Microsemi Corporation , a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, and Intrinsic-ID , a leading provider of cyber physical security solutions based on physically unclonable functions , today announced their joint development of a secure boot solution for mission critical electronic systems. The new offering provides users unprecedented control and security over the provisioning at each start-up of sensitive boot code into programmable components such as field programmable gate arrays and system-on-chips from vendors like Altera and Xilinx.