T&VS and ESS announce strategic partnership to provide a complete security solution

Bristol, UK -- March 16,2015 –T&VS, a leader in software test and hardware verification solutions, and Embedded Security Solutions, a specialist embedded security consultancy, today announced a strategic partnership to provide asureSECURE a complete security solution from hardened SoC to software applications.

For hardware, T&VS brings to the partnership its proven expertise in verification and a track record of having successfully executed complex end-to-end verification projects for some of the leading semiconductor chip providers across the globe. ESS brings to the partnership many years of embedded security experience, firmly grounded in the semiconductor industry and the development of complex SoC devices. ESS offers a world-class security architecture capability providing specifications at SoC and hardware IP level as well as product review services. TVS also brings expertise in both software testing and application security where TVS helps clients to develop secure applications and then test them to demonstrate they are secure.

The T&VS and ESS partnership is aimed at addressing the needs of semiconductor chip vendors and product manufacturers who are today facing increasing demands to adopt a stronger system wide security approach and need proven and reliable solutions capable of passing a variety of certifications. The joint expertise will help chip vendors and product manufacturers achieve first-pass silicon success reduce time-to-market, address the requirements of emerging market segments like IoT (Internet of Things) and systematically tackle the complexities introduced by increasingly demanding security requirements.

“T&VS and ESS have proven capabilities to execute SoC verification and security implementation turnkey projects respectively. The T&VS-ESS combinationleverages this expertise to provide a full SoC implementation solution, The TVS software test and security expertise allows the partnership to offer full product security.” stated Mike Bartley, T&VS Founder and CEO.

Paul Elliott, Founder and Director, ESS Bristol said, “By offering a comprehensive security specification, design, reviewand testing service, the T&VS-ESS partnership helps chip vendorsand product manufacturers enter markets with security requirements that have a steep learning curve andavoid mistakes in the security domain that are much more costly to remedy.”

Further information on T&VS’s products and services is available at www.testandverification.com.

About T&VS
T&VS (Test and Verification Solutions Ltd) provides services and products to organisations developing complex products in the microelectronics and embedded systems industries. Such organisations use T&VS to verify their hardware and software products, employ industry best practice and manage peaks in development and testing programmes. T&VS’ embedded software testing services includes onsite/offshore testing support including assistance with safety certification and security testing. T&VS’ hardware verification services include onsite/offshore verification support and training in advanced verification methodologies. T&VS also offers Verification IPs and its own Verification (EDA) signoff tool.

About ESS
ESS (Embedded Security Solutions Ltd) is a consultancy business drawing on over 40 years of collective experience in the semiconductor industry defining leading edge deep sub-micron system-on-chip (SoC) architectures. ESS specializes in securing embedded platforms for consumer products.

ESS provides services to organizations developing complex SoC based systems that require embedded hardware security and offers a comprehensivesecurity requirements analysis and architectural specification service. Such organisations use ESS to bring expertise that is often not available in house, speed development and avoid costly mistakes. In addition ESS offers a security evaluation serviceand can perform a comprehensive review of your product against a target threat model. ESS will work closely with your development teams to support implementation and ensure first time silicon success, ESS services include onsite/offshore support.