Tata Elxsi Becomes Tensilica's First Authorized Multimedia Processor Design Center

Tata Elxsi Ltd., a leading independent embedded design service company headquartered in Bangalore, India, with offices in major locations around the world, has become the first authorized design center for Tensilica’s multimedia customers. Tata Elxsi’s engineers have been fully trained on Tensilica’s HiFi 2 Audio Engine and Diamond Standard 38xVDO Video Engine family, and will be able to provide SOC design services including hardware and system software design for semiconductor and electronics manufacturers. Tata Elxsi has served as a design center for Tensilica’s Xtensa configurable processor family for over three years, and is already assisting global electronics companies with Tensilica-based multimedia designs.

“Tensilica’s Diamond Standard 38xVDO Video Engine family is the most capable processor core-based video solution on the market today, supplying full D1 resolution Main Profile H.264 performance,” stated Madhukar Dev, CEO, Tata Elxsi. “And the HiFi 2 Audio Engine is proven in designs that are shipping in huge volumes right now. Our turnkey SOC design capability and proven strengths in multimedia design will help Tensilica’s customers quickly integrate these powerful engines into their SOC designs, reducing product development time and costs. Our network of offices and strong presence in key geographies such as US and Europe and Asia, including Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, provides customers with easy access to world-class multimedia system and engineering expertise.”

Enuclia Picks Tensilica’s HiFi 2 Audio Engine for Flat Panel TV Chips

Enuclia Semiconductorselected the Xtensa LX processor with the HiFi 2 Audio Engine for its next-generation flat-panel TV integrated circuits. Enuclia is developing chips that produce the best possible picture on analog and digital televisions whether they are displaying standard or high-definition content.

“Our chips deliver outstanding picture quality, and now we can also deliver exceptional audio quality with Tensilica’s HiFi 2 Audio Engine,” stated Chip Burczak, CEO of Enuclia. “We were impressed with the HiFi 2 Audio Engine because of its small size and the ability to run codecs more efficiently than competing solutions. Tensilica has been a solid partner for Enuclia.”

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Stretch Selects Tensilica Xtensa LX Processor and HiFi 2 Audio Engine

Stretch licensed Tensilica’s Xtensa LX processor and HiFi 2 Audio Engine for use in their next-generation Software Configurable Processor. The Stretch S6000 family of processors is targeted towards audio/video applications and achieves unrivaled video processing performance using a dual issue, VLIW configuration of the Xtensa LX processor coupled with the second generation of Stretch’s Instruction Set Extension Fabric (ISEF).

Craig Lytle, Stretch President and CEO commented; “The ability to accelerate a target application for the Xtensa processor through the creation of Tensilica Instruction Extensions in real time, is key to achieving the breakthrough performance levels needed by today’s demanding audio/video processing applications. We are delighted to be extending our relationship with Tensilica into our new S6000 family and are tremendously excited about the performance levels we have been able to deliver in this platform.”

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