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Designed Into Wireless Devices

Tensilica's Xtensa processors have been designed into wireless products by Atheros, NuFront, SiBEAM, and WiLinx. You can now buy several products with Xtensa-based design inside:

Lenovo ThinkPad T61/T61p	Dell Inspiron 1720	D-Link Wireless USB hubs and adapters	Belkin's Wireless USB hubs and adapters

Atheros

Atheros is also using Xtensa processors in their AR6XXX line of ROCm WLAN for mobile solutions, including the AR6001XL and AR6001GL. An Atheros chip with a Tensilica core is performing the WiFi functions in the new Nitendo DSi game.

Atheros is using Tensilica's Xtensa processor in the AR3011 Radio-on-Chip for Mobile (ROCm) product. The Atheros AR3011 is a highly integrated, all-CMOS, single-chip Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR solution specifically designed for both laptop and desktop PCs. Designed for the smallest form factor, the AR3011 has a very power efficient architecture.

Atheros' AR3011 Radio-on-Chip Module for Bluetooth

NuFront

Using Tensilica’s configurable processor technology, NuFront developed, and has gone into mass production with, a T-MMB (terrestrial-mobile multimedia broadcasting) mobile baseband DSP (digital signal processor). By watching mobile TV on a T-MMB phone, visitors at IIC China 2008 were able to experience NuFront’s technology in action. See press release.

SiBEAM

SiBEAM, Inc., a leading innovator of millimeter wave (mmWave) solutions and developer of high-speed wireless communications platforms, is using Tensilica’s Xtensa® configurable processor for a baseband DSP in the wireless link for consumer electronics and display applications, such as HDTV. These applications demand high data rate transmission to multiple devices within an indoor wireless environment using conventional CMOS silicon. By optimizing the Xtensa processor into a tailored processor core, their products can attain the multi-gigabit performance these wireless applications demand.

WiLinx

WiLinx licensed the Xtensa LX2 configurable processor for its low-power True-UWB 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.

“Following an in-depth technical analysis, we selected Tensilica’s Xtensa LX2 configurable processor core for our single chip low power True-UWB product families. The 7-GHz coverage of our solution unleashes the full capacities of the WiMedia based UWB solution to our customers. In particular it includes ‘above 6 GHz WiMedia bands,’ mandatory for Bluetooth-3.0 enabled devices," stated Masoud Djafari, CEO and co-founder of WiLinx. “Tensilica’s easily configurable processor technology plays a key role in delivering the feature rich WiMedia protocol at low power and cost. It also makes the product more flexible for future upgrades."