Tensilica Names Ashish Dixit Vice President of
Hardware Engineering
SANTA CLARA, Calif. –September
22, 2003 – Tensilica, Inc., the
leading provider of configurable and extensible
processors, today announced that Ashish Dixit
has been promoted to vice president of hardware
engineering. Dixit reports to Beatrice Fu, senior
vice president of engineering.
“Ashish has been a key member of our management
team since he joined in early 1998, shortly after
we started the company,” stated Chris Rowen,
Tensilica president and CEO. “This promotion
is a direct result of the consistent leadership
he has shown directing our hardware engineering
and design automation teams and pushing the architecture
of our configurable processors so we continue to
lead the industry in capabilities and flexibility.”
Dixit joined Tensilica in early 1998 as the director
of hardware engineering. Previously he held numerous
positions ranging from design engineer to director
of engineering at Silicon Graphics, working on
MIPS VLSI chip development. From 1983 to 1989 Dixit
was a quality and reliability engineer as well
as a logic design engineer at Intel Corporation.
He holds a Master of Science in Computer Engineering
from the University of California at Santa Barbara
and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science
in Pilani, India. He has been issued eight patents
related to configurable processors and memory management
in RISC and CISC processors.
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, Solid State
System (3S), Sony, TranSwitch Corporation, Trebia
Networks, Victor Company of Japan (JVC) and ZiLOG.
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