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Case study: accelerated chip design for drones and cameras with Arm DesignStart

Chris Shore
Chris Shore
May 13, 2019

At some point in almost every action movie or TV show, an evil villain hacks into a camera, surveillance system or drone to wreak mayhem on unwitting victims. That’s exactly the kind of activity that NeoWine, a security integrated circuit (IC) company based in Korea, is out to stop happening in real life.

Already, NeoWine has shipped more than 130 million of its secure chipsets across China, Taiwan, and Korea, specializing in the video security market. Its latest product, the DALPU-4, is a specially designed ASIC capable of both controlling drones and managing onboard camera functions. The DALPU-4 relies on Arm technology for both high-performance function and small chip size.

“Drones challenge every design limitation for both processing power and size,” explains Hyo Seung, CEO of NeoWine. “Only Arm offered the performance, size, and power efficiency we needed for the functionality, security, and encryption speeds we want to offer to drone manufacturers. Even better, we could get started on designing and prototyping our Arm based solution for no upfront fee through Arm DesignStart.”

Powerful data encryption

The market for drones has exploded over the last few years, with new use cases constantly emerging and innovative designs permeating the market. However, like any other Internet of Things (IoT) device, drones also are vulnerable to hackers and security breaches, including data theft and loss of control.

The NeoWine ASIC provides a key exchange with ECDH 256, AES 256 encryption, on both video and control channels at the same time. AES encryption speed is 30 Mbps and control is 100 kbps.

“The Arm DesignStart program gave us the advantage we needed to get our design to market quickly. Using Arm solutions meant we could access a wealth of technical documentation and compatible compiler code that was readily available,” Hyo Seung Lee says. “Security in our market is a little different than others, such as electronic payment cards, but Arm helped us apply payment-level security with low-power, high-performance CPU technology to our ASIC.”

Scalable processor technology

As the demand for high-quality video from low-cost, low-powered drones continues to grow, NeoWine plans to expand its product line and believes the scalability and the flexibility of the Arm Cortex-M0 and Cortex-M3 processors allow the company to innovate more quickly.

Arm’s upward-compatible processors means software code can be reused, opening the door for more features and advanced capability in future.

“When we tell our customers that the ASIC is based on Arm architecture, they know straight away that they’re getting a high-quality chipset that will deliver the performance and security they need,” Hyo Seung Lee concludes. “Our company slogan is ‘For the more secure world,’ and Arm is the perfect partner to help us deliver on that.”

Learn more about NeoWine and get started on your Arm-based custom SoC with faster, lower costs through Arm DesignStart today.

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