Cortus SAS and the AIOTI announce that Cortus has joined the Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation. AIOTI is the multi-stakeholder platform for stimulating IoT Innovation in Europe, bringing together small and large companies, start-ups and scale-ups, academia, policy makers and end-users and representatives of society in an end-to-end approach. Cortus SAS is a European IoT innovator with expertise ranging from secure embedded systems to high performance multi-processor systems.
Cortus offers a complete single chip Internet-of-Things (IoT) solution based around its secure and ultra-low power CIoT25 device. It is fully supported by a comprehensive Software Development Kit (SDK) for the DASH7 and Wi-SUN wireless communication protocols. It provides a reference platform that software and hardware designers can leverage to get their product to market in as short a time as possible. The Cortus CIoT25 System-on-Chip (SoC) is an ideal solution for IoT-connected smart home and building devices and other applications such as Electronic Shelf Label (ESL), Logistics, Parking, etc. Engineering samples of this device along with a reference platform and complete SDK are currently being delivered to selected clients.
Cortus sees IoT as increasingly key to society, with needs and opportunities constantly emerging. Their unique set of talents and expertise are fully aligned with these challenges and the AIOTI will be a solid springboard into this connected future.
Cortus has extensive experience developing embedded connectivity, security and IoT solutions for customers based around its rich IP portfolio and sector knowledge. This experience will contribute to the AIOTI extending the depth and extent of the resources available to the whole of their membership.
The world of IoT offers a number of interesting challenges – power consumption, connectivity and most importantly security. Connectivity implies interoperability and it is here that an alliance federates disparate actors. Cortus feels that collaboration is a key aspect to ensuring that the benefits of IoT and the associated technologies are deployed seamlessly and without threat to security. The AIOTI is the perfect platform for this collaboration.
Michael Chapman (CEO) said “I am certain that my IoT teams will be able to contribute their expertise and collaborate with the other members of AIOTI to move the industry forward.”
Damir Filipovic (Secretary General) said “I am pleased to welcome Cortus into our alliance, collaboration and standardisation fuels the growth of the internet of things and enables effective edge computing by providing frameworks that guide the interoperability of data and devices.”
AIOTI is the multi-stakeholder platform for stimulating IoT Innovation in Europe, bringing together small and large companies, start-ups and scale-ups, academia, policy makers and end-users and representatives of society in an end-to-end approach. We work with partners in a global context. We strive to leverage, share and promote best practices in the IoT ecosystems, be a one-stop point of information on all relevant aspects of IoT Innovation to its members while proactively addressing key issues and roadblocks for economic growth, acceptance and adoption of IoT Innovation in society.
AIOTI’s contribution goes beyond technology and addresses horizontal elements across application domains, such as matchmaking and stimulating cooperation in IoT ecosystems, creating joint research roadmaps, driving convergence of standards and interoperability and defining policies. We also put them in practice in vertical application domains with societal and economic relevance.
About Cortus SAS
Cortus is a fabless semiconductor manufacturing company headquartered in Mauguio (near Montpellier, France).
Cortus provides IC devices from a simple MCU to a high-end SoC based around its broad IP portfolio which includes processor, digital, analog, mixed-signal, RF and security IP; in many areas such as Automotive, IoT/NB-IoT and Industrial. Over 9 billion devices have been manufactured containing Cortus processors and IP.
Cortus is a core contributing member and board member of the DASH7 Alliance.
Cortus is a member of the Wi-SUN Alliance.
Cortus is a Platinum Founding Member of the RISC-V Foundation and strategic member of RISC-V International.
AIOTI, an international not-for-profit association set up in 2016 to contribute to the creation of a dynamic European IoT ecosystem and speed up the take up of IoT, gathers members from key European IoT players, as well as research centres, universities, associations and end-user representatives. The main aim of AIOTI is to foster the deployment and market uptake of the IoT by developing strong, collaborative, cross-sector European ecosystems. AIOTI supports the strategic development of H2020/FP9 large scale IoT pilots, gathering actionable insights on market obstacles for IoT deployment, maps EU and Members States IoT innovation and standardisation activities, provides bridges to international initiatives, and provides expert input to the European Commission and EU member states in connection with all structural and regulatory matters central to the creation and maintenance of a favourable environment for IoT in Europe.
