Tensilica appoints Global UniChip as an Authorized
Design Center
Santa Clara, CA, October 9,
2000 – Tensilica, Inc., a Santa
Clara-based provider of application-specific
processors and development tools for System-on-Chip
(SOC) designs, today announced that Global UniChip
Corp. has been appointed as a Tensilica Authorized
Design Center.
Design Centers provide essential services to many
organizations that are defining and building their
leading edge SOC designs today. Through the company’s
Authorized Design Center program, a part of the
Tensilica Xtensions Network Program, Tensilica
ensures that these services will be available to
its licensees. Tensilica Authorized Design Center
engineering personnel receive extensive training
on the Xtensa™ architecture, configuration
and software development tools, on-going support
and access to technology updates, and direct access
to applications engineering.
“Global UniChip has established a reputation
of excellence, providing their customers design
services and IP for complex SOCs in multimedia
and communications products,” noted Bernie
Rosenthal, Tensilica’s vice president of
marketing and business development. “Their
focus on platform solutions for these market segments
coupled with expertise in supporting the configurable
Xtensa™ processor will enable our customers
to achieve their demanding time to market, performance
and cost goals. We look forward to working with
UniChip to serve our customers in Taiwan.”
“Our customers have stringent cost and time
to market demands across a large range of products
that require the development of platform level
solutions encompassing significant levels of IP
and integration expertise,” stated K. C.
Shih, president and CEO of Global UniChip. “Tensilica’s
configurable Xtensa processor provides an ideal
foundation to address the widely varying requirements
for the creation of these platforms targeting multimedia,
Internet Appliance and wireless applications.”
About Global UniChip Corp.
Global UniChip was founded in January 1998 as
a dedicated full service SOC Design Foundry providing
total solutions from embedded IP’s required
for SOC to the challenging and complex tasks of
time-to-market SOC design, production, and testing
services. Global UniChip's rich suite of silicon
proven IP’s include CPU’s such as RISC/CISC
processors and DSP; embedded memory such as DRAM,
SRAM, ROM, and FLASH; programmable memory BIST
and DFT for SOC; multi-media cores such as JPEG
encoder/codec/decoder and NTSC/PAL encoder/decoder;
mixed signal cores such as DAC, ADC, PLL, and USB
transceiver; Interface cores such as USB device
controller, IEEE1394a, and IrDA.
Global UniChip has over 70 experienced engineers
engaged in research, development, and customer
support. In addition, the Company has engaged extensively
with local Universities for joint development of
new IP’s and other SOC technologies. Global
UniChip is headquartered in the Hsinchu Science-Based
Industrial Park in Taiwan. Support Offices will
be located in the Silicon Valley and Japan by Q1/2001.
For information, contact:
Global UniChip Corp., 2F, #26, R&D 2nd RD.,
Science-Based Industrial Park, Hsinchu City, Taiwan
00300. Tel: 886-3564-6600 Fax: 886-3564-6000 or
via www.globalunichip.com.
About Tensilica
Tensilica was founded in July 1997 to address
the fast-growing market for configurable microprocessor
cores and software development tools for 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, Princeton,
N.J., Houston, Texas, Oxford, U.K. 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 www.tensilica.com on the
World Wide Web.
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