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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. Tensillica

Advisors

Ashish Dixit
Vice President of Hardware Engineering
Tensilica

Ashish Dixit, Vice President of Hardware Engineering. Ashish joined Tensilica in early 1998. Previously he held numerous positions ranging from design engineer to director of engineering at Silicon Graphics, working on MIPS VLSI chip development. From 1983 to 1989 Ashish was a quality and reliability engineer as well as a logic design engineer at Intel Corporation. He has been issued eight patents related to configurable processors and memory management in RISC and CISC processors.