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See our customer gallery to discover computers, games, cell phones, printers, networking devices and other products that Xtensa and Diamond Standard processors have been designed into.
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Tensilica has over 120 licensees of the Xtensa processor technology and Diamond Standard processor cores. Here is a brief description of a portion of the publicly disclosed users of our technology |
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ADDMM
ADDMM has licensed a Tensilica processor.
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AFA Technology
Afa Technologies, Inc. selected the Xtensa configurable processor for a new multi-standard mobile digital TV receiver system-on-chip (SOC) design project. “Tensilica’s unique technology allows us to implement in low-power processors what previously was only possible using hardwired logic. By optimizing the Xtensa processor, we can deliver a programmable solution for advanced mobile TV handsets, and still meet the low power constraints needed to deliver the long battery life consumers expect,” stated Philip Sun, Afa’s executive vice president.
See press release.
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ALPS
The Peripheral Products Division of ALPS Electronic Co., Ltd. has licensed the
Xtensa processor to improve performance and reduce power in portable photo printer products. See press release. |
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AMD/ATI
ATI Technologies Inc., now part of AMD, has licensed the Xtensa configurable processor. This license allows ATI to employ even more advanced features in their SOC (system-on-chip) designs. ATI has already designed the Xtensa processor into five chip designs, including the Imageon 2282 and 2182 applications processors, which are shipping in volume in mobile handsets from leading vendors such as Motorola and Siemens. With Tensilica's Xtensa processors, ATI will get fast time to market with a completely flexible solution that's programmable. See press release. See examples of phones containing the Imageon 2282 and 2182. |
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Aquantia
Aquantia Corp. licensed the Diamond Standard 108Mini processor core for their 10 Gigabit Ethernet physical layer transceiver chip design. Aquantia is developing chips which will enable the upcoming 10GBASE-T standard for operation over familiar UTP (Unshielded Twisted Pair) cabling. "We liked Tensilica’s Diamond 108Mini because it gave us the performance we needed in a small form factor,” stated Ramin Shirani, vice president of engineering, Aquantia. “With its small footprint and minimal power requirements, the Diamond 108Mini is well suited for general control applications." See press release. |
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Astute
Networks
Astute Networks employs ten Xtensa
processors in its 10-Gbit Pericles storage
network processor, capable of handling a variety
of protocols, including TCP, Fibre Channel
and iSCSI, for a range of systems from storage
switches, gateways and servers to converged
Fibre Channel-Ethernet storage systems. See
EETimes article and EDN
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Atheros Communications
Atheros,
a leading provider of advanced wireless solutions, licensed the Xtensa configurable and extensible processor core for future product designs. "We selected Tensilica's Xtensa processor because of its high-performance, low power and small size which are ideal for a wide range of very compact wireless applications," said Rick Bahr, VP of Engineering for Atheros Communications. See press release The u-Nav group picked Xtensa for its GPS designs. See press release.
Atheros is using the Xtensa processor in the AR3011 Radio-On-Chip. |
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Avision
Avision Inc., the leading Taiwanese supplier of multi-function printing/copying/scanning
office products, is using the Xtensa processor in a scanner product. More
details |
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Broadcom
Broadcom uses the Xtensa processor
in the CALISTO line of Voice over IP communications
processors.
 download pdf Success Story
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Brocade
Brocade is a licensee of the Xtensa
processor.
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Chiplen
Chiplen licensed Tensilica's Diamond processor. |
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Cisco
Cisco is both a repeat customer of
the Xtensa processor and an investor in Tensilica.
Tensilica’s Xtensa processors are used
in the innovative 40 Gigabit per second (Gbps)
Cisco Silicon Packet Processor used in the
Cisco CRS-1. See
press release and EE
Times article for more information. Tensilica's Xtensa processors are also used in the QuantumFlow Processor in Cisco's ASR1000 router. See EETimes article. |
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CMC Microsystems
CMC Microsystems licenses the Xtensa LX2 processor to boost the prototyping capability available to university researchers through Canada’s System-on-Chip Research Network (SOCRN). This will enable engineers at 36 participating SOCRN universities to create FPGA-based hardware prototypes for designs that include customized versions of the Xtensa LX2 processor. See press release.
