Tensilica has announced that it has enhanced its successful Diamond Standard processor product line, the lowest-power, most area-efficient and highest-performance licensable cores on the market. The new second-generation Diamond Standard processors include several new features including additional multiplier and divider functional units, several hardware optimizations that lower memory power by up to 30%, and an optional bridge to AXI-based AMBA ...

Tensilica has introduced the industry’s smallest licensable 32-bit processor core based on an industry-standard architecture. The new Diamond Standard 106Micro core takes up only 0.26 mm2 in a 130-nm G process and only 0.13 mm2 in a 90-nm G process, which makes it smaller than the ARM7 or Cortex-M3 cores, yet at 1.22 Dhrystone MIPS/MHz, it delivers higher performance than the ARM9E cores.

Tensilica has announced that Valens Semiconductor, an Israeli start-up, has selected the Diamond Standard 108Mini as the controller for a SOC (system-on-chip) design that will enable high-quality transmission of audio and video in a home networking environment. We are designing a chip that will enable high quality transmission of audio and video in a home networking environment, stated Dror Jerushalmi, CEO of Valens. We picked the Diamond Standa...

Tensilica has announced that it has added a MPEG-4 Bit Sliced Arithmetic Coding decoder to it's HiFi 2 Audio Engine, the most popular commercial audio core for system-on-chip designs. This BSAC decoder is used in Digital Multimedia Broadcasting applications, which allow radio, TV and datacasting to mobile devices, particularly mobile phones.

Tensilica has announced that MediaPhy Corporation, of San Jose, Calif., has licensed the Diamond Standard 108Mini, the low power 32-bit processor core for SOC design. MediaPhy will use the Diamond Standard 108Mini in its next generation mobile audio and video entertainment designs.

Tensilica(R), Inc. today announced that P-Product has joined its Xtensions partner network. P-Product has already ported audio software to Tensilica's HiFi 2 Audio Engine and has significant expertise in audio and video software porting.

Tensilica has announced that two Korean universities have licensed its Xtensa configurable processor. The CoSoC (Center of System on Chip design technology) of Seoul National University is using the Xtensa processor in the classroom and has announced their third annual SOC (system-on-chip) design contest, which will, for the first time, accept designs that use Xtensa processors. The KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) has l...

Tensilica has announced that it has optimized the MP3 decoder for its Xtensa HiFi 2 Audio Engine and Diamond Standard 330HiFi processor core. This MP3 decoder now runs at the lowest power and is the most efficient in the industry says Tensilica, requiring just 5.7 MHz when running at 128Kbps, 44.1 KHz and dissipating 0.45 mW in TSMC’s 65nm LP process (including memories). This makes Tensilica’s Xtensa HiFi 2 Audio Engine ideal for adding MP3 ...

Tensilica has announced that it has optimized the MP3 decoder for its Xtensa HiFi 2 Audio Engine and Diamond Standard 330HiFi processor core. This MP3 decoder now runs at the lowest power and is the most efficient in the industry says Tensilica, requiring just 5.7 MHz when running at 128Kbps, 44.1 KHz and dissipating 0.45 mW in TSMC’s 65nm LP process (including memories). This makes Tensilica’s Xtensa HiFi 2 Audio Engine ideal for adding MP3 ...

Tensilica®, Inc. today announced that it will deliver a Dolby® Digital Plus 7.1-channel decoder designed for HD DVD players, Blu-ray Disc™ players, and set-top boxes. Tensilica will also offer a Dolby Digital Plus 5.1-channel decoder/converter to ensure compatibility with most existing home theater systems equipped with coaxial or optical digital audio inputs. These two optimized decoders have been approved by Dolby for use with Tensilica’s...

ByteTools and Tensilica have announced that ByteTools’ Catapult JTAG probes are available for Tensilica’s Diamond Standard and Xtensa configurable processors. The high-performance, low-cost Catapult devices work out-of-the-box with Tensilica’s software development tools, meaning that users need not install any additional software. Catapult probes interface to the standard XOCD 14-pin JTAG header, with Catapult EJ-1 offering an Ethernet ho...

Tensilica, Inc. has announced that Tallika Corp is now an authorized Design Center partner for customers using the Xtensa configurable processor in their system-on-chip (SOC) designs. Tallika offers concept-to-production professional services serving OEMs in networking, consumer, storage and computing markets as well as digital and mixed-signal semiconductor companies.

Tensilica has announced that Enuclia Semiconductor has selected its Xtensa LX processor with the HiFi 2 Audio Engine for its next-generation flat-panel TV integrated circuits. Enuclia is developing chips that produce the best possible picture on analog and digital televisions whether they are displaying standard or high-definition content.

To address the growing need to pro-actively reduce power consumption in embedded systems, Tensilica has announced the Xenergy estimator, an energy estimator for both Xtensa configurable processor and Diamond Standard processor users. By using the Xenergy tool to optimize for energy early in the SOC (System On Chip) design cycle, designers can cut processor and local memory energy requirements by up to half by making intelligent design trade-off...

Tensilica, Inc. has announced that Sony Corporation has renewed and updated its license for Tensilica’s Xtensa LX2 configurable processor.

Tensilica has announced its new TurboXim fast functional simulator, which is 40 to 80 times faster than its proven cycle-accurate ISS (Instruction Set Simulator). Tensilica also introduced its ability to automatically generate SystemC models to match all possible configurations of its Xtensa configurable processors and Diamond Standard series processors. These introductions significantly speed ESL (embedded system level) design and architectural...

Tensilica has announced that eInfochips has joined the Tensilica Xtensions Design Center Partner Program and is offering system-on-chip design services for customers using Tensilica’s Xtensa configurable processors or Diamond Standard processor cores. eInfochips has design centers in the US and India and a proven track record in design services ranging from silicon design and verification to physical design as well as board design and embedded...

Tensilica has announced that PnpNetwork Technologies, Inc., of Seoul, Korea, has licensed two Diamond Standard processor cores for their digital mobile broadcasting chip designs for mobile consumer broadcast TV applications and video-enabled handset designs. PnpNetwork will use the Diamond Standard 330HiFi for high-quality audio processing and the Diamond Standard 212GP as a control processor for their chip designs.

Tensilica Inc. today announced that WiQuest Communications, Inc. has deployed the Xtensa configurable processor in WiQuest’s WQST110 ultrawideband (UWB) wireless USB chip design.