Fujitsu Renews, Upgrades Tensilica License
TOKYO - Jan. 30, 2001 --- Tensilica
Inc., the leading supplier of configurable microprocessor
core intellectual property (IP), announced today
that Fujitsu Limited has upgraded its license to
a multiple use, time-based agreement. The new pact
covers Tensilica's latest generation, Xtensa III,
and is renewable annually.
According to Fujitsu, one of the most important
features of Xtensa technology is the powerful Tensilica
Instruction Extension ("TIE") compiler
that allows customers to add proprietary extensions
to the processor to achieve significant performance
benefits.
Mr. Toshi Ikezawa, General Manager (ASIC Project)
of the Fujitsu Communication Circuit & Device
Technology Division, Transport Systems Group, said, "We
had been seeking a technology for developing an
application optimized proprietary processor, and
we were impressed that Xtensa simultaneously provided
both a proprietary processor by adding TIE Instructions,
and an excellent application software development
environment. During our initial evaluation, we
confirmed that Tensilica's claimed benefits were
true, and that Xtensa would both shorten our product
development time and reduce our development cost.
We will adopt Xtensa to a broad line of products,
including WDM, Sonet Optical Transmission Systems
and WCDMA Communication Systems."
Bernie Rosenthal, Tensilica's vice president of
marketing and business development, said, "Fujitsu
is a leader in Transport System Technology. We
are honored that they have chosen to upgrade their
license agreement with us. We look forward to working
with them under this broadened relationship."
About Fujitsu
Fujitsu Limited (TSE: 6702) is a leading provider
of Internet-based information technology solutions
for the global marketplace. Comprising over 500
group companies and affiliates worldwide -- including
ICL, Amdahl and DMR Consulting -- it had consolidated
revenues of 5.26 trillion yen ($49.6 billion) in
the fiscal year ended March 31, 2000. Fujitsu's
pace-setting technologies, world-class computing
and telecommunications platforms, and global corps
of over 60,000 systems and services experts make
it uniquely positioned to unleash the infinite
possibilities of the Internet to help its customers
succeed. Altogether, the Fujitsu Group has 188,000
employees and operations in over 100 countries.
Internet: http://www.fujitsu.com/
About Tensilica
Tensilica was founded in July 1997 to address
the fast-growing market for application-specific
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, Burlington, Massachusetts, Princeton,
NJ, 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.
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"Tensilica" is
a registered trademark and "Xtensa" is
a trademark belonging to Tensilica Inc. All other
company names and other names mentioned herein
may be trademarks or registered trademarks of
their respective owners.
Tensilica's announced licensees
are, in alphabetical order, Berkeley Wireless Research
Center, Cisco Systems, Fujitsu Limited, Galileo
Technology, National Semiconductor, NEC Corporation,
NTT, ONEX Communications, Osaka and Kyoto Universities,
TranSwitch Corporation and ZiLOG.
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