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Conexant
Conexant is a licensee of both Xtensa
and Vectra, as well as an investor in Tensilica. |
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DS2
Design of Systems on Silicon S.A. (DS2) licensed Tensilica’s Xtensa configurable processor to use as a controller in a 200 Mbps powerline chipset. This chipset enables broadband and networking in homes over power lines, coaxial cable and telephone wire. “We needed a supplier we could depend on, and we were very impressed with Tensilica’s support for their products,” stated Mayte Bacete, operations director, DS2. “The Xtensa configurable processor gives us the right mix of performance and low power that we need for these chip designs.”
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Design Art Networks
DesignArt Networks is using multiple Xtensa LX2 cores to speed product development and reduce risk to their WiMAX wireless baseband chip design. Multiple Xtensa LX2 cores are used in PHY and MAC layers of DesignArt’s SOC platform, where some are replacing RTL state machines with high performance software, and some have been configured as custom DSP engines, handling high-speed signal processing functions. See press release. |
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EE Solutions
EE Solutions, a leading design service provider with considerable expertise in SOC design, licensed the Diamond Standard 108Mini processor core for a high-performance, low-power application for one of its customers. "Tensilica’s Diamond Standard 108Mini core perfectly met our needs for a low-cost, low-power, high-performance controller core for a high-volume customer application in the mobile space,” stated Jim Su, chief executive officer of EES. “We evaluated all of the popular 32-bit controller cores on the market, and Tensilica’s Diamond Standard 108Mini gave us the best price,performance and power solution.”
See press release.
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Seiko
Epson
Seiko Epson Corporation (“Epson”) is using multiple Xtensa processors in its REALOID printer engine chip. According to Katsuhiko Nishizawa, General Manager of IJP Design
Department of Imaging & Information Product Division of Epson’s Imaging Products Operations Division, “By using pre-verified Xtensa processors instead of traditional RTL methods of implementing the image processing datapath, we completed the design of the REALOID chip with less than half the development costs of previous chips.” See press release. See examples of printers using Xtensa processors. See success story. |
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Fujitsu
Fujitsu Transport Systems adopts Xtensa
processor for WDM, Sonet optical transmission
systems and WCDMA communication systems and
more! More details |
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Hudson
Soft
Hudson Soft is using Xtensa processors
to deliver breakthrough graphics quality to
manufacturers of small, battery-operated hand-held
devices as well as specialty entertainment
consoles. See press release. See examples of the Konami games that use Xtensa processors.
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Ibiquity
iBiquity Digital Corporation licensed Xtensa LX configurable processors, including the market leading HiFi2 audio engine, to provide digital baseband and audio processing for many HD Radio™ receivers. iBiquity also is a value-added reseller of Tensilica’s technology, bundling it into select iBiquity silicon Intellectual Property (IP) offerings marketed to major semiconductor companies. See press release. |
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Ikanos
Ikanos Communications, a fabless semiconductor
vendor serving the broadband access concentrator
market, uses the Xtensa processor as the heart
of its Burst Mode Engine (BME) chip, which
is in the SmartLeap 8100, SmartLeap 8800 and
CleverConnect 150 chip sets. See the press
coverage of the SmartLeap 8800 introduction
in CommsDesign. Read about Ikanos' fifth generation chip set with IPTV support.
download pdf Success Story See more information on the SmartLeap product with Xtensa inside. |
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Intel |
Intel is a customer of Tensilica |
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Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks (previously known as NetScreen) uses two Xtensa processors in its NetScreen-ISG 1000 and 2000 security gateways. These are high-performance integrated security gateways that deliver scalable network access for enterprise, carrier and data center networks. See more information on the Juniper GigaScreen-3. |
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LG
Electronics
LG Electronics used the Xtensa configurable
processor core to deliver the world's first
mobile phone capable of receiving digital broadcast
signals. Compatible with the "Terrestrial digital-multimedia-broadcast"
(T-DMB) system, a broadcast system currently
being rolled out in Korea, the new LT1000 mobile
phone is powered by a sophisticated digital
media processor which was designed using the
Tensilica Xtensa processor core and design
environment.
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press release. See examples of LG phones that employ Tensilica's processors. |
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Lucid
Lucid Information Technology, Ltd. licensed the Diamond Standard 212GP general-purpose processor core for a new scalable multi-GPU chip design project. "We particularly liked the in-bound DMA capability of the Diamond Standard series,” stated Moshe Steiner, CEO, Lucid. “With this feature we are able to realize significantly higher computational and data throughput when compared to alternative architectures." See press release. |
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Marvell
Marvell uses the Xtensa processor
in a range of products, including the Yukon
family of Ethernet controllers, the LinkStreet
family of SOHO router chips, the Horizon
family of communications controllers, and printer engines. See press release on company-wide license of Xtensa LX2.
