NXP Semiconductors EdgeLock® A5000

Plug & Trust: Authentication made secure, scalable and easy

The EdgeLock A5000 secure authenticator (SA) offers Common Criteria EAL6+ certified security, with symmetric and asymmetric crypto, for simple IoT use cases, complementing NXP’s EdgeLock secure element (SE) family portfolio with an authentication-optimized product.

Key features

• Plug & Trust for easy design-in with a dedicated authentication product support package
• Ready-to-use example codes for authentication use cases
• Easy integration with different MCU & MPU platforms and OSs
• Compliant to many authentication security standards like DLMS/COSEM, Qi 1.3 and ISO15118

Additional features

• Certified Common Criteria (CC) EAL6+ HW with dedicated authentication software
• PKI cryptography based on ECC NIST P-256 and P-384
• ECDSA, ECDH/ECDHE
• 3DES and AES (AES modes: CBC, CTR, ECB, CCM, GCM)
• HMAC, CMAC, GMAC, SHA-256/384
• HKDF, PRF (TLS-PSK)
• DRBG/TRNG compliant to NIST SP800-90A/B
• Secured flash user memory up to 8 kB
• I2C target (up to fast speed mode, 1 Mbit/s)
• Secure binding with host MCU/MPU, and bus encryption
• Secure credential injection with end-to-end encryption
• Advanced access control policies to credentials and data stored on chip
• Extended temperature range (-40 to +105 °C)
• Small and very thin HXQFN20 package particularly suited for space limited applications (3 mm x 3 mm x 0.33 mm)

Applications

• Energy management systems and smart metering
• EV Chargers
• Battery systems and eBikes
• Smart home
• Mobile accessories
• Gaming, medical and sensors
• Computing

Available tools

OM-A5000ARD: This A5000 Arduino compatible development kit can be used in various ways, for example via the Arduino interface compatible to any board featuring an Arduino compatible header including many i.MX, LPC and Kinetis boards or via a direct I2C connection. This kit allows evaluation of the A5000 product variant features and simplifies the development of secure IoT applications.