Tensilica, Inc. and DTS, Inc. have entered into an agreement for Tensilica to provide leading-edge DTS technologies for both Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD and other high end consumer audio applications with Tensilica’s HiFi 2 Audio Engine, the most popular commercial audio DSP core for system-on-chip (SOC) designs.

“By working with Tensilica, we can help our customers incorporate our advanced sound technologies very quickly and easily,” stated Brian Towne, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Consumer Division at DTS. “The market for high definition audio systems is beginning to materialize and the availability of DTS technologies on the HiFi 2 audio engine will help enable the accelerating growth.”

“DTS audio is essential for our consumer products customers who want to quickly bring new high-end audio products to market,” stated Steve Roddy, Vice President of Marketing of Tensilica. “We are pleased to be working with DTS to offer their best in class audio technologies in an optimized firmware implementation that can be quickly designed into new chips by our mutual customers.”

The agreement encompasses the complete range of DTS audio technologies for the consumer electronics market. These range from DTS Digital Surround all the way up to DTS-HD Master Audio, which provides up to 7.1 discrete channels of sound that are bit-for-bit identical to a master soundtrack.

These DTS technologies are currently under development at Tensilica and will be available for HiFi 2 and Diamond Standard 330HiFi licensees in the first half of 2008.