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Tensilica appoints Global UniChip as an Authorized Design Center
SUNNYVALE, Calif.----Oct. 9, 2000--Tensilica®,
Inc., a Santa Clara-based provider of application-specific processors
and development tools for System-on-Chip (SOC) designs, today
announced that Global UniChip Corp. has been appointed as a Tensilica
Authorized Design Center.
Design Centers provide essential services to many organizations
that are defining and building their leading edge SOC designs today.
Through the company's Authorized Design Center program, a part of the
Tensilica Xtensions Network Program, Tensilica ensures that these
services will be available to its licensees. Tensilica Authorized
Design Center engineering personnel receive extensive training on the
Xtensa(TM) architecture, configuration and software development tools,
on-going support and access to technology updates, and direct access
to applications engineering.
``Global UniChip has established a reputation of excellence,
providing their customers design services and IP for complex SOCs in
multimedia and communications products,'' noted Bernie Rosenthal,
Tensilica's vice president of marketing and business development.
``Their focus on platform solutions for these market segments coupled
with expertise in supporting the configurable Xtensa(TM) processor
will enable our customers to achieve their demanding time to market,
performance and cost goals. We look forward to working with UniChip to
serve our customers in Taiwan.''
``Our customers have stringent cost and time to market demands
across a large range of products that require the development of
platform level solutions encompassing significant levels of IP and
integration expertise,'' stated K. C. Shih, president and CEO of Global
UniChip. ``Tensilica's configurable Xtensa processor provides an ideal
foundation to address the widely varying requirements for the creation
of these platforms targeting multimedia, Internet Appliance and
wireless applications.''
About Global UniChip Corp.
Global UniChip was founded in January 1998 as a dedicated full
service SOC Design Foundry providing total solutions from embedded
IP's required for SOC to the challenging and complex tasks of
time-to-market SOC design, production, and testing services. Global
UniChip's rich suite of silicon proven IP's include CPU's such as
RISC/CISC processors and DSP; embedded memory such as DRAM, SRAM, ROM,
and FLASH; programmable memory BIST and DFT for SOC; multi-media cores
such as JPEG encoder/codec/decoder and NTSC/PAL encoder/decoder; mixed
signal cores such as DAC, ADC, PLL, and USB transceiver; Interface
cores such as USB device controller, IEEE1394a, and IrDA.
Global UniChip has over 70 experienced engineers engaged in
research, development, and customer support. In addition, the Company
has engaged extensively with local Universities for joint development
of new IP's and other SOC technologies. Global UniChip is
headquartered in the Hsinchu Science-Based Industrial Park in Taiwan.
Support Offices will be located in the Silicon Valley and Japan by
Q1/2001. (For information, contact: Global UniChip Corp., 2F, No. 26,
R&D 2nd RD., Science-Based Industrial Park, Hsinchu City, Taiwan
00300. Tel: 886-3564-6600 Fax: 886-3564-6000 or via
www.globalunichip.com)
About Tensilica
Tensilica was founded in July 1997 to address the fast-growing
market for configurable microprocessor cores and software development
tools for high volume, embedded systems. Using the company's
proprietary Xtensa Processor Generator, system-on-a-chip (SOC)
designers can develop a processor subsystem hardware design and a
complete software development tool environment tailored to their
specific requirements in hours.
Tensilica's solutions provide a proven, easy-to-use, methodology
that enables designers to achieve optimum application performance in
minimum design time. The Company has over 100 engineers engaged in
research, development, and customer support from its offices in Santa
Clara, California, Waltham, Massachusetts, Princeton, N.J., Houston,
Texas, Oxford, U.K. and Yokohama, Japan.
Tensilica is headquartered in Santa Clara, California (95054) at
3255-6 Scott Boulevard, and can be reached at (408) 986-8000 or via
www.tensilica.com on the World Wide Web.
``Tensilica'' is a registered trademark and ``Xtensa'' and ``Xtensions''
are trademarks belonging to Tensilica, Inc.
Contact:
Tensilica Inc.
Bernie Rosenthal, 408/327-7302
bernier@tensilica.com
or
The Leapfrog Group
Kim Alfaro, 415/563-4769
kimpr@holonet.net
or
Global UniChip Corp.
K. C. Shih, 886-3-5788800
kc@globalunichip.com
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