The Cyclone V, a cost-effective System-on-Chip (SoC) FPGA from Altera, combines a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor (Hard Processor System, HPS) with a range of FPGA fabric configurations, tailored to specific family SKUs.
It can be used with a variety of Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS), including VxWorks, FreeRTOS, and Azure RTOS, as well as embedded Linux distributions like Yocto and Buildroot. wolfSSL is optimized for these platforms, offering secure communication with TLS v1.3 and DTLS v1.3, secure boot capabilities with wolfBoot, and FIPS 140-3 cryptography. It can fully replace cryptographic operations in embedded Linux, providing a comprehensive FIPS-approved solution for both user space and kernel space.
Additionally, wolfSSL can provide a Hardware Security Module (HSM) solution with wolfHSM on the Cyclone V. By leveraging the Nios II or RISC-V-based Nios V soft-core processor in the FPGA fabric, wolfHSM can be used to provide a dedicated fabric based security module for the Cyclone V.
Cyclone V Cortex-A9 @ 800 MHz on Yocto Linux Scarthgap Benchmarks
Benchmarks are collected from our public benchmarking tool and compiled with -O2 optimization for both the benchmarking app and wolfSSL library. C benchmarking results are collected using a standard ./configure build of the wolfSSL library, and ARM Assembly results benchmarks are collected with a ./configure –enable-armasm build of the library.
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