Phison Uses Tensilica for NAND Flash Memory Controllers and SSD Applications

 “Tensilica’s DPUs allow us to create highly competitive products that are optimized for our unique flash architectures without compromising the implementation or requiring us to create, verify and maintain algorithm-acceleration offload engines to supplement an inflexible fixed-function control CPU,” said Aw Yong,  President at Phison.  “Moreover, Tensilica’s DPUs have special I/Os that speed data in and out of the processing engine, bypassing the system bus, speeding overall system performance.”  See press release.

TU Dresden Innovates with Tensilica's Xtensa LX4

With assistance from Tensilica, the university team integrated an Xtensa LX4 DSP core to demonstrate the overall power reduction benefits from the combination of a 28nm low power technology, adaptive power management and an advanced processor IP core.

                "Tensilica has had a long-standing relationship with the researchers at TU Dresden and congratulates them on this successful design effort," stated Chris Rowen, Tensilca's CTO. "Tensilica's Xtensa processor is a fundamental building block in TU Dresden's wireless communications architecture, and we are working together to proliferate know-how on configurable architectures to the worldwide design community." See press release.

Waves MaxxAudio Sound-Enhancement Technology Is Now Available for Tensilica HiFi Audio DSP Cores

MaxxAudio incorporates a host of proprietary signal-processing technologies to deliver enhanced, dynamic and immersive sound from the small speakers typically found in many consumer electronics products, with better definition, deeper bass and a more enveloping sound field.

Tomar Elbaz, Executive Vice President of Waves, stated: “Elevating Tensilica’s portfolio with MaxxAudio studio-quality sound enhancement suite further underscores our company’s commitment to providing the highest-quality audio solutions to consumers. Waves signal processing and audio technologies are used by top pros in the recording industry, and now this level of professional-quality sonic improvement will be available in a much wider range of products from top consumer electronics manufacturers.”

See the press release.

Visit Tensilica at CES

Our booth looks great! We're in the LVCC, South Hall, Booth MP25060. I'll probably be sitting out front - Paula

Tensilica Introduces the Smallest, Lowest Power DSP IP Core For Always-Listening Voice Trigger and Voice Recognition

Tensilica optimized the HiFi Mini DSP core to be as small and power efficient as possible for voice trigger and voice recognition in two major ways. First, the core uses compact 40-bit encoding, which significantly improves code size. Second, Tensilica added efficient16-bit instructions that are optimized for voice and audio codecs. The result is a post-route core that’s only 0.039 mm² in 28 nm HPL. See the press release.

Happy Holidays from Tensilica

 

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Tensilica to Feature Customer Innovations in Smartphones and Home Entertainment at CES 2013

Tensilica’s booth with a demo area and three meeting rooms is located in the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center in Meeting Room 25060. To schedule a meeting, please email paula@tensilica.com.
Tensilica will be featuring its audio and baseband DSPs. Among Tensilica’s demonstrations will be:
-          Voice trigger and voice commands using the HiFi Audio DSP.
-          Fujitsu’s F-12C Smartphones with integrated HiFi Audio.
-          The latest Smartphones for NTT Docomo’s 4G LTE network in Japan, which use Tensilica DSPs for the LTE communications.
-          Samsung’s 3D Blu-ray Disc™ player with HiFi Audio for 5.1-channel surround sound.
-          HD radios with HiFi Audio.
-          Samsung’s DTVs with HiFi Audio.
See press release.

Tensilica is Ready for IC-CAD Conference in China

Tensilica's LTE Demo is up and running - we're ready for the IC-CAD conference in Chongqiang, China. This demo is really cool - A live FPGA board based demonstration of a transmitter (eNodeB) PHY layer implemented with Tensilica cores and a handset PHY layer implemented with Tensilca cores. The demonstration shows a download to the handset of two 1080p HD movies and playback on big LCD monitors.

Tensilica Hits Major Milestone: 200 Licensees for Dataplane Processor IP Cores

“Reaching the 200^th licensee mark is another testimonial to our growing success. The universe of potential Tensilica licensees and applications addressed by Tensilica is much larger than that of other signal processor licensing companies since our products can range from tiny, micro DPUs to state-of-the-art, high-performance DSPs,” stated Jack Guedj, Tensilica’s president and CEO.  “A growing number of customers are adopting Tensilica IP cores because they can get a significant reduction in time-to-market using our complete hardware and software subsystem solutions for audio and baseband signal processing and our state-of-the-art software programming tools.”
Read the press release.

Tne Tensilica Lobby Wall is Finished

And it looks great! This is what you see when you walk in our lobby at Tensilica.