Santa Clara, Calif. – February 21, 2006 – Tensilica, Inc. today announced that it has signed Diamond partnerships with four current design center partners, D-Clue Technologies, E L & Associates, Genesis Technology, Inc. (GTI), and Magellan Discovery Corporation. These four companies have been supporting Tensilica customers in the past, and will now support customers that want to use Tensilica’s new Diamond Standard processor family. In addition, Tensilica announced that E L & Associates will develop the hardened versions of the Diamond Standard processor cores for the SMIC foundry.
These design centers cover the major ASIC design regions of the world:
"We are delighted to have our design center partners ready to service customers with Diamond Standard processors," stated Chris Rowen, president and CEO, Tensilica. "These companies have proven that they have a deep understanding of our processor architecture and customer requirements. Now, with support for Diamond Standard processors, they can bring Tensilica technology to even more ASIC customers."
In a separate announcement today, Tensilica announced hardened versions of the Diamond Standard processor family will be available for the SMIC foundry. E L & Associates and Tensilica will work together to develop the Diamond hard core packages. The hardened cores will enable systems and semiconductor companies to use SMIC’s cost-effective foundry process with minimum integration cost, time and risk. A hardened core is a complete physical design of a processor core, already thoroughly tested and ready to be quickly dropped into an ASIC design. Designers do not have to go through the synthesis and place-and-route process required of a soft core.
Tensilica offers the broadest line of controller, CPU and specialty DSP processors on the market today, in both an off-the-shelf format via the Diamond Standard Series cores and with full designer configurability with the Xtensa processor family. Tensilica’s low-power, benchmark proven processors have been designed into high-volume products at industry leaders in the digital consumer, networking and telecommunications markets. All Tensilica processor cores are complete with a matching software development tool environment, portfolio of system simulation models, and hardware implementation tool support. For more information on Tensilica's patented approach to the creation of application-specific building blocks for SOC design, visit www.tensilica.com.
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