Aquantia Licenses Tensilica's Diamond Standard 108Mini for Next-Generation 10GE Over Copper Integrated Circuit
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—April 19, 2006—
Tensilica(R), Inc. today announced that Aquantia Corp.
of Milpitas, Calif. has licensed the Diamond Standard 108Mini
processor core for their 10 Gigabit Ethernet physical layer
transceiver chip design. Aquantia is developing chips which will
enable the upcoming 10GBASE-T standard for operation over familiar UTP
(Unshielded Twisted Pair) cabling.
The Diamond 108Mini is a fully synthesizable low-power 32-bit RISC
CPU controller core. Although the Diamond 108Mini is smaller in die
area than other 32-bit CPUs, its performance is extremely high. It is
capable of handling any control-plane application where minimal die
area is the most important system design parameter, although advanced
debugging features are supported.
"We liked Tensilica's Diamond 108Mini because it gave us the
performance we needed in a small form factor," stated Ramin Shirani,
vice president of engineering, Aquantia. "With its small footprint and
minimal power requirements, the Diamond 108Mini is well suited for
general control applications."
"We are pleased that Aquantia picked our Diamond Standard 108Mini
CPU over the other CPU cores on the market," stated Steve Roddy,
Tensilica's vice president of marketing. "As an innovative company
leading the emerging 10GBASE-T market, the Aquantia team is headed for
success with their product design."
About Aquantia
Aquantia is developing physical layer transceiver ICs which
address challenging high-bandwidth applications, answering the call
for solutions that meet the market's requirements. Demand for 10GE in
the data center is growing, with the preferred cabling solution being
Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP). The IEEE is developing the 802.3an
standard for 10GE over UTP, and the market is eagerly anticipating
this low-cost solution. Aquantia possesses a unique depth of
experience in communications with solid backing from the venture
capital community. Aquantia combines these ingredients with innovative
technology to deliver solutions for the emerging 10GBASE-T market. For
more information, see www.aquantia.com.
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), Aquantia, 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).
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