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pdf Success Story See examples of products using Marvell's Net-GX IPSec Accelerator Engine |
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MediaPhy
MediaPhy Corporation licensed the Diamond Standard 108Mini for its next generation mobile audio and video entertainment designs. “One of our main target application areas is battery operated mobile/portable devices where power consumption is a very critical factor.” stated Mohammad Moradi, Co-Founder and Executive VP of Engineering at MediaPhy. “As such, we have chosen the Tensilica Diamond Standard 108Mini processor core to benefit from its low power consumption and small area at the same time.” See press release.
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NEC
NEC is both a licensee and an investor
in Tensilica.
NEC Laboratories America and NEC Corporation have Xtensa licenses. More details
NEC’s iStorage NV8200 network attached storage (NAS) appliance for enterprise
data processing uses Xtensa. More information on NEC's W-CDMA Base Station.
download pdf Success Story WDCMA
download pdf Success Story TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE)
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NetEffect
NetEffect, Inc. chose Xtensa processor
technology for their high-performance Ethernet
communications products. “Tensilica’s
automated process enabled us to try different
configurations and pick the best one, optimized
for our exact application, in a fraction of
the time that it would take us using other
alternatives.,” stated Rick Maule, NetEffect’s
CEO. See press release. See more information on NetEffect 10Gb iWARP Ethernet Channel Adapters.
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Neterion
Neterion is the market leader in the 10-gigabit Ethernet adapter market, and is using the Xtensa LX processor for next-generation designs. "Tensilica’s automated configurable processor design approach gives us the speed we need with lower power and smaller die size,” stated Dennis Shwed, Neterion’s vice president of hardware engineering. “Tensilica’s Xtensa LX processor delivers the performance levels required for demanding 10-gigabit Ethernet in high-speed server and storage networking applications.” See press release.
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Nethra Imaging licensed the Diamond Standard 108Mini processor core as the main system controller for its NI-2065/66 3.2-megapixel smar camera module image processor with JPEG encoder. “We picked Tensilica’s Diamond 108Mini over other processor cores because of the small code size, small area and ease of integration into our product development environment,” said Murty Bhavana, Nethra’s vice president of marketing. See press release. |
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NTT
NTT Communications Corporation (Japan)
is a Tensilica Xtensa licensee. NTT Electronics
Corp. (NTT) designed two high-performance MPEG-2
CODECs using Tensilica’s Xtensa cores.
See the
press release. See the success
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NuFront
NuFront Software of Beijing, China, has designed a baseband DSP for China's Mobile TV handset standard. They are using the Xtensa processor because they can optimize it for the performance they need.
See press release. NuFront's T-MMB mobile solution was demonstrated at China's IIC 2008 exhibitions. See press release.
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NVIDIA
NVIDIA uses the Xtensa LX processor
to add specialized functions to its outstanding
graphics capabilities in chips including the GoForce 5500. “For
the application areas we are targeting, the
extensibility and performance of Tensilica’s
Xtensa LX microprocessor were key factors in
our license decision,” stated Chris Malachowsky,
Co-Founder and Vice President of Hardware Engineering,
NVIDIA. “We were very impressed
with Tensilica’s automated approach for
both the processor extensions and the generation
of the associated software tools.” See
press release. See examples of phones using nVIDIA's Tensilica-powered chips. |
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Olympus
Optical Co
Olympus Optical Co., Ltd. of Japan
- a leader in digital imaging technology and
a market leader in film and digital still cameras
- has licensed the Xtensa processor. Read
what Olympus says about using the Xtensa processor
as an alternative to traditional hard-wired
RTL methodologies for SOC design. |
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Penstar Technology
Penstar Technology licensed the Diamond Standard 330HiFi Audio Processor core for use in cellular phones and personal media players (PMPs) conforming to China’s emerging Audio Video coding Standard (AVS). Penstar intends to be the first Chinese company to offer a low power chip that is fully compliant with AVS, following the successful release of its DS-1000 IC product, which is an AVS video decoder IC supporting both standard and high definition video applications for digital TV and IPTV (Internet Protocol TV). Penstar will use the Diamond Standard 330HiFi Audio Processor for both the audio and control functions in the SOC. See press release. |
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Plato Networks, Inc.
