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SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 23, 2001-- Tensilica® Inc., the Santa Clara, California (USA) provider of configurable processor technology, today announced that Ikanos Communications, Inc. has licensed its Xtensa(TM) processor technology.

According to Ikanos, Xtensa cores will be employed in a new communications chip family. Anoop Khurana, Ikanos Communications' Vice President of Engineering, said, ``We have evaluated a number of emerging processor technologies, and we decided upon Tensilica's configurable Xtensa architecture because it offers a comprehensive solution, including synthesizable RTL of the processor, 166-200Mhz performance range, an automatically generated C-complier and cycle accurate instruction set simulator, and Wind River® support. We were specially impressed with the Tensilica Instruction Extension (TIE) methodology, and the performance improvements achievable through the use of the TIE compiler.''

Bernie Rosenthal, Tensilica's vice president of marketing and business development said, ``We're delighted to add Ikanos Communications to our growing family of licensees. We expect to see a number of broadband products utilizing our Xtensa technology come to the market in the not distant future.''

About Ikanos Communications

Founded in 1999, Ikanos Communications develops next-generation broadband silicon solutions for use in the rapidly-growing, critically important broadband over copper markets. The company serves its customers with a broad offering of the industry's fastest speed, highest density, lowest power chipsets. Ikanos' talented team has developed a unique architecture that provides unprecedented flexibility, enabling true ``Any Port, Any Service!''(TM) solutions.

Ikanos Communications provides comprehensive offerings that encompass silicon, embedded software, reference designs, high-level APIs, and extensive documentation. Ikanos is a member of, and contributes to, ANSI, DSL Forum and ITU-T. The company is located at 47709 Fremont Blvd.., Fremont, California 94538. The firm's main telephone number is 510 979 4000 and its fax number is 510 979 5000. Additional information may be found at www.ikanos.com.

About Tensilica

Tensilica was founded in July 1997 to address the fast-growing market for configurable processors and software development tools for high volume, embedded systems. Using the company's proprietary Xtensa Processor Generator, system-on-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 130 engineers engaged in research, development, and customer support from its offices in Santa Clara, California; Burlington, Massachusetts; Princeton, NJ; Houston, Texas; Oxford, U.K.; Stockholm, Sweden; Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.; 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.

Editors' Notes:

-- ``Tensilica'' is a registered trademark and ``Xtensa'' is a trademark

belonging to Tensilica Inc. All other registered trademarks or

trademarks are property of their respective owners.

-- Tensilica's announced licensees are, in alphabetical order,

Berkeley Wireless Research Center, Cisco Systems, Conexant

Systems, Fujitsu Limited, Galileo Technology, Hughes Network

Systems, Ikanos Communications, JNI Corporation, Mindspeed

Technologies, National Semiconductor, NEC Networks, NEC Solutions,

NTT, ONEX Communications, TranSwitch Corporation and ZiLOG.

-- Visit Tensilica at Embedded Systems Conference 2001, September

4-7, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Mass., booth number 115.

     Tensilica Inc.
     Kim Alfaro, 408/327-7343
     kim@tensilica.com
        or
     Ikanos Communications, Inc.
     Richard Sekar, 510/438-6208
     rsekar@ikanos.com
          or
     Tanis Communications Inc.
     Nikki Tanis, 408/371-9394
     nikki@taniscomm.com