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9th September 2008
Tensilica’s Xtensa Processor Core Adopted by NEC For Mobile Phone SOC

Tensilica has announced that NEC Corporation of Tokyo, Japan, has licensed the Xtensa LX2 customizable processor core for NEC’s Mobile Phone SOC (system-on-chip). NEC will develop Mobile Phone SOCs using several different configurations of the Xtensa processor.

Micros
21st August 2008
Tensilica Confirms New Intel Media Processor for Consumer Electronics Devices Uses Company’s HiFi 2 Audio Processor

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco yesterday, Tensilica announced that the new Intel Media Processor CE 3100 (formerly codenamed “Canmore”) for Internet-connected CE devices includes Tensilica’s HiFi 2 audio processor. Tensilica’s HiFi 2 processor is specifically optimized to efficiently run over 50 audio software packages, including AACPlus, MP3, SRS TruSurround HD, WMA, and G.7xx Voice codecs, along with the complete suites o...

Analysis
16th July 2008
Tensilica Appoints Jack Guedj as New President and CEO

Expanding its executive team with the talented leadership required to take the company into its next phase of growth, Tensilica, Inc. today announced it has appointed Dr. Jack Guedj, Ph.D. as the company’s president and chief executive officer (CEO). Guedj has extensive experience as a senior executive with a variety of fast-growing start-ups and high-profile semiconductor companies focused in high-performance communications and multimedia. He ...

Analysis
8th July 2008
Triductor Licenses Tensilica Diamond Standard 212GP Processor Core

Tensilica has announced that Triductor Technology, of Santa Clara, CA, and Suzhou, China, has signed a second license for the Diamond Standard 212GP general-purpose processor core and has completed a second design tape out. Triductor has used the Diamond 212GP processor as the system controller for VDSL2 design for both the customer premise (CPE) and central office (CO) designs. The Diamond 212GP is an area-efficient, low-power, fully synthesizab...

Design
2nd June 2008
Tensilica Announces Open Source Linux Emphasis, Broadens Processor Core Ecosystem with New Linux PartnersTimeSys and Embedded Alley

Tensilica has announced that Embedded Linux 2.6 and GNU tools based on GCC 4.2, both available at www.linux-xtensa.org, is now backed by two well-respected Linux industry partners. Embedded Alley Solutions, Inc. of San Jose, CA, provides Platform Optimized Linux Solutions, Linux consulting services and training. Timesys, of Pittsburgh, PA, is providing subscriptions to LinuxLink for Tensilica customers to access embedded software, tools, docume...

Design
31st March 2008
Tensilica's GUI Cuts Chip Energy Consumption

Tensilica has announced that it has added a new graphical user interface (GUI) to its popular Xenergy estimator, a unique energy estimator for both Xtensa configurable processors and Diamond Standard processors. This first of its kind tool allows software developers to evaluate trade-offs, so their software can be optimized for power, and lets hardware designers optimize the design of Xtensa configurable processors for total energy consumption.

Analysis
13th March 2008
Tensilica Supports MPEG-4 AAC-LC and aacPlus Multi-Channel Decoders for 7.1 Surround Sound

Tensilica has become the first processor IP company to announce the approval and availability of MPEG-4 AAC-LC, aacPlus v1, and v2 multichannel decoder implementations from Dolby Laboratories, Inc. These three multichannel decoders provide up to 7.1-channel surround sound for home entertainment devices. They are available now for the Tensilica HiFi 2 Audio Engine, the most popular audio architecture for system-on-chip (SOC) design.

Analysis
11th March 2008
Tensilica's Xtensa Processors Enable Next-Generation Mobile HD Radio Technology

Tensilica has announced that its Xtensa configurable processor has been designed into the baseband processor in Samsung EM's HD Radio chipset. The baseband processor, based on a design by iBiquity Digital Corporation, the developer and licensor of HD Radio technology and a Tensilica processor reseller, integrates the memory, SDRAM and flash in a system-in-package measuring just 9 x 9 mm.

Analysis
4th March 2008
WiLinx Licenses Tensilica's Xtensa LX2 Processor Core for Low-Power UWB Chips

Tensilica has announced that WiLinx, a Los Angeles based fabless semiconductor company, has licensed the Xtensa LX2 configurable processor for its low-power True-UWB single chip CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor) solutions. WiLinx True-UWB product offers 7 GHz (from 3 to 10 GHz) of air spectrum as the key enabler for worldwide adoption of UWB into the cellular phone handsets, PCs, PC peripherals and consumer electronics devices.

Analysis
3rd March 2008
Tensilica and NuFront to Show T-MMB Mobile TV Solution at China's IIC 2008 Shows

Tensilica and NuFront have announced that the two companies will jointly exhibit at the IIC-China 2008 exhibitions March 3-4, 2008, in Shenzhen (booth: 2K41) and March 10-11, 2008, in Shanghai (booth: 4S41). Using Tensilica's configurable processor technology, NuFront developed, and has gone into mass production with, a T-MMB (terrestrial-mobile multimedia broadcasting) mobile baseband DSP (digital signal processor). By watching mobile TV on a T-...

