Lucid Information Technology, Ltd., Licenses Tensilica's Diamond 212GP Controller Core
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—April 18, 2006—
Tensilica(R), Inc. today announced that Lucid
Information Technology, Ltd., of Kfar Netter, Israel, has licensed its
Diamond Standard 212GP general-purpose processor core for a new
scalable multi-GPU chip design project.
The Diamond 212GP is a flexible mid-range RISC controller that
includes instruction and data caches, a 16-bit multiply-accumulator,
DSP functions and zero-overhead loop support. The Diamond 212GP also
includes a single-cycle latency local interface bus. This processor
core provides 40 percent better performance and 30 percent lower power
than an ARM946E-S processor.
"We particularly liked the in-bound DMA capability of the Diamond
Standard series," stated Moshe Steiner, CEO, Lucid. "With this feature
we are able to realize significantly higher computational and data
throughput when compared to alternative architectures."
The Diamond 212GP provides designers with direct interface input
ports and output wires for direct connections to other hardware blocks
on the chip, providing a convenient and lower-power alternative to
bus-based, memory-mapped I/O interfaces. Thirty-two individually
sampled input ports and 32 single-bit output wires provide
device-driver programmers with a generous number of general-purpose
I/O bits for hardware interface and system control. These I/O ports
provide direct control between the Diamond processor and related
peripherals. These wires and ports are similar in concept to GPIO pins
on classic microcontrollers, and are unavailable on other popular
processor cores.
"We welcome Lucid to the Tensilica licensee family as one of the
first publicly announced licensees of the new Diamond Standard
family," stated Steve Roddy, Tensilica's vice president of marketing.
"As a fast moving startup with an aggressive design target, Lucid's
choice of the Diamond Standard series showcases our goal of making the
Diamond Series processors the quick on-ramp to Tensilica's
architecture."
About Lucid Information Technology, Ltd.
Lucid Information Technology is an early stage, venture-backed
company in Israel focused on developing a high-performance SoC and
architecture for scaling graphics performance in computers and games
reaching performance and price-performance ratios never considered
possible before.
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, Lucid Information Technology,
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:
Tensilica, Inc.
Paula Jones, 408-327-7343
Email Contact
or
Tanis Communications
Erika Powelson, 831-424-1811
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