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mimoOn Joins Roster of Tensilica's Rapidly Expanding Xtensions Program for Fast LTE/4G Development
Tensilica announced that its ConnX Baseband Engine comes with the broad ecosystem support of Tensilica's Xtensions(TM) Partner Network , including the newest Xtensions member, mimoOn. (see separate press release). Tensilica's Xtensions Partner Program brings its LTE (Long Term Evolution) baseband handset and base station design customers a robust infrastructure of top-tier partners in SOC (system-on-chip) design-critical areas such as LTE physical layer software solutions, system level modeling, real time operating systems emulation, and design services.
Tensilica has long realized that an open platform with a broad-reaching, comprehensive partner infrastructure is critical to help its customers' design teams get new products to market much more quickly, stated Jack Guedj, Tensilica's president and CEO. For our LTE/4G design customers, we offer one of the largest partnerships in the industry, providing a full range of services and software support.
Tensilica's leading partners for customers of its newest product, the ConnX Baseband Engine (BBE16) for LTE/4G wireless handsets and base stations include:
· mimoOn: the LTE leader in end-to-end software implementation and system design on SDR platforms. (see separate release)
· Blue Wonder Communications: Independent design house and licensor of LTE-IP and system solutions.
· Synopsys: system modeling support at transaction level with Synopsys Innovator and pin level modeling support with VCS.
· CoWare: System modeling of BBE16-based designs within Platform Architect.
· Carbon Design Systems: BBE16 transaction level models for SoC Designer.
· Mentor Graphics: pin-level models for Mentor Questa.
· Cadence Design: pin-level models for Incisive Enterprise Simulator.
· Express Logic: ThreadX real time operating system (RTOS) for BBE16.
· Micrium: uC/OS II for BBE16.
· Mentor Graphics Embedded Systems Division: Nucleus Plus for BBE16.
· EVE: ZeBu emulation platforms for hardware assisted verification.
· Tata Elxsi: Provider of 4G wireless solutions and Tensilica authorized design center.
· Wipro: World's largest provider of engineering design services.
· Hitachi I & C Engineering: Makers of LogicBench, a high capacity emulation platform for hardware/software co-design and co-verification.
· P-Product: Tensilica authorized software design center. P-Product has expert knowledge of Xtensa and LTE applications.