Analysis
28th February 2008
Tensilica Configurable Processors Used in Stanford Smart Memories Project

Tensilica Inc. has announced that Stanford University's Smart Memories Project used Tensilica's Xtensa LX2 configurable processor to develop a multiprocessor computing infrastructure for next generation applications. The Stanford Smart Memories Project has developed a prototype system-on-chip (SOC) design that provides the user the ability to program both the processor and the memory system of a chip-level multiprocessor. Using Tensilica allowed ...

Design
22nd January 2008
Tensilica Adds Support for High-Speed, Hardware-Based Processor Simulations Using Avnet's Xilinx Virtex-4 LX200 Development Kit

Tensilica has announced it has added support for Avnet's Xilinx Virtex-4 LX200 Development Kit for high-speed hardware-based simulations of its Xtensa configurable and Diamond Standard processor families. Now software developers can choose between the cost-effective Avnet LX60 board and the high-capacity Avnet LX200 board to speed their software design, debug and program optimization processes.

Analysis
9th January 2008
Upzide Expands Business Relationship with Tensilica, Developing Multi-Core VDSL2 Modem Chipset

UpZide Labs AB and Tensilica, Inc., today announced an expanded business relationship under which UpZide will take their reference Vectorized VDSL2 (second generation Very high-speed Digital Subscriber Line) design to market in a chipset using over 50 Xtensa LX2 configurable processors. Vectorized VDSL2 technology is seen as key to delivering VoIP (voice over Internet protocol), VoD (video on demand) and HDTV (high-definition television) simultan...

Analysis
7th January 2008
Innovative Tensilica-Based Products on Display at CES 2008

Tensilica, Inc. today announced that over 30 companies that either license Tensilica’s popular processor cores or use merchant market semiconductor products that include Tensilica’s cores will be displaying products at this week’s International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). These Tensilica-enabled products include some of the most advanced, innovative consumer devices, including LCD TVs, cellular phones, WiFi-enabled notebook computers, ...

Analysis
18th December 2007
Tensilica Adds to Xtensa HiFi 2 Audio

Tensilica has announced that it has added the Dolby Digital Consumer Encoder (DDCE) and Dolby Digital Compatible Output (DDCO) 5.1-channel encoders to its audio codec library for the Xtensa HiFi 2 Audio Engine, one of the most popular commercial audio cores for system-on-chip (SOC) designs. These encoders enable manufacturers to design consumer devices, including Blu-ray Disc players, HD DVD players, portable devices and camcorders, which support...

Design
10th December 2007
Tensilica Offers Integrated Real-Time Trace Support to Xtensa Configurable and Diamond Standard Processor Cores

Tensilica has announced that it has added an optional full-speed, non-intrusive instruction trace capability to all of its Diamond Standard and Xtensa configurable processor cores. Tensilica's TRAX-PC processor trace capture macrocell is Nexus 5001 compatible and ideal for debugging complex, challenging real-time applications such as engine and motor control. Software control and use of the on-chip TRAX hardware is fully integrated into Tensilica...

Analysis
28th November 2007
DS2 Licenses Tensilica’s Xtensa Processor for 200 Mbps Powerline Chipset

Tensilica has announced that Design of Systems on Silicon S.A. (DS2) has licensed Tensilica’s Xtensa configurable processor to use as a controller in a 200 Mbps powerline chipset. This chipset enables broadband and networking in homes over power lines, coaxial cable and telephone wire.

Micros
26th November 2007
Partnership Delivers Free Diamond Processors on Free Mask Charge ASICs

Tensilica and eASIC Corporation have announced a partnership to remove the cost barriers for developing custom embedded System-on-a-Chip. (SoCs). Through this partnership eASIC now provides free access to Tensilica’s Diamond Standard microprocessor and DSP cores for its free mask charge, no-minimum order ASICs. This unique combination enables embedded system designers to develop Diamond processor-based SoCs for applications in any production vo...

Design
20th November 2007
CoWare and Tensilica Integrate Diamond Standard 106Micro with CoWare ESL 2.0 Technology

CoWare, Inc., and Tensilica, Inc., today announced the integration of Tensilica’s Diamond Standard 106Micro, the smallest licensable 32-bit processor core, with CoWare Platform Architect. The integration provides designers with the first and most productive ESL 2.0 solution for platform architecture design, platform verification, and software development using Tensilica’s processor core with the smallest area, lowest power, and highest perfor...

Analysis
13th November 2007
DTS Audio Technologies for Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD

Tensilica ®, Inc. and DTS, Inc. today announced that the two companies have entered into an agreement for Tensilica to provide leading-edge DTS technologies for both Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD and other high end consumer audio applications with Tensilica’s HiFi 2 Audio Engine, the most popular commercial audio DSP core for system-on-chip (SOC) designs.

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