Conditional Access Devices
Ultra-secure environment for conditional access
Our CA devices are a family of products targeted to enable highly secure means to introduce Conditional Access into STBs and iDTV. The rapid growth of iDTV sales indicates that Common Interface is a have.
- Common Interface CAM: advanced PCMCIA CAM, enabling the maximum level of flexibility and security.
- K1 chipset: best in class security chipset for CA applications.
- CAMwatch: Common Interface controller with support of multiple transport streams.
Common Interface CAM
Conditional Access Modules with a PCMCIA interface to plug them into CI STBs and iDTV incorporating CI slots.
Key Features:
- Following DVB standards.
- Base done K1 security chip by SIDSA
- Two program descrambling functionality. Also available a professional CAM: supporting several simultaneous services descrambling.
- HDTV over MPEG-2 TS descrambling support.
- H264/AVC over MPEG-2 TS descrambling support.
- Multichannel audio support.
- Pop-up messages supported.
- MHP CA - Pipeline for interactive applications.
- Multilanguage.
- Secure HW evironment
- Secure and stable OTA (Over The Air).
- Tamper proof embedded security to store private CA information.
- Not depending on specific decoder vendor.
- No security breaches.
- Single or Dual Smart Card Interface.
- When working with KeyFly 2.0Xtreme no need for smart-card.
- Multiple CA vendor simultaneous support (depending on licensing scheme).
- Plug & Play.
- Low power consumption.
Devices: 
SIDSA CAM products, commercialised under Alhena brand, combine all these features to provide a powerful, reliable and easy-to-use product to broadcasters and end-users.
Alhena CAM: is especially suitable for horizantal markets, ensuring interoperatibility between any iDTV and Set-Top-Box, hence providing end-users with an easy-to-use plug&watch approach. Able to descramble two services simultaneously, enables picture in Picture and PVR features.
Alhena Professional CAM: targeted at broadcast operation centers, offers the most solid, reliable and powerful professional CAM able to descramble a complete transport stream within a single module providing a compact and cost-effective solution.
In our roadmap:
► Alhena triple CAM
⇒ CAM incorporating KeyFly 2.0Xtreme plus support of two traditional CA systems using a double smart-card reader.
⇒ Support of CI+/CI v2.0
► interactive CAM ⇒ CAM supporting enhanced MHEG-5 interactivity and user interface.
K1 chipset 
The K1 chipset allows similar functionality than the CAM in a single chip, providing an extremely cost-effective and ultra-secure solution independent of decoder manufacturer and without any security breaches. It supports encrypted-TS input and clear-TS output without any interaction with the external world (in roadmap the K2 chipset supporting CI+/CI v2.0 for extra protection between K2 and decoder - no clear TS output).
A smart-card less CA system can run completely inside the K1 chipset without any possible hacking attack (the K1 chip includes all kind of security measurements and it is tamper-proof), including card-sharing.
- Internal specific cryptographic processors.
- Internal Flash: 256Kbytes with secure storage area and unique ID.
- Internal RAM: 144Kbytes.
- Optional external Flash and RAM (customizable size).
- Ethernet interface.
- Serial and parallel transport stream support.
- Low power (3,3 and 1.8 volt)
Please ask our sales team about the K1 Development Kit
CAMwatch
CAMwatch is a low cost assistant for Common Interface, Cable card and in general for any application where Transport Streams are multiplexed and steered between different sources and destinations.
- Common Interface Set-Top-Boxes.
- Multiple input (e.g. Satellite, Terrestrial, Cable...) Set-Top-Boxes.
- PVR.
- PiP (Picture in Picture).
SIDSA Strategy
SIDSA is marketing the CA devices for using them together with KeyFly 2.0Xtreme system (smart-card less) and with third party CAs (both smart-card based and smart-card less).
