MEC1521 Overview
MEC152x Keyboard and Embedded Controller for Notebook PC Operating Conditions • Operating Voltages: 3.3 V and 1.8 V • Operating Temperature Range: -40 oC to 85 oC • Chip is designed to always operate in Lowest Power state during Normal Operation • Supports all 5 ACPI Power States for PC platforms • Supports 2 Chip-level Sleep Modes: Light Sleep and Heavy Sleep - Low Standby Current in Sleep Modes ARM® Cortex-M4 Embedded Processor • Programmable clock frequency up to 48 MHz • Fixed point processor • Single 4GByte Addressing Space • Nested Vectored Interrupt Controller (NVIC)
MEC1521 Key Features
- Boot ROM Secure Boot Loader
- Hardware Root of Trust (RoT) using Secure Boot and Immutable Code using ECDSA p384 and SHA-384
- Supports 2 Code Images in external SPI Flash (Primary and Fall back image)
- Supports Full EC firmware redundancy over Two Flash ponents
- Authenticates SPI Flash image before loading
- Support AES-256 Encrypted SPI Flash images
- Key Revocation
- Roll back protection up to 128 Revisions
- Hardware Accelerators
- Multi purpose AES Crypto Engine