Products
Xtensa Customizable Processors
Product Briefs
White Papers
The What, Why and How of Configurable Processors
Processor Core Customization: Your SOC design team's fastest route from C to gates
How to Increase ASICs and SOC Computational Performance with Long-Word Processors
Processor Ports and Queues: Easily Overcome I/O Bandwidth Obstacles in Your Next ASIC or SOC Design
Application Notes
Implementing the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)
Videos
Processor Configuration with Chris Rowen
Quickly Create Customized Functional Blocks
Tensilica provides SOC designers with everything needed to quickly design high-speed, customized functional blocks that exactly match the required application. By using Tensilica’s Xtensa processors, design teams can avoid the time and verification required by hand-coding RTL blocks in Verilog or VHDL. Because these processors are fully programmable, changes can be made in firmware after silicon production.
All Xtensa configurable processors have two essential unique features:
- Configurability - designers are offered a menu of checkbox and drop-down menu options so they can pick just the features they need
- Extensibility - designers can add multi-cycle execution units, registers, register files, and much more using the Tensilica Instruction Extension (TIE) methodology, where the designer only has to specify and verify the functional behavior of the new data path and the RTL is automatically generated.
Complete with Matching SW Tool Chain
All of the tools, including the compiler, debugger and ISS, are automatically updated to match the configuration options and all extensible options . The matching tool set is generated by the Xtensa Processor Generator at the same time the new processor RTL is created.
Processor CoresXtensa LX2Tensilica’s top-of-the-line product, Xtensa LX2 takes the configurable, extensible processor to the next level with RTL-equivalent bandwidth and exceptional computational performance. This highly flexible processor is ideal for DSP and data-intensive functions. Xtensa 7Tensilica's Xtensa 7 configurable, extensible processor is optimized for low-power applications and is ideal for control and DSP operations. Comparison
DSPsXtensa DSPs
Tensilica offers the widest range of DSPs in the industry based on the common Xtensa architecture, ranging from audio and video DSPs to the industry's fastest DSP core. You can customize our cores to perform exactly those DSP tasks you need. 535CK DSPThe fastest DSP core according to BDTI. |
Multimedia SolutionsHiFi 2 Audio EngineTurnkey 24-bit audio for SOC designs, with multiple-codec support. VideoTurnkey video solutions for SOC designs, with multiple-codec support. Development ToolsXPRES CompilerThe next-generation in hardware Xtensa Processor Developers ToolkitTensilica has created the most advanced and powerful yet easy-to-use tools for processor customization. Tensilica’s Processor Developer’s Toolkit contains all the tools necessary to create, analyze, and build extremely high performance application-specific processors. Xtensa SW Developers ToolkitIf you need to develop application code for an Xtensa processor, the Xtensa Software Developer’s Toolkit (SDK) provides a comprehensive collection of code generation and analysis tools that will speed the development process. FPGA PrototypingThe Xtensa processor generator produces optimized, fully-placed FPGA components for any Xilinx-based SOC prototyping or hardware emulation platform. |
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