Tensilica Processor IP Selected by NEC
Santa Clara, Calif., February
21, 2000 … Tensilica Inc., a Santa
Clara-based provider of application-specific
processor technology, disclosed today that NEC
Corporation has entered into a license agreement
with the company for its Xtensa processor technology.
NEC will use Tensilica’s processor generator
for the development of embedded microprocessors
for use in variety of advanced communications
products.
Speaking for NEC, Hitoshi Sato, Assistant General
Manager of NEC’s Switching Division, said “We
are committed to finding and exploiting leading-edge
technologies that will allow us to continually
develop and provide advanced communications products
and systems to our customers. After a careful and
thorough review of the unique and powerful Xtensa
technology, we decided to ally with Tensilica to
help us create new system-level integrated circuits
that will power future NEC products.”
Bernie Rosenthal, Tensilica’s vice president
of marketing and business development, said, “NEC
performed an extensive evaluation of our Xtensa
technology and determined that it was well suited
for their current and future needs in communications
processing. The flexibility to add instructions
and functional units without needing a deep knowledge
of the processor’s microarchitecture was
a key ease-of-use attribute that ultimately led
to NEC’s agreement to license Xtensa.”
About NEC
NEC Corporation (NASDAQ: NIPNY) pioneered the
concept of C&C, the integration of Computers
and Communications, and is the only company in
the world to be counted among top ranking corporations
spanning the wide range of fields essential for
this vision of multimedia: computers, communications
and electronic devices. Employing in excess of
150,000 people around the world, NEC saw net sales
in fiscal year 1998-99 amount to 4,759 billion
yen (approx. US$40 billion). For further information
visit www.nec-global.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 to 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 Yokohama, 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.
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