solution optimized for embedded systems, ensuring strong authentication, secure channel establishment and secure storage of applications to prevent fraud or counterfeiting. These are key elements for clients to build their brand ecosystems.

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To build secure and trusted systems, ST offers a complete set of Secure Elements covering multiple applications from embedded platforms to gateways and servers. Integrating the STSAFE secure element into the design and connecting the STSAFE to the design's processing unit helps authenticate the device and ensure platform integrity and data confidentiality.

Easily switch network providers with eSIM

Another product mentioned by Manager Wang is ST4SIM, which is ST's first GSMA-certified eSIM (embedded SIM) for industrial and Internet of Things and automobiles. The eSIM is soldered to the PCB, especially for some industrial applications. In the scene of vibration, the product is more solid and reliable. ST4SIM provides an extended and secure cellular connection solution that can be integrated into various environments, enabling industrial equipment to connect to the network in real time and easily switch to different network providers, ensuring the stability of the connection while securing assets Safety. It is worth noting that the new generation of ST4SIM-201 is a product certified by GSMA UICC security assurance, which is specially used for M2M communication and can be connected to 5G independent network.

To sum up, safe and smooth connections are highly valued in industrial digital transformation. ST, as a world-leading semiconductor supplier, provides users with advanced technologies and solutions in the field of industrial security connections with NFC, STSAFE, and eSIM as the core. The vision of STMicroelectronics is to make the connection of the Internet of Things easier and more convenient through this series of chips, and make the Internet more secure.

China's latest news: blockbuster new products to enter the high-end industrial market

Entering 2023, manufacturers at all levels of the industrial chain in the industrial control market under the background of Industry 4.0 will make full efforts to continuously accelerate the innovation of industrial manufacturing in the direction of digitalization, intelligence, and green development. According to Prismark statistics, the compound annual growth rate of the global industrial control market from 2019 to 2023 is 3%, and it is estimated that the global industrial control market will reach US$260 billion in 2023. In addition, according to statistics from Yole Development, the market size of NOR Flash in the memory segment will be 3.5 billion US dollars in 2021, and it is expected to grow to 4.9 billion US dollars in 2027, with an average annual compound growth rate of about 6%. It is foreseeable that MCU chips, embedded memories, etc. are the core components in the field of industrial control, and the market demand continues to rise. Many upstream manufacturers are also scrambling to be the first to launch products with higher performance and higher reliability to seize the market. machine.

At the 2023 Munich Shanghai Electronics Show held in July, the industry-leading semiconductor device supplier GigaDevice (hereinafter referred to as GigaDevice) has a product layout based on memory, microcontrollers, sensors and power chips, and displayed 50 The latest solution of the remaining money, among which the industrial theme exhibition area is to provide industry empowerment around the current popular industrial control, green energy and other market applications, and compete with a large number of domestic and foreign manufacturers on the spot.

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The first to bear the brunt is naturally the blockbuster new product - GD32H7 series. The GD32H7 series is the first domestic MCU product based on the Arm® Cortex®-M7 core launched by GigaDevice in May 2023. The main frequency can reach up to 600MHz, with up to 4MB of on-chip Flash and 1MB of SRAM. Coupled with memory and 64KB L1-Cache cache, and integrated hardware DSP, double-precision FPU, hardware trigonometric function accelerator TMU and filtering algorithm accelerator FAC and other functions, these built-in resources can greatly improve processing efficiency and real-time performance. In practical application scenarios, such as the realization of precise direction displacement and action sequence of industrial robots, etc., it is required to control the motor with more complex, finer and lower delay. GD32H7 can calmly deal with MCU performance, functions, real-time performance, interface speed, etc. new challenges posed. Various product purchases, business cooperation contact information WhatsApp: +8618062443671

At present, with the rise of emerging applications such as Industry 4.0, photovoltaics, and energy storage, GigaDevice is actively deploying and making continuous efforts, breaking through the traditional pattern and technical barriers of the semiconductor market for industrial applications, and has achieved a considerable market share, indicating that the local Manufacturers' chip design capabilities for high-end, high-performance, and high-reliability requirements are moving towards the first-line echelon, and they have gained the confidence and strength of long-term market verification in many vertical applications.

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The staff at the booth said that new infrastructure, dual-carbon and other fields are one of the key industries that GigaDevice has been focusing on and planning for a long time. In order to meet this new wave of renewable energy, GigaDevice continues to develop product lines such as memory, microcontrollers, and power chips, and is committed to creating a complete product ecological layout, accelerating customer and market verification, and accumulating industry application experience, so as to serve the customers. The incremental market that is gaining momentum injects the source of innovation.