System
LSI Co. Ltd. Becomes Authorized Tensilica Design
Center
System LSI Will Provide Xtensa Design Services
for Major Japanese Companies
SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
USA, and YOKAHAMA, Japan, July 7, 2003 – Tensilica®,
Inc., the leading supplier of configurable and
extensible microprocessor cores, today announced
an agreement with System LSI Co. Ltd., a leading
Japanese design services company, for support
of the growing Tensilica customer base throughout
Japan. System LSI is already working with many
major suppliers, including Hitachi, Ltd., Matsushita
Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Sony Co. Ltd.,
Texas Instruments, Inc., and Toshiba Microelectronics
Corp.. System LSI will assist companies with
Tensilica’s Xtensa® core-based
system-on-chip (SOC) designs for a variety of
high-volume industrial and consumer electronics
applications such as digital cameras, data storage,
and communications.
In addition to providing design services System
LSI is collaborating with Sophia Systems on driver
development and porting services for the uITRON
TOPPERS RTOS for Xtensa processors. System LSI
will have a demo in Tensilica’s booth at
ESEC2003, July 9-11, 2003.
System LSI joins the growing list of third-party
companies that have joined the popular “Tensilica
Xtensions Network.” Design center members
have been authorized to assist Xtensa licensees
with the configuration, implementation and evaluation
of SoC designs.
“Our customers need the flexibility and
performance that can only be realized by using
the Xtensa processor,” stated Kazuhiro
Nakaura, CEO, System LSI. “We are excited
to be able to offer our customers Xtensa-based
platform development as well as architecture
development and consulting for how to best use
the Xtensa processor in SOC designs.”
“System LSI has proven that it has deep
technical understanding of demanding architectures
and the best way to implement those architectures
in ASIC and system design,” said Larry
Przywara, director of strategic alliances for
Tensilica. “By meeting Tensilica’s
high standards for an authorized design center,
System LSI has proven that they have the expertise
to add significant value to their customers’ design
efforts.”
About System LSI CO. Ltd.
System LSI Co. Ltd.
was established in 1998 to provide design services,
consulting, research and development, and educational
services for major electronics companies in
Japan. In addition, System LSI has developed
several products including an ATA host/device
controller for data storage, picture processing
equipment, and an encryption module. More information
is available at www.syslsi.com.
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.
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Editors’ Notes:
- “Tensilica” and “Xtensa” are
registered trademarks belonging to Tensilica
Inc. All other trademarks are the property
of their respective holders.
- Tensilica’s
announced licensees are Agilent, Astute Networks,
Avision, Bay Microsystems, Berkeley Wireless
Research Center, Broadcom, Cisco Systems, Conexant
Systems, Cypress, ETRI, FUJIFILM Microdevices,
Fujitsu Ltd., Hudson Soft, Hughes Network
Systems, IC4IC, Ikanos Communications, JNI
Corporation, Marvell, Mindspeed Technologies,
National Semiconductor, NEC Laboratories America,
NEC Corporation, Nippon Telephone and Telegraph
(NTT), Olympus Optical Co. Ltd., ONEX Communications,
OptiX Networks, Osaka & Kyoto Universities,
S2io, Sony, TranSwitch Corporation, Trebia
Networks, Victor Company of Japan (JVC) and
ZiLOG.
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