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Agreement to distribute security modules

Atmel and the Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a business region of Avnet, have announced their newly signed distribution agreement for Atmel's full line of VaultIC security modules. Avnet will provide secure logistics for these products to customers in the Americas. Atmel provides secure microcontrollers for smart card applications for telecomm, banking and government markets. Atmel's products have high security certifications including Common Criteria EAL4+/EAL5+, FIPS 140-2, ZKA and EMVCo. The VaultIC products can easily bring high security functions to applications such as smart metering, USB token, Femtocells, IP protection, gaming platforms or access controls. The VaultIC features powerful and hardware-based cryptographic algorithms such as RSA, TDES, AES or Elliptic Curves (ECC), together with tamper-proof and tamper-evident secure data storage. The wide choice of interfaces provided by the VaultIC (USB, I²C compatible/TWI, SPI, GPIOs, ISO7816 for smartcard applications) makes the physical integration in any existing system fast and easy. The security modules allow customers to protect their intellectual property using high strength encryption technology without complex program development.