The PCC-ISES is a general purpose high-speed cryptographic accelerator with:

• Very fast cryptographic acceleration of large number modular exponentiation, symmetric key and hashing functions
• Features an ARM7TDMI embedded microprocessor and battery-backed secure 128KB storage, providing a secure system on a single chip.
• Targets very high performance and secure server applications such as as secure e-commerce, Secure Socket Layer (SSL), Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), secure e-transactions (SET), VPN Servers (IPSec), Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA), Diffie Hellman key exchange and Elliptic Curves (ECC).

1. Very fast cryptographic acceleration for large number exponentiation
2. Hardware acceleration for various symmetric key and hashing functions
3. Embedded microprocessor for enhanced flexibility
4. Embedded large battery backed secure RAM
5. Embedded Hardware Random Number generator
6. Very low power consumption
7. Fast erasure of secure information upon tamper pin activation