TranSwitch Licenses Tensilica’s Xtensa Processor

Santa Clara, Calif., Nov. 15, 1999 … Tensilica Inc., a Santa Clara-based provider of application-specific processors and development tools for System-on-Chip (SOC) designs, today announced that TranSwitch Corporation (NASDAQ: TXCC) had entered into a license agreement for the company’s Xtensa processor technology. TranSwitch will use Tensilica’s processor generator for the development of embedded microprocessors for key strategic applications.

Chris Rowen, Tensilica’s President and CEO, said, "We are very excited to welcome TranSwitch to our growing family of Xtensa users. The breadth of their strategic programs ensure the proliferation and validation of our technology in a broad array of TranSwitch system building block solutions for the communications sectors they serve."

Dr. Santanu Das, President and CEO of TranSwitch Corporation, said, "TranSwitch has consistently provided our customers with the most advanced VLSI solutions for next-generation communications networks. With Tensilica’s Xtensa architecture, our programmable ‘Connectivity Engine’ solutions will provide our customers with a greater degree of flexibility, and greater performance per dollar."

About TranSwitch Corporation

TranSwitch Corporation, headquartered in Shelton, Connecticut, is a leading developer and global supplier of innovative high-speed VLSI semiconductor solutions — Connectivity Engines — to original equipment manufacturers who serve three fast-growing end-markets: the Worldwide Public Network Infrastructure, the Internet Infrastructure and corporate Wide Area Networks (WANs). Combining its in-depth understanding of applicable global communication standards and its world-class expertise in semiconductor design, TranSwitch Corporation implements communications standards in VLSI solutions which deliver high levels of performance. Committed to providing high quality products and service, TranSwitch is ISO 9001 registered. (Detailed information on TranSwitch products, news announcements, seminars, service and support is available on TranSwitch’s World Wide Web site — http://www.transwitch.com.

About Tensilica

Tensilica was founded in July 1997 to address the fast growing market for application-specific microprocessor cores and software development tools in high volume, embedded systems. Using the company's proprietary Xtensa Processor Generator, system-on-a-chip (SOC) designers can develop a processor subsystem hardware design and a complete software development tool environment tailored to their specific requirements in hours. Tensilica's solutions provide a proven, easy-to-use, methodology that enables designers achieve optimum application performance in minimum design time. The Company is engaged in research, development, and customer support from its offices in Santa Clara, California, Waltham, Massachusetts, and Tokyo, Japan.

Tensilica is headquartered in Santa Clara, California (95054) at 3255-6 Scott Boulevard, and can be reached at (408) 986-8000 or via the World Wide Web at www.tensilica.com

"Tensilica" and "Xtensa" are the trademarks belonging to Tensilica Inc.
"Connectivity Engine" and "Connectivity Engines" are trademarks of TranSwitch Corporation.