Tensilica Offers Free Diamond Core Software Development and Modeling Tools
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—March 14, 2006—
Tensilica(R), Inc. today announced immediate
availability of free evaluation versions of the Diamond Standard
Software Toolkit, the advanced software development and modeling
environment for the Diamond Standard processor core family, which was
announced on February 20, 2006. The Toolkit is available for immediate
download from Tensilica's web site at www.tensilica.com.
"We're making our Diamond Toolkit available for free evaluation to
prove to prospective customers how easy it is to immediately begin
software profiling and code development for all six Diamond Standard
processor and DSP cores," stated Steve Roddy, Tensilica's vice
president of marketing. "This free download enables immediate
evaluation of the Diamond Standard processors for suitability within a
SOC (system-on-chip) design without a purchase commitment."
Software and firmware engineers will want to explore the Diamond
processor software development tools to learn how easy it is to port
application code to the Diamond core processor family, and to
experience the code performance and code size advantages of the
Tensilica Xtensa instruction set architecture. Powerful visualization
tools enable software developers to graphically view and compare
profiling results.
Hardware design teams will want to take advantage of this free
evaluation to experiment with the clock-cycle accurate,
pipeline-modeling instruction set simulator and the associated
performance modeling visualization views within the graphical user
interface that show pipeline activity, cache utilization rates, and
cycles spent on bus cycle activity.
The Diamond Standard Software Toolkit evaluation version includes
Xtensa(R) Xplorer(TM) -- Diamond Edition, a comprehensive graphical
user interface based on the popular Eclipse software environment. This
user interface should be familiar and easy to navigate by most
engineers. Xtensa Xplorer has been proven and refined for several
years as the main user interface for Tensilica's Xtensa configurable
processor family.
The Diamond Standard Software Toolkit evaluation version also
includes Tensilica's XCC Compiler, an advanced C/C++ compiler with
inter-procedural analysis, advanced loop optimizations, ability to
automatically vectorize code, feedback-directed compilation and
profiling-based feedback compilation; a cycle-accurate instruction set
simulator, a complete GNU-based tool-chain for debugging, assembling,
and linking your programs, and software libraries for the six Diamond
Standard controllers, CPUs and DSPs.
About Tensilica
Tensilica offers the broadest line of controller, CPU and
specialty DSP processors on the market today, in both an off-the-shelf
format via the Diamond Standard Series cores and with full designer
configurability with the Xtensa processor family. Tensilica's
low-power, benchmark proven processors have been designed into
high-volume products at industry leaders in the digital consumer,
networking and telecommunications markets. All Tensilica processor
cores are complete with a matching software development tool
environment, portfolio of system simulation models, and hardware
implementation tool support. For more information on Tensilica's
patented approach to the creation of application-specific building
blocks for SOC design, visit www.tensilica.com.
Editors' Notes:
-- Tensilica and Xtensa are registered trademarks belonging to
Tensilica Inc. All other company and product names are
trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective
owners.
-- Tensilica's announced licensees include ALPS, AMCC (JNI
Corporation), Astute Networks, Atheros, ATI, Avago
Technologies, 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, MediaWorks, NEC
Laboratories America, NEC Corporation, NetEffect, Neterion,
Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT), NVIDIA, Olympus Optical
Co. Ltd., sci-worx, Seiko Epson, Solid State Systems, Sony,
STMicroelectronics, Stretch, TranSwitch Corporation, u-Nav
Microelectronics and Victor Company of Japan (JVC).
Contact:
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