White Paper: 7 Critical Questions to Ask When Selecting a Digital Audio Solution for SOC Design

The complexity of delivering a mobile audio IP solution to SOC designers causes design teams to ask many, many questions before choosing an audio core and associated codecs. That's a good thing. The selection process is complex, and the more information you have before making the decision, the better. Experience shows that design teams' questions about mobile audio solutions fall into seven broad categories. Check out this white paper.

Tensilica Signs RacyICs as New Authorized Design Center Partner for IC Design

RacyICs offers integrated circuit design, verification and implementation services.

“We were very impressed with Tensilica’s technology offering and the rapid rate of adoption of their products in Europe,” stated Jens-Uwe Schluessler, managing director, RacyICs. “By building an expert knowledge of Xtensa, in combination with our experience in power management, we can provide customers the optimal DSP or processor for their application.” See press release

Missed Tensilica's Israel Seminar "Customizable DSP IP Cores Made Simple"?

If you didn't get to our seminar in Isael, here's your chance. You can see the presentations on our web site.

Skyviia Chooses Tensilica's HiFi Audio DSP

"We selected the HiFi Audio DSP because it had the best combination of high performance, speed, and low power," stated Brian Sung, executive vice president  Skyviia. "And we were particularly impressed with the huge library of audio codecs already ported and optimized for this architecture."
See press release.

Paul McLellan Discusses How to Use Processors in the SOC Dataplane

Tensilica's DPUs are idea for the SOC Dataplane. What's a DPU? Read this article. The main advantages are:

• Flexibility. Changing the firmware changes the blocks function.
• Software-based development, with lower cost tools and ease of making last minute changes.
• Faster and more powerful system modeling, and more complete coverage
• Time-to-market
• Ability to make post-silicon changes to the firmware to tweak/improve algorithms
• DPU processor cores are pre-designed and pre-verified. Just add the firmware.

Read Tensilica's CTO Chris Rowen's New Blog on ROI and Running a Marathon

Entrepreneurship has a lot in common with running marathons. It may seem like a simplistic cliché, but the analogy works at multiple levels. Read this blog to find out why.

Tensilica's Seminar in Israel Nov. 17 "Customizable DSP IP Cores Made Simple"

Visit this seminar to find out about Tensilica’s wide range of DSP IP cores. Tensilica actually has more varieties of DSP IP cores than any other vendors, plus we offer you the ability to easily customize our base processor for the DSP functions you need for your application.

Our base processor is also an excellent controller, allowing you to do the control functions along with the DSP functions or even use it as a software tools compatible controller for your chip design.

From a basic 2-MAC DSP all the way up to the fastest DSP in the industry, our 128-MAC baseband processor for LTE Advanced, Tensilica can help you get the DSP performance you need in a highly efficient IP core. Sign up now!

Tensilica's Extensive Partner Ecosystem - Have You Looked at it Lately?

Take a good look at our list. Whether you're looking for audio enhancement SW from parters Dolby, DTS, QSound, AM3D, SRS, or Audyssey or a partner to help with your SOC design - we have so many different partners that can help you get your design done faster. Check out the list.

Tensilica's Korean Office Moved.

New address:
#201, DeungWoo Bldg.
127-11, Samsung-dong, Kangnam-gu,
Seoul, 135-875, Korea
Tel: 82-2-6007-2745
Fax: 82-2-6007-2746

Tensilica white paper: 10 Resons to Customize a Processor Core

There are plenty of really good, proven processor cores on the market today. But if you have more than simple control tasks, perhaps you've considered using a processor that you can customize. We'll give you 10 good reasons why you should consider customizing your core in your next SOC design.
Read the white paper.