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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Semiconductor intellectual property core |
| Founded | 1997 |
| Fate | Acquired by Cadence Design Systems in 2013 |
| Headquarters | San Jose, California |
Key people | Chris Rowen, Jack Guedj |
| Products | Microprocessors, HiFi audio, DSP cores |
| Website | ip |
Tensilica Inc. was a company based in Silicon Valley in the semiconductor intellectual property core business. It is now a part of Cadence Design Systems.
Tensilica offers customizable Xtensa microprocessor cores. Its product lineup includes HiFi audio/voice DSPs (digital signal processors) with a software library of over 225 codecs from Cadence and over 100 software partners, Vision DSPs designed for imaging, video, computer vision, and neural networks, and the ConnX family of baseband DSPs which includes models such as the dual-MAC ConnX D2 and the 64-MAC ConnX BBE64EP.[citation needed]
Tensilica was founded in 1997 by Chris Rowen (one of the founders of MIPS Technologies). It employed Earl Killian, who contributed to the MIPS architecture, as director of architecture.[1] On March 11, 2013, Cadence Design Systems announced its intent to buy Tensilica for approximately $380 million in cash.[2] Cadence completed the acquisition in April 2013, with a cash outlay at closing of approximately $326 million.[3]
- ^ "S-1 Supercomputer Alumni". Retrieved 2019-02-22.
Most recently he was chief architect at Tensilica working on configurable/extensible processors.
- ^ "Cadence to Acquire Tensilica."
- ^ Source: http://ip.cadence.com/news/432/330/Cadence-Reports-First-Quarter-2013-Financial-Results-and-Completes-Acquisition-of-Tensilica