Elliptic Technologies Welcomes Representative ETesiAN To Broaden Support And Distribution Of Embedded Security Solutions For The European Market

Update: Synopsys Expands Security Solutions with Acquisition of Elliptic Technologies (June 29, 2015)

March 29, 2012 – Ottawa, Canada and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France: Elliptic Technologies, a leading supplier of security semiconductor IP and software, has partnered with ETesiAN Semiconductor a premier representative and distributor, to further strengthen Elliptic's support for highly integrated embedded security solutions in the mobile, networking, consumer electronics and home entertainment European markets.

"We are very proud to partner with a global leader in security IP and software solutions", said Jean-François Lambert, VP Sales of ETesiAN Semiconductor. "Elliptic Technologies offers complete, proven and top-of-the-line embedded security solutions that are ideally suited for our European customers. We are very excited to develop our IP distribution business with these products and a company of Elliptic's reputation and capabilities."

"We are very pleased to partner with ETesiAN to better serve the needs of end-to-end security for our current and future customers in Europe," said Vijay Dube, President and CEO of Elliptic. "ETesiAN's proven track record of providing excellent quality and support to their customer base in Europe will further strengthen Elliptic's ability to market and support its advanced security IP and software solutions in the strategic European market."

ETesiAN Semiconductor is a representative company serving as a one stop shop for the EMEA semiconductors industry by promoting and offering services and products to fabless and IDM companies for a successful, cost effective, reliable and high performance design and manufacturing. ETesiAN's core capability to understand and support advanced technologies is very advantageous for business development of IP solutions. ETesiAN strives to support and react quickly to customer needs and this will help increase the success of Elliptic security solutions in the European markets.

Elliptic is widely recognized as a top security IP supplier that provides highly tuned, customer specific security solutions built on a combination of software and semiconductor hardware engines. Elliptic offers the industry's broadest portfolio of security engines ranging from random number generators, a wide variety of cryptographic cores such as AES, Snow 3G, Kasumi, ZUC and SHA, RSA and ECC public key accelerators, to protocol processors for IPsec, TLS/SSL/DTLS and MACsec. Software solutions include highly integrated content protection solutions such as DTCP-IP and HDCP 2.1 built for trusted execution environments that integrate seamlessly with technologies like ARM TrustZone.

Elliptic's products help SoC manufacturers, OEMs, network operators and content providers secure products in a wide range of markets, from wireless, networking, home entertainment, to smart grid, automotive, card payment and medical. They are perfectly suited to the requirements of European companies and Elliptic has successfully licensed cores to several established and startup customers in Europe.

About Elliptic Technologies

Elliptic Technologies is a leading provider of embedded security Intellectual Property including hardware cores and software to SoC manufacturers, OEMs, network operators and content providers. Elliptic's highly integrated IP solutions help to secure products in markets such as wireless, networking, home entertainment, digital media and platform security.

Elliptic's security IP cores enable designers to efficiently balance power, performance and silicon area. Elliptic is leading the world in DRM and content protection solutions for the home entertainment and digital media markets, including its DTCP-IP and HDCP SDKs for trusted execution environments. The company's Platform Security solutions allow customers to implement secure, trusted platforms and networks, including secure boot, secure networking, product anti-cloning and anti-counterfeiting.

Ranked by Gartner as the fastest growing provider of security semiconductor IP for the last four years, Elliptic security solutions are designed into some of the world's most popular products shipping in millions of units. The company, founded in 2001, maintains headquarters in Ottawa, Canada, and has a worldwide customer base and sales channels. For more information please visit www.elliptictech.com.

About ETesiAN Semiconductor

ETasiAN Semiconductor is a rep company with a mission to serve as a one stop shop for the EMEA semiconductor industry by promoting and offering all services and products needed by the fabless and IDM companies for successful design and reliable manufacturing. ETesiAN's offering includes advanced foundry manufacturing services, turnkey services, IPs, design tools and design services. ETesiAN's team is composed of sales executives coming from the foundry, VCs, Design and EDA background, with extensive networking to the semiconductor industry in Europe and Israel. Having its offices in France and Israel and partnerships in Germany and the UK, ETesiAN has direct and local access to the majority of the fabless, IDM and design service companies in the EMEA semiconductor market. ETesiAN's web site is located at http://www.etesiansemi.com.