Elliptic Partners with Impinj to Develop New Security Chip

Source: Ottawa Business Journal
August 20, 2007 - Ottawa, Canada

Ottawa-based Elliptic Semiconductor Inc. has teamed up with a Seattle company to co-develop a chip which will help protect the security of copyrighted digital content.

Elliptic is partnering with Impinj Inc. to collaboratively develop a secure, standards-based system-on-chip (SoC) reference architecture for content protection applications such as digital rights management and conditional access.

The chip kit, which can be used as a sample design for system processor developers, integrates Elliptics embedded security module and Impinj's AEON multi-time programmable non-volatile memory core to fight against embedded system threats such as reverse chip engineering.

The product will enhance software security features and make it more difficult for software pirates to copy and share protected content.