Elliptic Semiconductor Welcomes Ivis Corporation to its Partners’ Program

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

January 27, 2004 – Ottawa, Canada. Elliptic Semiconductor, a leading company in broadband wireless semiconductor products, is pleased to announce the addition of Ivis Corporation as a member of its Elliptic Alliance Partner Program (EAPP). As a member of the EAPP program, Ivis will be able to offer their clients leading edge security and network protocol processor solutions in Japan.

Elliptic will make available, through EAPP, its entire family of virtual components, which encompass ultra-low power TCP/IP protocol processors with integrated security including secure socket layer (SSL) and Internet Security protocol (IPSec) support. In addition, the complete family of highly optimized ciphers, hashing engines, complete SSL record processing engines and an IPSec security engine are part of the portfolio.

Ivis Corporation is a leading provider of consulting and engineering services to its Japanese customers. “In Japan, our customers are always seeking leading edge technological solutions to enhance the performance of their products. With the growing mobile market, the need for security and network protocol processing is paramount while addressing high performance and low power being critical. Elliptic’s security and network hardware accelerators address these market needs. This partnership opens a new era of addressing market demand with affordable and proven semiconductor IP ” said Kazuhide Sai, President & CEO of Ivis Corporation.

”Ivis is a welcomed member of, and a valued-addition to our EAPP program. With Ivis we broaden our reach in Japan, and together Ivis and Elliptic will ensure customer requirements are understood and executed to the exceptionally high standards required by Japanese customers,” said Gord Harling, President and CEO of Elliptic Semiconductor. Gord continues “The surge in membership enrollment to Elliptic’s EAPP program is an endorsement of Elliptic’s technology and vision.”

About Elliptic Semiconductor

Headquartered in Ottawa, Elliptic Semiconductor Inc (www.ellipticsemi.com) provides semiconductor products for low power designs of packet offload and security processing for wireless and handheld devices. The products offload the host processor and greatly reduce the power required for data transmission in 802.11, Ultra-wideband, Bluetooth, W-CDMA, CDMA-2000, EDGE and many other wireless data services. Working in the most advanced semiconductor processes, Elliptic Semiconductor will become the leading player in the emerging semiconductor intellectual property market.

About Ivis Corporation

IVIS Co., Ltd (IVIS) was founded in 1995. IVIS is a leading Japanese distributor specializing in SoC, embedded system design, EDA tools, and IP (Intellectual Property). IVIS focuses on the SoC (system on chip) business making use of our actual result and experience in Japan thereby helping customers to reduce time-to-market and development cost.