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2007

Micronas US Licenses DRM Solution from Elliptic
December 11, 2007, Ottawa, Canada - Elliptic Semiconductor, Inc., provider of semiconductor intellectual property cores and software for secure communications, and Micronas USA, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Micronas (Zurich, Switzerland, SWX Swiss Exchange: MASN), a leading supplier of innovative, application-specific IC system solutions for consumer electronics, today announced that Micronas USA has licensed the digital rights management (DRM) Elliptic security solution for use in its system-on-chips (SoCs) aimed at consumer electronics.    More »

Avnet ASIC Israel and Elliptic Partner to Offer Security Solutions to Israeli Companies
November 3, 2007 - Tel Aviv, Israel and Ottawa, Canada: Avnet ASIC Israel (AAI), an ASIC and COT design, backend, and turnkey manufacturing services provider, and Elliptic, a silicon IP core and software provider, have teamed up to bring Elliptic's portfolio of security solutions to market in Israel.   More »

MtekVision and Elliptic Extend Collaboration on Security Solutions for Mobile
September 27, 2007 - Ottawa, Canada and Seoul, Korea: Elliptic is pleased to announce that MtekVision and Elliptic have agreed to extend their collaboration on advanced security designs for mobile applications such as handset and media players. Based upon the market leading security solution embedded in current portfolio of MtekVision products, the security model is being significantly enhanced to address advanced features such as secure boot and embedded non-volatile memory keys for root-of-trust making the new generation of solutions capable of addressing m-commerce (mobile commerce), virtual private networking and digital rights management.   More »

Elliptic and Impinj Collaboration Bolsters System-on-Chip Digital Content Protection
August 20, 2007 - Ottawa, Canada and Seattle, Washington: Elliptic Semiconductor, Inc., and Impinj, Inc., today announced an agreement to collaboratively develop a secure, standards-based system-on-chip (SoC) reference architecture for content protection applications such as digital rights management (DRM) and conditional access.   More »

Jetway Security Micro Adopts Elliptic's Public Key Cryptography Hardware
July 12, 2007 - Shanghai, China and Ottawa, Canada: Jetway Security Micro, a leading security products company based in China, and Elliptic which was recently ranked as the fastest growing supplier of security semiconductor IP by Gartner Research, have signed a license agreement for Elliptic's asymmetric security engines.   More »

Ellipsys 2.0 Software Released by Elliptic - features Support for Elliptic Curve Cryptography & RSA Algorithms
May 7, 2007 - Ottawa, Canada: Security IP provider Elliptic today announced that it has completed the 2.0 release of its Ellipsys security software. This release upgrades the algorithms implemented to include a complete set of asymmetric functions such as Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) and RSA algorithms. Elliptic Curve Cryptography is being implemented by the U.S. Government as part of the Suite B standard and the cryptographic modernization program sponsored by the National Security Agency (NSA). ECC is also used in digital rights management and mobile handsets due to the high security it can offer at much smaller key sizes than the equivalent RSA algorithms.   More »

Elliptic Extends Industry Leadership in NIST Validation
April 17, 2007 - Ottawa, Canada: Security IP provider Elliptic today announced that its Ellipsys software has passed the Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Suite defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). This validation comes two months after the certification of Elliptic hardware cores and further extends Elliptic's industry leadership in NIST validation of its products.   More »

Elliptic Adds Two New Officers to Board of Directors
March 08, 2007 - Ottawa, Canada: Richard White, President and CEO of Elliptic is pleased to announce that Norm Kelly of Synopsys and Simon Morris of the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) have been appointed to the Board of Directors.   More »

Elliptic Responds to Customer Demand for Security Software with Ellipsys
Tuesday, February 27, 2007 - Ottawa, Canada: Security IP provider Elliptic today announced the launch of Ellipsys, a portfolio of software products targeted at designers implementing embedded system designs. Ellipsys will speed development cycles and enable security solutions that are a mix of hardware acceleration and software best suited to the end application.   More »

Elliptic Algorithms FIPS Certified
Wednesday, February 14, 2007 - Ottawa, Canada: Security semiconductor IP provider Elliptic today announced that it had achieved the broadest Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) validation among its competitors. The FIPS standard was developed by the United States National Institute of Science and Technology to ensure that products acquired by federal agencies meet stringent standards for cryptography.   More »

Beceem and Elliptic Collaborate on WiMAX security
Monday, January 29, 2007 - Santa Clara, California and Ottawa, Canada: Beceem Communications, the leading supplier of chipsets for the Mobile WiMAX terminal market and Elliptic, the leading supplier of security IP products, will extend their collaboration on WiMAX security.   More »

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