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Tensilica Announces Design Center Agreement With Genesis Technology Inc.; New Authorized Design Center Will Provide Turnkey LSI Design Services for Tensilica Customers
SANTA CLARA, Calif. & YOKOHAMA, Japan—(BUSINESS WIRE)—May 24, 2004—
Tensilica(R), Inc., the leading supplier of configurable
and extensible microprocessor cores, today announced an agreement with
Genesis Technology Inc. (GTI), one of the leading independent LSI
design companies, also the largest independent semiconductor testing
company in Japan. Under this agreement, GTI will become a recommended
design center for Tensilica and GTI's engineers will be fully trained
on Tensilica's Xtensa(R) processor design technology. GTI, having
technical expertise in LSI hardware and software design, provides
solutions ranging from specification to physical layout for a number
of Japan's top semiconductor and electronics manufacturers.
GTI joins a growing list of third-party companies that have joined
the popular "Tensilica Xtensions Network." Design center members have
been authorized to assist Xtensa licensees with the configuration,
implementation and evaluation of system-on-chip (SOC) designs.
"We wanted to work with Tensilica because we are very impressed
with their ability to automate much of the design process," stated
Akira Nakazumi, Director of LSI Design Division, GTI. "By providing
Xtensa-based SOC solutions to our customers, we believe we can bring a
lot of value to them due to our expertise in digital signal processing
for speech, audio, video and communication applications. With Xtensa
technology, we can very quickly bring customized programmable
solutions to our customers' designs."
"As an established LSI design company with a solid customer list,
we're very proud that GTI decided to join our partner network and
provide Xtensa design services to its customers," said Larry Przywara,
director of strategic alliances for Tensilica. "Having met Tensilica's
high standards for an authorized design center, GTI will now play a
significant role in ensuring the broad and rapid proliferation of
Xtensa cores in high-volume consumer applications."
About Xtensa
The Xtensa configurable and extensible microprocessor architecture
provides a powerful, integrated hardware and software development
environment with thousands of configuration options and an unlimited
range of customer-specific extensions. The environment enables
designers to carefully tune the processor for their particular
application. With an easy-to-use graphical interface, designers can
take advantage of Tensilica's processor generator to create customized
MPU solutions with specialized functional and instructions. Because
these instructions are recognized as "native" by a complete set of
software development tools, developers can simultaneously tune both
application software and processor hardware to meet specific speed,
power and feature goals.
About Genesis Technology Inc.
Genesis Technology Inc. (GTI) is a Japan's largest independent
semiconductor testing company and one of the biggest in the world. On
April 1, 2004, GTI purchased business from KOBELCO LSI Design, Inc.
(KLDI), which is a leading independent LSI design company for
semiconductor and electronics manufacturers. Through this
consolidation, GTI became able to offer a unique combination and
comprehensive services of LSI design, assembly and testing services to
meet outsourcing requirements in the semiconductor industry. GTI can
provide LSI solutions with its advanced capability in digital signal
processing for speech, audio, video and communication applications.
More information is available at www.gti.co.jp. Genesis can be
contacted at:
Genesis Technology Inc.
General Affairs & Planning Division, Planning & Administration
Department
Nakaya Katsura
+81-795-23-6842
katsura-nakaya@nishi.gti.co.jp
About Tensilica
Tensilica was founded in July 1997 to address the growing need for
optimized, application-specific microprocessor solutions in
high-volume embedded applications. With a configurable and extensible
microprocessor core called Xtensa, Tensilica is the only company that
has automated the time-consuming process of generating a customized
microprocessor core along with a complete software development tool
environment, producing new configurations in a matter of hours. For
more information, visit www.tensilica.com.
Editors' Notes:
"Tensilica" and "Xtensa" are registered trademarks belonging to
Tensilica Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective holders.
Tensilica's announced licensees include Agilent, ALPS, AMCC (JNI
Corporation), Astute Networks, Avision, Bay Microsystems, Berkeley
Wireless Research Center, Broadcom, Cisco Systems, Conexant Systems,
Cypress, Crimson Microsystems, ETRI, FUJIFILM Microdevices, Fujitsu
Ltd., Hudson Soft, Hughes Network Systems, Ikanos Communications, LG
Electronics, Marvell, NEC Laboratories America, NEC Corporation,
Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT), Olympus Optical Co. Ltd., S2io,
Solid State Systems, Sony, STMicroelectronics, TranSwitch Corporation,
and Victor Company of Japan (JVC).
Contact:
Tensilica, Inc.
Paula Jones, 408-327-7343
paula@tensilica.com
or
Tanis Communications, Inc.
Joany Draeger, 650-365-3395
joany@taniscomm.com
or
Tensilica K.K.
Masumi Takahashi, +81-45-477-3373 (Japan)
mastaka@tensilica.com
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