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Tensilica Appoints Spike Technologies as Authorized Design Center
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 23, 2001--Tensilica®
Inc., the leading supplier of configurable processor core intellectual
property (IP) for System-on-Chip (SOC) designs, today announced that
Spike Technologies has been appointed a Tensilica Authorized Design
Center and has joined the Tensilica Xtensions(TM) Network.
As an Authorized Design Center, Spike's engineering personnel will
receive extensive training on the Xtensa architecture, configuration
and software development tools, on-going support and access to
technology updates.
``Spike Technologies has established an excellent reputation for
providing quality design services to their customers for complex SOC
designs,'' said Bernie Rosenthal, Tensilica's vice president of
marketing and business development. ``Their expertise in supporting
Tensilica's IP will enable our customers to achieve their demanding
time-to-market, performance, and cost objectives. We look forward to a
beneficial association.''
Design Centers like Spike provide essential services to many
organizations that use leading edge SOC designs in their products.
Spike will have access to Tensilica's IP to help these organizations
complete their SOC designs.
``The high performance and time-to-market requirements of our
customers demand effective solutions that need significant levels of
IP and integration expertise,'' stated Pradeep Vajram, COO of Spike
Technologies, Inc. ``This association with Tensilica brings together a
unique configurable processor technology and an experienced design
team to help customers with their SOC designs.''
About Spike Technologies
Spike Technologies, Inc. (www.spiketech.com) was founded in 1994
and has established itself as a leading Chip Design company
specializing in ASIC, FPGA, Custom Layout & Circuit Design, and EDA
Tools development. Spike is a Preferred Design Partner for some of the
top technology companies in the world and has the ability and
experience in providing quality solutions for all phases of VLSI
design.
Headquartered in Milpitas, Calif. with a state-of-the-art Design
Center in Bangalore, India, Spike's expertise ranges from
accomplishing fast and accurate implementation of a single VLSI design
to the composite task of building multi-million gate system-on-chip
(SoC) designs. Spike has delivered expert design skill, dedicated
professional project management, and the quality and integrity
expected from a truly world-class organization.
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, Calif.; Burlington, Mass.; Princeton, N.J.; Houston, Texas;
Oxford, U.K.; Stockholm, Sweden; Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.; and Yokohama,
Japan.
Tensilica is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. (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.
Contact:
Tensilica, Inc., Santa Clara
Kim Alfaro, 408/327-7343
kim@tensilica.com
or
Tanis Communications
Nikki Tanis, 408/371-9394
nikki@taniscomm.com
or
Spike Technologies, Milpitas
Pradeep Vajram, 408/935-0570
pradeep@spiketech.com
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