Tiempo Demonstrates Breakthrough Performance for Contactless Secured Applications at Cartes 2009, Improving Processing Speed by a Factor 6

GRENOBLE, France--(Business Wire)--
Tiempo is demonstrating at the "Cartes 2009" event how its asynchronous design
technology can dramatically improve processing speed for contactless
applications with, as an illustration, a live demo of a secured PayPass
transaction in which processing speed on the card is six times faster than
industry implementations, showing a complete transaction in less than 60 ms.

"Tiempo asynchronous - or clockless -technology allows designing ICs which are
ultra-low power and high performance," says Marc Renaudin, CTO at Tiempo. "For
contactless applications, we typically deliver 6 times more processing power
than industry state-of-the-art clocked circuits. Additionally, our delay
insensitive technology allows us to take full advantage of the remote power
source by automatically adapting the circuit speed to the available energy."

Using Tiempo innovative design flow, such highly performing hardware can be
described with a standard hardware description language, synthesized with ACC,
Tiempo unique asynchronous circuit compiler, then verified and placed-and-routed
with standard simulation and back-end tools.

"Asynchronous design is the next breakthrough for the ever growing contactless
applications," says Serge Maginot, CEO of Tiempo. "We are filling the gap
between high processing applications such as banking or ePassport and fast
applications such as ticketing. We offer a technology which can deliver
performances never seen on traditional clocked circuits for smart cards, while
increasing the security level".

Furthermore, Tiempo asynchronous technology significantly increases the level of
security of circuits, as concluded by Brightsight, a well-established and
independent lab. The result of a preliminary study states that "Tiempo
asynchronous technology is very likely to increase resistance against power
analysis and perturbation attacks".

A live PayPass demonstration as well as performance outlook for other
applications is demonstrated on Tiempo booth (#3D095) at Cartes 2009, November
17-19, 2009, Paris, France.

Tiempo develops and commercializes Core IPs for the design of innovative
integrated circuits that are ultra-low power, ultra-low noise, ultra-low
voltage, robust versus PVT variations and highly secured. Tiempo IP portfolio
includes ultra-low power and secured asynchronous cores of microcontrollers,
microprocessors and crypto-processors, and is supported by an automated
synthesis tool using standard input language. Targeted core applications are
chips for low-power embedded electronics and secured devices.

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Tiempo
Serge Maginot, +33 4 76 61 10 00
info@tiempo-ic.com
www.tiempo-ic.com

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