Tensilica Joins Eclipse Consortium; Christopher Songer Elected to Eclipse Board of Stewards

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 16, 2003 – Tensilica, Inc. the leading supplier of configurable and extensible microprocessor cores, today announced that it has joined the Eclipse consortium to help support, create and promote the open software platform. Christopher Songer, Tensilica’s Director of Platform Engineering, was elected by the board to serve as Tensilica’s steward.

“Tensilica brings valuable background and a unique viewpoint to the Eclipse consortium and our related open-source tools projects,” said Skip McGaughey, chairperson of the Eclipse Board of Stewards. “Embedded technology and the custom system-on-chip design tools integration that Tensilica specializes in represent important growth areas for enterprise class pervasive computing.”

This announcement comes concurrently with Tensilica’s announcement of its new Xtensa Xplorer design environment based on the Eclipse platform. Xtensa Xplorer extends Eclipse to integrate software development, processor optimization and multiple-processor system-on-chip (SOC) architecture tools into one common design environment.

“We are pleased to join the consortium,” stated Songer. “The Eclipse platform was essential to the Xplorer development program and our experience with Xplorer showed that Eclipse is becoming a key embedded tooling technology.”

Songer joins members from WindRiver, IBM, Red Hat, QNX, Fujitsu and many other leading companies on the Board.

About Eclipse

Eclipse is an open platform for tool integration built by an open community of tool providers. Operating under an open source paradigm, with a common public license that provides royalty free source code and world wide redistribution rights, the Eclipse platform provides tool developers with ultimate flexibility and control over their software technology. More information on the ECLIPSE partnership can be found at www.eclipse.org.

About Tensilica

Tensilica was founded in July 1997 to address the growing need for optimized, application-specific microprocessor solutions in high-volume embedded applications. With a configurable and extensible microprocessor core called Xtensa, Tensilica is the only company that has automated and patented the time-consuming process of generating a customized microprocessor core along with a complete software development tool environment, producing new configurations in a matter of hours. For more information, visit www.tensilica.com.