CircuitSutra Joins Tensilica Partner Program

CircuitSutra offers comprehensive SystemC services including TLM modeling of complete SOC (System on Chip) and individual IP (intellectual property) blocks at various abstraction levels, and in the creation of virtual platforms for embedded software development and architectural exploration. For more information, see http://www.tensilica.com/news_events/pr_2008_08_20_circuit.htm

Timesys Announces Embedded Linux for Tensilica Diamond Standard 232L Processor Core

LinuxLink software subscriptions for Tensilica’s Diamond Standard 232L processor cores are now available. The LinuxLink subscription provides developers with a complete embedded Linux platform that has been integrated and tested for Tensilica’s 232L Diamond Standard processor core, including a 2.6.25 kernel, 232L specific device drivers, GNU uClibc based toolchain, and hundreds of pre-built packages. When combined with Timesys’ TimeStorm development environment and ongoing support, LinuxLink subscribers will be able to quickly customize and test an embedded Linux platform for Tensilica’s 232L that has been optimized for their application. More information is at http://www.tensilica.com/news_events/pr_2008_08_15.htm

Tensilica Hires Jerry Ardizzone as Vice President Worldwide Sales

Jerry Ardizzone has joined the company as vice president of worldwide sales. He brings over 24 years of semiconductor and semiconductor IP (intellectual property) sales management experience. Read more at http://www.tensilica.com/news_events/pr_2008_08_11.htm

Tensilica Appoints Semiconductor Industry Veteran 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 succeeds Dr. Chris Rowen, founder of Tensilica, who is now the company’s chief technology officer (CTO), driving advanced processor technology and applications in close partnership with Tensilica’s strategic customers. Rowen will continue to serve on the Tensilica board of directors.

Read more at http://www.tensilica.com/news_events/pr_2008_07_16.htm

Triductor Licenses Tensilica Diamond Standard 212GP Processor Core

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 synthesizable 32-bit RISC processor core that also supports basic single-MAC DSP functions. Read more at http://www.tensilica.com/news_events/pr_2008_07_08.htm

Imperas Announces Licensing, Distribution Relationship with Tensilica

Tensilica has signed a partnership agreement with Imperas to allow fast functional, instruction accurate models of its popular Xtensa and Diamond Standard processors to run on Open Virtual Platform (OVP) based virtual platforms. Specifically, wrapper files enabling integration of the Tensilica processor models are now available for free download from the OVPworld.org website. These models will run with Tensilica’s TurboXim fast functional simulator, which simulates at speeds 40 to 80 times faster than a traditional instruction set simulator.

For more information, see http://www.tensilica.com/news_events/pr_2008_06_06.htm

Tensilica and SPIRIT DSP Partner for Mobile Multimedia Audio and Voice

SPIRIT DSP, the world’s leading supplier of voice, audio and video software engines, and Tensilica, Inc. today announced that they have formed a strategic partnership and can now deliver 18 optimized, high quality digital audio and voice software packages that run on Tensilica’s HiFi 2 Audio Engine, an increasingly popular audio architecture for system-on-chip (SOC) designs.

Immediately available, SPIRIT audio software packages include: AAC-LC decode and encode, aacPlus v1 and v2 decode and encode, BSAC decode, MP3 decode and encode, Ogg Vorbis decode, and WMA decode and encode. Voice codecs include AMR-NB (narrowband), AMR-WB and G.729AB.

For more information, see http://www.tensilica.com/news_events/pr_2008_06_04.htm

New Open Source Linux Program

Tensilica, Inc. today 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, documentation, and support and Timestorm: an Eclipse-based IDE that provides a point-and-click interface for kernel and root filesystem configuration, profiling, testing, and debugging.

Read more at http://www.tensilica.com/news_events/pr_2008_06_02.htm

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Tensilica Collaborate

Tensilica and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory today announced a collaboration program to explore new design concepts for energy-efficient high-performance scientific computer systems. The joint effort is focused on novel processor and systems architectures using large numbers of small processor cores, connected together with optimized links, and tuned to the requirements of highly-parallel applications such as climate modeling. These demanding scientific problems require 100 to 1000 times higher computation throughput than today’s high-end computing installations, but conventional systems require so much electricity, generate so much heat, and require such complex physical installations that the costs would be prohibitive. This collaboration in application-directed supercomputing aims at making “exascale systems” (up to 1018 floating point operations per second) feasible and cost-effective.
For more information, see http://www.tensilica.com/news_events/pr_2008_05_05.htm

Dolby TrueHD Decoder Added to HiFi 2 Audio Engine

Tensilica, has added the Dolby TrueHD decoder to its audio codec library for Tensilica’s Xtensa HiFi 2 Audio Engine, one of the most popular commercial audio cores for system-on-chip (SOC) designs. Dolby TrueHD is the ultimate high-definition audio experience for next-generation entertainment, delivering warm, realistic and enveloping sound from the Blu-ray Disc format.

For more information, see http://www.tensilica.com/news_events/pr_2008_04_29.htm