Plato Networks licensed the Diamond Standard 108Mini processor core for a 10 Gigabit Ethernet physical layer transceiver (PHY) chip design. Plato Networks is developing low-power single-chip 10 Gbps physical layer ICs for low-cost copper cabling based on the newly approved IEEE 10GBASE-T standard (802.3an). Pirooz Hojabri, vice president of engineering, Plato Networks, said, “The Diamond Standard 108Mini was the perfect fit from a size, power, code density, and cost perspective.” |
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PnpNetwork Technologies, Inc.
PnpNetwork licensed two Diamond Standard processor cores for their digital mobile broadcasting chip designs for mobile consumer broadcast TV applications and video-enabled handset designs. PnpNetwork will use the Diamond Standard 330HiFi for high-quality audio processing and the Diamond Standard 212GP as a control processor for their chip designs. See press release.
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Samsung
signed a broad multi-year license for Tensilica’s Diamond Standard 330HiFi audio DSP. Samsung is using the Diamond Standard 330HiFi audio DSP in mobile handset and other designs. G. S. Han, vice president of Samsung Electronics, System LSI Division, said “After a thorough technical evaluation of Tensilica’s HiFi offering, we found that the Diamond 330HiFi was the right audio DSP for Samsung and will be a key DSP in our IP portfolio for years to come.” See press release. |
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Sandforce
SandForce, Inc., is a semiconductor company developing System on Chip products that boost the storage I/O performance of next generation servers, workstations and personal computers by orders of magnitude. They are using the Diamond Standard 108Mini RISC controller core in their high-performance storage controller chipset designs. See press release. |
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SiBEAM, Inc.
SiBEAM, Inc., is a leading innovator of millimeter wave (mmWave) solutions and developer of high-speed wireless communications platforms, is using the Xtensa configurable processor for an upcoming chip design project. They picked the Xtensa processor because it could be optimized to attain the performance these wireless applications demand.
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TranSwitch
TranSwitch Corp. is a repeat Tensilica customer using the Xtensa processor in a variety of high-end communications ICs. Transwitch acquired Onex Communications in late 2001. Onex also used six Xtensa processors in their OMNI chips. Read more from Microprocessor Report. Read more about Transwitch in EE Times. And find out more about Transwitch OMNI products and T3BwP chip.
download pdf Success Story
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UpZide
Based in Sweden, UpZide’s core business is to offer Vectored VDSL chipsets to the market and assisting system integrators and network operators with expert services, enabling them to enter the market with standard, compliant, functioning communication system solutions, on time and with no risk of failure. UpZide's VDSL2 chipset uses over 50 Xtensa LX2 configurable processors. See press release.
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Triductor Technology has successfully taped out two designs with Diamond Standard 212GP general-purpose processor cores as the system controllers for VDSL2 design for both the customer premise (CPE) and central office (CO) designs. See press release. |
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Valens Semiconductor
Valens Semiconductor selected the Diamond Standard 108Mini as the controller for a SOC design that will enable high-quality transmission of audio and video in a home networking environment. “We picked the Diamond Standard 108Mini as our central controller based on the high quality Diamond Standard software tool environment, the low-power advantages of the Diamond 108Mini processor compared to conventional alternatives, and because the Diamond 108Mini core had the performance-headroom we needed,” said Dror Jerushalmi, CEO of Valens
See Press Release
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Validity Sensors Inc.
Validity is a customer of Tensilica.
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Wilinx
WiLinx licensed the Xtensa LX2 configurable processor for its low-power True-UWBTM single chip CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor) solutions. WiLinx True-UWB product offers 7 GHZ (from 3 to 10 GHz) of air spectrum as the key enabler for worldwide adoption of UWB into the cellular phone handsets, PCs, PC peripherals and CE (consumer electronics) devices. See press release.
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WiQuest Communications, Inc.
WiQuest Communications, Inc. has deployed the Xtensa configurable processor in WiQuest’s WQST110 ultrawideband (UWB) wireless USB chip design. “We licensed the Xtensa processor because it was the lowest power processor on the market, which is essential for wireless designs,” stated Greg Christison, vice president of Engineering, WiQuest Communications. See press release. |
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XM Radio
XM Radio is a licensee of Tensilica. |
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“We selected Tensilica’s Xtensa processor for its ability to help us achieve our goal of developing innovative-multi-gigabit, lower-power mmWave communications products. By optimizing the Xtensa processor into a tailored processor core, this enables our products to attain the performance these wireless applications demand.”
Kumar Mahesh, Manager of MAC and Software Design for SiBEAM, Inc. |
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