Elliptic inks European distribution deal to boost embedded security

OTTAWA, CANADA & 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.