Mauguio, France – June, 14th 2021: Cortus S.A.S., a leader in custom Systems-on-Chip (SoC) design services and integrated circuit(IC) provider, today announced that it is developing the high-performance Out-of-Order (OoO) processor core which is at the heart of the European eProcessor project. This project is lead by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and is supported by Euro HPC funding.
With its international team of experts in advanced processor architecture and SoC design, Cortus brings leading technology innovations and industry leadership to this project. Cortus is recognized globally for its expertise in high-performance and ultra low power digital, mixed-signal, analog and RF design as well as processor architecture and design.
The processor contributed to the eProcessor project includes full cache coherency to enable large scale systems with a very large numbers of processors for a full scale super computer.
The processor implements the RISC-V 64-bit instruction set architecture. This offers numerous advantages compared to the common CISC architecture implemented by Intel and AMD. In RISC-V the large number of compiler visible register names combined with a load/store architecture and absence of memory to memory operations means many fewer memory operations are required. Exploiting the RISC-V Weak Memory Ordering model in conjunction with fewer memory operations allows dynamic execution optimizations which otherwise would not be possible within a Total Store Order approach. This allows a RISC-V processor to surpass Intel/AMD in Instructions Per Cycle (IPC). Further, optimized implementations of atomic memory operations in conjunction with the cache hierarchy improves the performance of multi-threaded applications such as those which run on a large scale HPC system.
Working with a strong European consortium enables Cortus to build a solid foundation of high-end processor coresfor High Performance Computing (HPC). Other optimized versions will be derived for Data Server, Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), central automotive CPUsand Mobile phones CPUs, to mention just a few.
Cortus offers a comprehensive ecosystem including IDE, compilers, assembler, linker, debugger andtrace (supporting profiling and MC/DC for safety certifications) all of which have been carefully tested and integrated delivering significant valueto Cortus’ strategic partners and customers.
About Cortus
Cortus is a leading semiconductor, embedded systems and IoT solutions company headquartered in Mauguio (near Montpellier, France) with offices in Meyreuil (France) and Moscow (Russia) as well as subsidiaries in Greece, Italy, Brazil and Taiwan.
Cortus provides a full range of IC design services based around their broad IP portfolio which includes processors, digital, analog, mixed-signal and RF IP; prototyping and verification solutions in many areas such as automotive, image processing, industrial controllers, satellites, M2M controllers, secure microcontrollers, smart metering, wireless communication, touch screen controllers, IoT devices, SIM cards, bank cards, e-passports, etc.
Cortus is a board member of the DASH7 Alliance.
Cortus is one of the dozen Platinum Founding members of the RISC-V Foundation and a strategic member of RISC-V International. For more information, visit: www.cortus.com.
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Company Contact: Christophe Genevois
Director of Operations
WISeKey Partners with Cortus to Secure Automated Vehicles Capable of Controlling All Aspects of Driving Without Human Intervention
While automated vehicles become more and more connected, they also become increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks with dramatic consequences on safety. Security specialists, WISeKey and Cortus, join forces to define the future of safety for automated vehicles.
Geneva, Switzerland / Mauguio, France – March 24, 2021: WISeKey International Holding Ltd. (“WISeKey”) (SIX: WIHN, NASDAQ: WKEY), a leading global cybersecurity, AI, and IoT company, and Cortus SAS (“Cortus”), a leader in custom Systems-on-Chip (SoC) design services and IP core provider, today announced they have entered into a strategic partnership to deliver the strongest end-to-end digital security to the automotive industry. This cooperation will shortly expand to other related areas including the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and High-Performance Computing (HPC).
The global autonomous vehicle market shipment was estimated at 6.7 thousand units in 2020 and is expected to reach 51.6 thousand units in 2021. The global autonomous vehicle market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 63.1% from 2021 to 2030 to reach 4,223.8 thousand units by 2030.
While global annual sales of passenger car are estimated to remain stable at 70 million units over the next ten years, driver assistance features are expected to dramatically increase from the current ABS, emergency braking, or blind-spot monitoring to autonomous driving. Along with this evolution, vehicles are also increasingly becoming automated and connected, making them easy targets for hackers. The onboard computers must be secured to protect their data and ultimately passengers’ safety. A vehicle that is fully automated and cybersecured will be capable of controlling all aspects of driving without human intervention, regardless of whether its design includes controls for a human driver.
WISeKey and Cortus are combining their expertise to offer car makers and parts manufacturers unmatched security solutions in this area.
