Cadence First to Demo Complete M-PCIe PHY and Controller Solution at MIPI and PCI-SIG Conferences

One of the hottest (or should I say coolest – because low power is so important) new standards is PCI Express® (PCIe) over M-PHY, or M-PCIe.  To implement it properly, it’s essential that the controller and PHY work well together as the interface specification between them is, to put it mildly, loosely defined. 

Our booth was jammed at the PCI-SIG conference, and our demo of a complete PHY and controller for mobile PCI Express was very impressive.  Find out more on the Cadence blog.

What Cadence's Acquisition of Evatronix Brings to the IP Party

Cadence's expanding IP portfolio now includes Evatronix.  They bring some great IP products to the Cadence mix, including USB solutions, NAND Flash IP, SD Host 4.0, MIPI SLIMbus IP, and an 8051 controller.  Find out more by reading this blog.

Cadence Fellow and Ex Tensilica Founder and CTO Chris Rowen Interviewed about Cadence Acquisition by New Electronics

"He describes the acquisition by Cadence as a watershed advance in the eda and IP business. It is, he believes 'unique in the industry', meshing as it does Tensilica's strengths in assessing a design's system architecture, the functionality, the algorithms needed to run in silicon to accomplish a particular task and how to put all of that together with Cadence's interconnect blocks, design and verification interactions to build the pieces."  Read entire interview here.

See Tensilica in the Cadence Booth at DAC Next Week in Austin

Chris Rowen will be presenting "Goldilocks and the Three Bears of Programmability" in a DAC special session Tuesday 10:30-12.

Steve Roddy will be presenting our new IVP Image/Video processor and Customizable Processor Basics in the Cadence Theater.

And I'll be working the booth near the IP stand. Stop by to play our cool game and win a Samsung tablet or Apple TV. There's a prize for everyone who stops by.

See you there!

See Cadence Fellow Chris Rowen's Presentation on the Tensilica IVP Image/Video Processor

Did you miss Chris' presentation at the Embedded Vision Summit? It's up on YouTube now and you can learn about Porting Applications to High-Performance Imaging DSPs.

See the Tensilica booth at ChipEx 2013 in Israel

Cadence Completes Acquisition of Tensilica

From Cadence's press release:
"Cadence this week completed its previously announced acquisition of Tensilica, Inc., a leader in dataplane processing IP. The cash outlay at closing, after taking into account adjustments for certain costs and an estimated $25 million of cash held by Tensilica at closing, was approximately $326 million. In addition, Cadence assumed certain unvested Tensilica options. Tensilica's configurable dataplane processing units complement industry-standard processor architectures and are optimized for embedded data and signal processing. Tensilica's target markets include mobile wireless, network infrastructure, auto infotainment and home applications. The Tensilica team, led by Jack Guedj, will report to Martin Lund, Cadence's senior vice president of research and development, SOC Realization Group."
See press release.

ComplexIQ Partners with Tensilica for Multimedia over Coax (MoCA) Network Interface

MoCA is becoming the standard for home entertainment networking, including multi-room DVR (digital video recorder), personal content sharing, OTT (over the top) content sharing and IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) applications. Cable, satellite and IPTV suppliers use the MoCA interface to provide multiple streams of HD video, delivering high throughput and high quality service.
See press release.

Inomize Becomes Newest Tensilica Design Center in Israel

“We’re excited to work closely with Tensilica, who is creating a major presence in Israel for many signal processing designs,” stated Udi Shaked, CEO, Inomize. “Tensilica’s ConnX communications DSPs and HiFi audio/voice DSPs are ideal for many companies in Israel doing digital signal processing. Instead of using inflexible, legacy, off-the-shelf DSPs, Tensilica’s customers can customize cores for their exact specifications, letting them run at the lowest power and area while achieving higher performance.  That level of customization is essential for the highly innovative customer base that we serve here in Israel.”  See press release.

Algotochip is Tensilica's Newest Design Center Partner

Algotochip’s patented approach can speed hardware and software design for SOCs in as little as eight weeks. Algotochip guarantees that its SOC meets all the performance specifications made by the customers, and insures that it will be right the first time. See press release.