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Elliptic Joins ChipEstimate.com IP Parnter Program

Broadest Security IP Portfolio Now Available for Chip Estimation

Elliptic Semiconductor and Giga Scale Integration Corporation announced today that Elliptic has joined the ChipEstimate.com IP Partner Program. As an intellectual property (IP) partner, IP developed by Elliptic is now available to the over 4,000 ASIC and system-on-chip (SoC) designers who access and download a no-cost version of the InCyte estimation system through the ChipEstimate.com web site.

InCyte is emerging as the de facto standard for chip estimation among semiconductor design houses, ASIC vendors, and design services firms. InCyte aggregates data from leading third-party foundries and IP vendors and puts it at designers' fingertips. As a result of this agreement, InCyte users now can estimate a design and quantify the effects of Elliptic Semiconductor's IP in terms of size, power, leakage, yield, cost, and other parameters.

Elliptic has the broadest security IP portfolio in the industry including semiconductor IP and embedded software. Its symmetric cryptographic cores such as AES and triple DES algorithms offer performance capability up to 50 Gbps. Key exchange functions are supported through single purpose or dual capability RSA and Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) cores as well as true and pseudo-random number generator functions.

"Elliptic Semiconductor is pleased to join the ChipEstimate.com IP Partner Program and to showcase our comprehensive portfolio of security IP to the rapidly growing InCyte user-base," said Al Hawtin, Vice President of Marketing for Elliptic Semiconductor. "The majority of Elliptic cores are configurable and as a result gate count and performance can change dramatically depending on the core options selected. Elliptic application engineering and our customers increasingly rely on a tool like InCyte to allow them to make intelligent trade-off in area, power and ultimately market positioning for their ASIC design," added Hawtin.

"Security IP is becoming important for an increasing number of our InCyte users," said Adam Traidman, Giga Scale IC President, "Having Elliptic Semiconductor join our ChipEstimate.com IP Partner Program addresses these designers' needs for incorporating this specialized IP into accurate estimations."

About Elliptic Semiconductor

Headquartered in Ottawa, Elliptic Semiconductor Inc. (http://www.ellipticsemi.com/) provides semiconductor intellectual property (IP) cores and software for secure communications ranging from low power to multi-gigabit per second implementations. Elliptic SIP cores enable system-on-chip designers to efficiently balance power, performance and silicon area in complex security-based systems. Demanding customers in markets such as implantable devices, wireless, storage, content distribution and high performance communications trust Elliptic IP cores.

About ChipEstimate.com

ChipEstimate.com is the web portal where IP, foundry, and economic data from across the semiconductor supply chain is aggregated to enable accurate chip estimations with the InCyte system. InCyte is a powerful specification estimation and analysis tool that reduces the risk, design time and cost of IC design, as it accurately estimates key IC specifications, including size, power, leakage, yield, and cost. Two versions of InCyte are offered and accessed through ChipEstimate.com. The first is for preliminary prototyping of a chip specification, where industry-average foundry and IP library models can be used. The even more accurate version allows chip estimation with different combinations of IP using IP and foundry technology data, and delivering results with up to 98% accuracy when compared to final silicon. The version using actual technology data also adds the ability to estimate production chip cost and includes wafer pricing data and package recommendations. IP vendors can join the ChipEstimate.com IP Partner Program and ensure that their IP is considered when chip planning takes place.

About Giga Scale IC

Giga Scale IC is a privately funded EDA company that serves the interests of the IC design community by enabling accurate estimation of both chip functionality and cost at the IC specification stage, before a chip design begins. The company develops and markets the InCyte chip estimation tool, into which it integrates IP models for the most accurate estimation of ultimate chip and package cost. The company offers a unified web location -- ChipEstimate.com -- through which it delivers streamlined access to information about IP options, and allows the design community to assess different IP in their own chip design context. Giga Scale IC partners with leading IP vendors and semiconductor manufacturers who share our mission of early and accurate assessment of IP for our mutual customers' ultimate design success.

The company is headquartered at 10050 North Wolfe Road, Suite SW1-266, Cupertino, Calif. 95014. Telephone: (408) 255-0444. Facsimile: (408) 255-0344. Email: info@gigaic.com. www.gigaic.com.

Giga Scale IC is a registered trademark and Giga Scale Integration Corporation and InCyte are trademarks of Giga Scale Integration Corporation. Giga Scale acknowledges trademarks or registered trademarks of other organizations for their respective products and services.

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