Ikanos Communications Licenses
Tensilica Core Processor Technology
Santa Clara, Calif. – July
23, 2001 ... Tensilica Inc., the Santa
Clara, California (USA) provider of configurable
processor technology, today announced that Ikanos
Communications, Inc. has licensed its Xtensa
processor technology.
According to Ikanos, Xtensa cores will be employed
in a new communications chip family. Anoop Khurana,
Ikanos Communications’ Vice President of
Engineering, said, “We have evaluated a number
of emerging processor technologies, and we decided
upon Tensilica’s configurable Xtensa architecture
because it offers a comprehensive solution, including
synthesizable RTL of the processor, 166-200Mhz
performance range, an automatically generated C-complier
and cycle accurate instruction set simulator, and
Wind River support. We were specially impressed
with the Tensilica Instruction Extension (TIE)
methodology, and the performance improvements achievable
through the use of the TIE compiler.”
Bernie Rosenthal, Tensilica’s vice president
of marketing and business development said, “We’re
delighted to add Ikanos Communications to our growing
family of licensees. We expect to see a number
of broadband products utilizing our Xtensa technology
come to the market in the not distant future.”
About Ikanos Communications
Founded in 1999, Ikanos Communications develops
next-generation broadband silicon solutions for
use in the rapidly-growing, critically important
broadband over copper markets. The company serves
its customers with a broad offering of the industry’s
fastest speed, highest density,lowest power chipsets.
Ikanos' talented team has developed a unique architecture
that provides unprecedented flexibility, enabling
true "Any Port, Any Service!"™ solutions.
Ikanos Communications provides comprehensive offerings
that encompass silicon, embedded software, reference
designs, high-level APIs, and extensive documentation.
Ikanos is a member of, and contributes to, ANSI,
DSL Forum and ITU-T. The company is located at
47709 Fremont Blvd.., Fremont, California 94538.
The firm’s main telephone number is 510 979
4000 and its fax number is 510 979 5000. Additional
information may be found at www.ikanos.com .
About Tensilica
Tensilica was founded in July 1997 to address
the fast-growing market for configurable processors
and software development tools for high volume,
embedded systems. Using the company's proprietary
Xtensa Processor Generator, system-on-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.; Stockholm, Sweden;
Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.; 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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Editors' Notes:
"Tensilica" is
a registered trademark and "Xtensa" is
a trademark belonging to Tensilica Inc. All other
registered trademarks or trademarks are property
of their respective owners.
Tensilica’s announced
licensees are, in alphabetical order, Berkeley
Wireless Research Center, Cisco Systems, Conexant
Systems, Fujitsu Limited, Galileo Technology, Hughes
Network Systems, Ikanos Communications, JNI Corporation,
Mindspeed Technologies, National Semiconductor,
NEC Networks, NEC Solutions, NTT, ONEX Communications,
TranSwitch Corporation and ZiLOG.
Visit Tensilica at Embedded
Systems Conference 2001, September 4-7, Hynes Convention
Center, Boston, Mass., booth number 115.
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