For decades, WISeKey has been a recognized provider of first-in-class hardware and software digital security solutions for cybercrime protection, people and object identification and authentication. WISeKey is both a Root of Trust (RoT) and a Certificate Authority (CA), uniquely positioning the Company to offer consistent security architectures from the digital key generation (VaultiTrust ™ and INeS services) to the connected object. WISeKey’s RoT is the only one based in a military bunker in the neutral country of Switzerland. WISeKey’s IoT security solution protects end-to-end data management due to its expertise and capabilities in the design and deployment of large cryptographic systems as well as VaultIC hardware security modules. The recent acquisition of AI specialist arago has expanded WISeKey’s expertise in digital security to Big Data computing.
Since its inception in 2005, Cortus has acquired indisputable world-wide notoriety as a designer of custom SoC, processors and hardware IPs. To date, more than 8 billion devices have been manufactured with Cortus’ IPs inside. The Company is particularly expert wherever low power consumption and high performances are required. As such, Cortus has soundtrack records in complex automotive systems design, transforming ideas to silicon. Cortus is also one of the dozen original platinum founding members of the RISC-V foundation (www.riscv.org) and a specialist in this new open standard processor architecture which is already very popular in the electronic marketplace.
“WISeKey’s proven experience within the automotive industry, is demonstrated with the adoption of our ISTANA platform by Daimler AG to validate the authenticity of vehicles’ parts, protect communication between vehicles’ processors and to provide over-the-air software updates,” said Carlos Moreira, Founder and CEO of WISeKey. “We have already developed a state-of-the-art automotive security infrastructure and this new strategic cooperation with Cortus will allow us to bring our security expertise deep into the automated vehicles ecosystem.”
Michael Chapman, Founder and CEO of Cortus, added: “The combination of WISeKey’s software and hardware digital security with our recognized expertise in designing efficient and reliable Systems-on-Chip is a perfect fit to address the new demanding cybersecurity requirements of the automotive industry. This marks a new and exciting era for both companies, both on a technology and on a business ground.”
To learn more about WISeKey’s cybersecurity solutions, visit WISeKey.com.
To learn more about Cortus’s hardware expertise, visit Cortus.com.
About WISeKey
WISeKey (NASDAQ: WKEY; SIX Swiss Exchange: WIHN) is a leading global cybersecurity company currently deploying large scale digital identity ecosystems for people and objects using Blockchain, AI and IoT respecting the Human as the Fulcrum of the Internet. WISeKey microprocessors secure the pervasive computing shaping today’s Internet of Everything. WISeKey IoT has an install base of over 1.5 billion microchips in virtually all IoT sectors (connected cars, smart cities, drones, agricultural sensors, anti-counterfeiting, smart lighting, servers, computers, mobile phones, crypto tokens etc.). WISeKey is uniquely positioned to be at the edge of IoT as our semiconductors produce a huge amount of Big Data that, when analyzed with Artificial Intelligence (AI), can help industrial applications to predict the failure of their equipment before it happens.
Our technology is Trusted by the OISTE/WISeKey’s Swiss based cryptographic Root of Trust (“RoT”) provides secure authentication and identification, in both physical and virtual environments, for the Internet of Things, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence. The WISeKey RoT serves as a common trust anchor to ensure the integrity of online transactions among objects and between objects and people. For more information, visit www.wisekey.com.
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About Cortus
Cortus is a leading semiconductor, embedded systems and IoT solutions company headquartered in Mauguio (near Montpellier, France) with offices in Meyreuil (France) and Moscow (Russia) as well as subsidiaries in Greece, Italy, Brazil and Taiwan.
Cortus provides a full range of IC design services based around their broad IP portfolio which includes processors, digital, analog, mixed-signal and RF IP; prototyping and verification solutions in many areas such as automotive, image processing, industrial controllers, satellites, M2M controllers, secure microcontrollers, smart metering, wireless communication, touch screen controllers, IoT devices, SIM cards, bank cards, e-passports, etc.
Cortus is a core contributing member and board member of the DASH7 Alliance.
Cortus is one of the dozen platinum founding members of the RISC-V Foundation and a strategic member of RISC-V International. For more information, visit www.cortus.com.
Press and investor contacts:
Cortus SAS
Company Contact: Christophe Genevois
Director of OperationsTel: +33 4.30.96.70.00 christophe.genevois@cortus.com
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AnySilicon, the leading marketplace for ASIC service providers, announced today that Cortus, a leader in custom SoC design services and IP core provider, has engaged with AnySilicon to promote its ASIC development services and IP cores. As part of the AnySilicon program, Cortus will gain access to a full range of online marketing services to showcase its offering, increase exposure and generate leads.
