Wind River’s Jerry Fiddler Joins Tensilica
Board of Directors
Santa Clara, Calif., August
20, 2001 … Tensilica Inc., the
leading supplier of configurable processor cores
for embedded system-on-chip (SOC) applications,
today announced that Jerry Fiddler, Chairman
and Cofounder of Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND),
a leading provider of software and services for
connected smart devices, has joined the company’s
board of directors.
“We are truly delighted to welcome Jerry
Fiddler to our board of directors,” said
Chris Rowen, Tensilica’s president and CEO.”His
outstanding entrepreneurial experience is will
be an extraordinary asset for Tensilica. He has
created and forged the world’s preeminent
supplier of commercial real-time operating systems
and has been a luminary at the intersection of
silicon and software for more than two decades.
We look forward to his wisdom and guidance as the
convergence of hardware and software on to single
chips of silicon continues.”
“I have followed Tensilica closely over
the past three years, both as an investor and as
an observer of key embedded technology and business
trends,” said Jerry Fiddler.. “The
company’s combination of configurable processor
technology, outstanding people and customer momentum
is compelling. They’re well positioned at
a key point in the new trend toward dynamic silicon.
I look forward to serving on Tensilica’s
board of directors.”
About Jerry Fiddler
Fiddler cofounded Wind River Systems in 1981.
Today Wind River, with operations worldwide,Systemsis
the market share leader in embedded technology
and continues to be innovate and define the market.
Beginning with his tenure at the University of
California’s Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory,
Fiddler has earned a reputation as an expert in
the design and implementation of real-time systems.
He has published and presented numerous papers
and articles on embedded technology and the rise
of hidden, or embedded, computers in everyday life.
Fiddler graduated from the University of Illinois
with a double baccalaureate in music and photography,
and he received an M.S. in computer science from
the same institution.
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. “Wind
River Systems”is a trademark ofWind RiverSystems,
Inc. JNI, JNIC, Emerald, FibreStar, DriverSuite
and EZ Fibre are trademarks or registered trademarks
of JNI Corp. 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, JNI
Corporation, Mindspeed Technologies, National Semiconductor,
NEC Networks, NEC Solutions, NTT, ONEX Communications,
TranSwitch Corporation and ZiLOG.
Tensilica’s announced
licensees are, in alphabetical order, Berkeley
Wireless Research Center, Broadcom,Cisco Systems,
Conexant Systems, Fujitsu Limited, Hughes Network
Systems, Ikanos Communications, JNI Corporation,
Marvell (Galileo Technology),Mindspeed Technologies,
National Semiconductor, NEC Networks, NEC Solutions,
NTT, ONEX Communications,TranSwitch Corporation
and ZiLOG.
Tensilica’s Board of Directors
is composed of the following industry and academic
leaders:
- Bandel Carano, GeneralPartner,
Oak Investment Partners
- Bill Elmore, General Partner
and Founder, Foundation Capital
- Jerry Fiddler, Chairman
and Cofounder, Wind River Systems Inc.
- Harvey C. Jones, Chairman
and Cofounder, Tensilica, Inc.
- Richard Newton, Ph.D., Dean
of the School of Engineering, University of California
at Berkeley
- Chris Rowen, Ph.D., President,
CEO and Cofounder, Tensilica, Inc.
- James Wei, General
Partner and Cofounder of Worldview Technology
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