TIDUE59A May 2018 – September 2020
As described in the previous section, secure sockets rely on many cryptographic algorithms. In the SimpleLink Wi-Fi CC3x20 devices, hardware accelerators are used to offload many of the intense arithmetic calculations involved in these cryptographic algorithms. Offloading the operations to the hardware accelerators helps keep the network processor available to carry out other tasks and speeds up TLS/SSL connection times.
To find out more about the hardware cryptography accelerator, see the CC3220 Technical Reference Manual. For more information on the supported cryptographic algorithms, see the CC3120, CC3220 Network Processor Programmer's Guide.