US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on Dec. 2 for "Circuit with hard macro protection and corresponding method" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,622, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Circuit with hard macro protection and corresponding method" was invented by Antonino Mondello (Messina, Italy), Michele Alessandro Carrano (Catania, Italy) and Riccardo Condorelli (Catania, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit implemented as a System-on-Chip (SOC) circuit comprising a microcontroller configured to drive one or more hard macros via a respective communication interface and a shielded bus. The microcontroller configured to transmit over the shielded bus random numbers to the hard macro. The microcontroller and the hard macr...