Designed Into Wireless Cellular Handsets and Portable Media Players
Tensilica’s Diamond Standard and Xtensa
processors are well accepted in wireless cellular handsets and portable media players. Because Tensilica’s processors
are lower power,
they are ideal for hand-held portable devices. Here are some of Tensilica’s customers
that have developed chips that have been designed into leading consumer wireless handsets:
AMD / ATI
ATI – “In our evaluation, we were
very impressed with the suitability of Tensilica’s
Xtensa processor for numerous functions in our
complex SOC designs,” stated Adrian Hartog,
CTO, ATI (now AMD). “By
adding functions in Xtensa processors, rather than
hand coding them in RTL, we can make these functions
programmable, giving us plenty of flexibility for
changing standards and feature sets.”
Tensilica processors are in ATI's Imageon Media Processors 2182, 2282, 2380 and 2388. Here are some of the mobile phones that ATI's chips are designed into.
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Cingular 8125 |
Cingular 2125 |
Cingular 8525 |
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LG PRADA |
Motorola KRZR |
Motorola RIZR |
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Panasonic 705P |
Samsung SPH-V7800 |
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LG Electronics
LG
Electronics – LG Electronics (Korea)
integrated the Xtensa processor into an SOC for
the Korean government’s Digital Multimedia
Broadcasting (DMB) standard and for the European DVB-H standard for television broadcast to mobile phones. Key applications include
cellular phones for the local market as well as
portable devices such as PDAs and digital televisions. Here are some of the LG phones with Xtensa inside:
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LT 1000 |
LG-SB120 |
LG-LB1500 |
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LD1200 |
LG-LB1200 |
LG-KB1500 |
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LG-KD1200 |
LG-SV130 |
LG-KB1300 |
LG Electronics used AMD's Imageon 2282 in it's sleek PRADA touch-screen phone.
NVIDIA
NVIDIA -
NVIDIA licensed the Xtensa LX processor to add
specialized functions to its outstanding graphics
capabilities in new SOC designs. “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.”
Tensilica's Xtensa processor is in NVIDIA's GoForce 5500. Here are some of the phones that use this chip:
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iRiver G10 "Wing" |
O2 Flame |
Samsung P910 and SGH-P920 |
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