SRS Labs Expands Portfolio of Advanced Audio Solutions Available for Tensilica HiFi DSP Cores

"Tensilica's HiFi 2 and HiFi EP DSP cores are the popular choice of our platform partners," said Joanna Skrdlant, Senior Director, Global Platform Partner Program. "Over the course of a year, we've seen a substantial increase in our licensee's projects based upon chips designed with Tensilica HiFi 2 and HiFi EP DSP core solutions. Given this accelerating demand, we made it a top priority to port our latest audio technologies to the HiFi cores."

See the full press release and details here.

Cavium Picks Tensilica for Next-Generation Wireless Broadband Application

 The Tensilica products selected include Tensilica's popular baseband IP specialized for channel decode applications and signal processing to achieve best-in-class speed, power and performance. Cavium is a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for networking, wireless, storage and video.

"Tensilica's IP will help us achieve best-in-class speed/power/performance, faster time-to-market and great flexibility through efficient programmability," stated Raj Singh, general manager, Wireless Broadband Group, Cavium. "We were particularly delighted with Tensilica's understanding of the computational processing required for wireless broadband and their great technical support."

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This Week - Tensilica Seminars in Taiwan and Japan

It's last chance time to sign up for Tensilica's seminars in Taiwan on Sept. 14 and in Japan on Sept. 16. 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. As examples of the performance you can get from our technology, we’ll showcase our audio and baseband DSPs in this free seminar.

Audyssey’s Sound Correction Technologies Come To Tensilica’s HiFi Audio DSP

Audyssey's audio technology fixes acoustical and perceptual problems to reproduce content as close to the original as possible. This helps ensure that consumers get the best sound from their home theaters, DTVs, automobiles and mobile devices. Audyssey's technology provides expanded surround sound options, preserves immersion at low volumes, helps eliminate distortion, maintains optimal volume when people watch TV, and can even prevent low frequencies from disturbing the neighbors. Read press release.

EtherWaves Expands Digital Radio Choice – Adds Support for Tensilica Dataplane Processor Cores

The new ClearSignal RF agnostic design broadens SoC designers' choice to immediately add Digital Radio capability to mobile devices, while keeping the required low power consumption. This ClearSignal implementation takes advantage of Tensilica's ConnX Vectra LX DSP Engine and other architecture optimizations for achieving a typical DAB channel reception at clock rates as low as 50 MIPS. Read the press release for more details.

Tensilica's Xtensa 9 or Xtensa LX4? What's the difference in Customizable Processors?

Xtensa LX4 is built on top of the Xtensa 9 architecture, so it's important to evaluate both to see what processor is best for your application. This page has an interesting comparison between the two.

White Paper: 10 Tips for Successful SOC Design

SOC designs are major projects. They can produce high-volume, immensely profitable chips but not without risk, as is true for any big project. Most SOC design projects do not complete on time or on budget. Too many are not completed at all. Although there is some risk involved, the rewards for success are great. These 10 tips will help your team find the path to a successful SOC design.

Look to Tensilica for the Widest Range of DSP IP Cores

Everybody's DSP requirements are different. Instead of trying to figure out how to squeeze your requirements into a DSP core that doesn’t quite match your needs, Tensilica gives you lots of choices - as a matter of fact, Tensilica offers an almost unlimited range of DSPs. How can we do this? You can pick from several pre-defined function blocks in our ConnX DSP family or you can design your own to exactly match your application. Find out more.

Check Out Tensilica's Job Listings - We need HW, SW, and DSP Engineers

We just added to our extensive listing of jobs in Pune, Beijing and Santa Clara. Check out the full listing. Do you know any good Software build and QA engineers? How about Baseband DSP software? We're growing right now and hiring as fast as we can find good candidates.

Sign Up Now for Tensilica's Sept. 14 Taiwan Seminar

Learn more about Tensilica's DSPs and DPUs (dataplane processing units) and how these can help you develop chips that are lower power and higher performance than other IP cores. Sign up now.