New GUI Helps Cut Chip Energy Consumption

Tensilica 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. For more information, see http://www.tensilica.com/news_events/pr_2008_03_31.htm