AnySilicon is an online marketplace linking ASIC service providers and companies in search of IC vendors. Covering ASIC design, IP core, verification, validation, packaging, testing, and turnkey service providers, the AnySilicon site allows companies to easily find ASIC vendors anywhere in the world with specific domain expertise that match their needs.
Cortus is pleased to be part of the AnySilicon marketplace in order to offer its ASIC Design services (analog, digital and mixed signal) using Cortus IPs for a wide range of applications from simple low power and efficient SoCs to very high-end SoCs (image processing, HPC, AI, etc). Over 8 billion devices have been manufactured containing Cortus processors and IP.
As one of the dozen platinum founding members of the RISC-V foundation, Cortus is the right partner to address any RISC-V project.
About Cortus
Cortus is a leading semiconductor, embedded systems and IoT solutions company headquartered in Mauguio (near Montpellier, France) with offices in Meyreuil (France) and Moscow (Russia) as well as subsidiaries in Greece, Italy, Brazil and Taiwan.
Cortus provides a full range of IC design services based around their broad IP portfolio which includes processors, digital, analog, mixed-signal and RF IP; prototyping and verification solutions in many areas such as automotive, image processing, industrial controllers, satellites, M2M controllers, secure microcontrollers, smart metering, wireless communication, touch screen controllers, IoT devices, SIM cards, bank cards, e-passports, etc.
Cortus is a core contributing member and board member of the DASH7 Alliance.
Cortus is one of the dozen platinum founding members of the RISC-V Foundation and a strategic member of RISC-V International.
Founded in 2011, AnySilicon is the best way to explore, find and contact semiconductor service providers and IP vendors online. AnySilicon is a unique ASICservices and IP marketplace that covers all domains starting from ASIC design to production and also an IP portal to help ASIC decision makers find the best partner with the right solution, best cost and shortest time to market. AnySilicon is part of HardwareBee.com network.
Cortus Announces the Opening of another New Design Centre in Meyreuil (France)
The 26th of October, Cortus SAS announces the opening of another design centre, in Meyreuil (France), adding to the design centres already established in Lecce (Italy) and Thessaloniki (Greece). This reinforces the design resources available to Cortus’ customers, not only in number but also in skills.
After successfully opening design centres in Italy (Lecce) and Greece (Thessaloniki) doubling Cortus’ design capacity, the new design centre in Meyreuil (near Aix-en-Province, France) is opening. The Corporate headquarters remain in Mauguio (near Montpellier, France).
Cortus continues to expand, looking to increase their headcount not only in Meyreuil but also Montpellier, Lecce and Thessaloniki. This is to further consolidate their turnkey ASIC design services, “from idea to silicon”.
Michael Chapman (CEO) said “I am delighted to have this new office in Meyreuil, this further builds up our skill base enabling us to do everything required for chip design: analog, mixed-signal, digital, embedded software, backend design, P&R etc for our customers.”
This increased manpower will build on and extend the experience of Cortus in processors including secure low power processors, compact pipelined processors all the way to very high performance full out of order 4-way issue RISC-V processors exploiting RVWMO as well as complementing the very extensive analog and mixed-signal design experience.
Cortus is also aiming to use the increased expertise to rapidly expand their IP catalog, enriching the current extensive offer in automotive, security, IoT and AI.
About Cortus SAS
Cortus is a leading semiconductor, embedded systems and IoT solutions company headquartered in Mauguio (near Montpellier, France).
Cortus provides a full range of IC design services based around their broad IP portfolio which includes digital, analog, mixed-signal and RF IP; prototyping and verification solutions in many areas such as automotive sensors, image processing, industrial controllers, M2M controllers, secure microcontrollers, smart meters, wireless communication, touch screen controllers, IoT devices, SIM cards, bank cards, and e-passports. Over 7 billion devices have been manufactured containing Cortus processors and IP.
Cortus is a core contributing member and board member of the DASH7 Alliance.
Cortus is a Platinum Founding Member of the RISC-V Foundation and strategic member of RISV-V International.
Again this year Cortus will be present at Embedded World 2020 – being held from the 25th to the 27th of February in Nürnberg. Come and visit us at our booth 3-634 in hall 3. Please contact us if you want to set up a meeting, but in any case we will be delighted to see you!
