PQC root of trust enables secure boot at power-on

The TS1800 Platform Root of Trust controller and TS50x secure boot controller from Microchip Technology are post-quantum cryptography-ready security devices for secure boot, firmware updates, attestation and certificate handling in data center, compute, defense, telecommunication and infrastructure platforms. The TS1800 integrates an Arm® Cortex®-M4F processor running at up to 192 MHz with hardware acceleration for NIST-standardized ML-DSA, LMS and ML-KEM algorithms plus USB 2.0 for faster firmware loading than I²C and SPI, while the TS50x provides a simpler secure boot path that verifies PQC and ECC P-384 signatures from SPI Flash. Available through the TrustFLEX platform, the controllers are designed as modular drop-in crypto-controllers to help system architects address CRA, CNSA 2.0 and NIST SP 800-193 requirements and migrate root-of-trust hardware to PQC with less redesign risk.