Support

The expert implementation of high assurance and secure computing systems using the Acalis Secure Processor is something that can be optimized a thousand different ways depending on many environmental variables. CPU Tech offers a variety of services to help meet your program goals, starting with general support contracts up to high level architectural and system level services. Described here is the general support services offered as a period support contract when developing systems with the Acalis CPU872.

Not Just ‘How To’, but ‘Best Way To’

Most embedded developers today expect easy-to-use development tools that operate seamlessly with their existing development environment. ‘Ease of Use’ and ‘Interoperability’ become the standards for successful products. In high assurance and secure systems development, there is an additional standard for development tools with is ‘Trusted and Secure’. This creates three competing standards for product success.

The Acalis Software Development Kit (SDK) is based on the industry standard Eclipse development environment, and comes with a strong set of development libraries to support secure computing and cryptographic projects. In addition, there are a variety of safeguards and procedures within the SDK and the Acalis Sentry Security Server to ensure the correct configuration of the secure processor to protect your system and its IP.

Thought the development environment is easy to use and visually menu driven, your development team may want to utilize the security and systems expertise of CPU Tech for general support services. Through on-site installation, you will gain not only an interoperable security development environment, but assurance that simple vulnerabilities are addressed from tool interaction. Through on-site training, you will understand not only how to set up secure processor firewalls, but how they work and how best to use them. And through on-site application support, you will not only enable security in your applications, but leverage CPU Tech’s up-to-the-minute knowledge of changes in secure computing standards and assessed vulnerabilities. This support includes: reviewing and debugging code, programming the Acalis Sentry, and applications benchmarking.