Tensilica Names Dan Weed as Vice President of
Customer Engineering
Semiconductor Industry Veteran Joins Award-Winning
Configurable Processor Company
Santa Clara, Calif. – March
7, 2005 – – Tensilica ,
Inc., the only company to automate the design of optimized application-specific
configurable processors, today announced that Dan Weed has joined the
company in the newly created role of vice president of customer engineering. Weed
is a semiconductor industry veteran with more than 25 years experience
in design center management, marketing and engineering at Cadence Design
Systems, LSI Logic, Fujitsu Microelectronics and Texas Instruments.
“Dan has the extensive background and experience
we want to take on this new role driving our customer-engagement strategy,” said
Chris Rowen, Tensilica president and CEO. “Dan will be responsible
for organizing and managing Tensilica's technical support and customer
engineering operations and we are pleased to have someone with such a
successful track record working with us and our valued customers.”
Most recently, Weed was corporate vice president of strategic
marketing at Cadence Design Systems, Inc. Prior to that, he held a number
of positions at LSI Logic including senior vice president of worldwide
customer engineering and senior vice president, system design automation.
He joined LSI Logic after working at Symbios Logic, which was acquired
by LSI Logic in 1998. At Symbios Logic, Weed was Vice President of Worldwide
Sales. Weed started his career in design center and engineering positions
at Fujitsu Microelectronics, Texas Instruments, Data General and California
Devices.
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. NVIDIA is a registered trademark of NVIDIA
Corporation. All other company and product names are trademarks and/or
registered trademarks of their respective owners
- Tensilica's announced licensees include Agilent,
ALPS, AMCC (JNI Corporation), Astute Networks, ATI, Avision, Bay Microsystems,
Berkeley Wireless Research Center, Broadcom, Cisco Systems, Conexant
Systems, Cypress, Crimson Microsystems, ETRI, FUJIFILM Microdevices,
Fujitsu Ltd., Hudson Soft, Hughes Network Systems, Ikanos Communications,
LG Electronics, Marvell, NEC Laboratories America, NEC Corporation,
NetEffect, Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT), NVIDIA, Olympus Optical
Co. Ltd., Neterion, Seiko Epson, Solid State Systems, Sony, STMicroelectronics,
Stretch, TranSwitch Corporation, and Victor Company of Japan (JVC).
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