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News Release from: Tensilica
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 23 October 2006
Configurability is key for Chinese SoC
designers
NuFront Software of Beijing, China, is designing a complex SoC using Tensilica's Xtensa configurable processor.
NuFront Software of Beijing, China, is designing a complex SoC using Tensilica's Xtensa configurable processor NuFront is a leading design firm specialising in SoC designs for China's digital television products
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 30 Mar 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The company is developing a baseband DSP (digital signal processor) for China's Mobile TV handset standard, and is using the Xtensa processor because it can be optimised for the performance required.
"Tensilica's Xtensa processor was very attractive for our next design because standard processor cores couldn't give us the performance we needed", stated Hamilton Yong, COO, NuFront Software.
"The only way to get the performance was to optimise the processor, and Tensilica is the only company with the automated tools to make that customisation much easier and ensure our success".
"The move to a Mobile TV standard in China could represent a major change in handset baseband processor design as well as a potential shake-up in the conventional architecture of the handsets", stated Steve Roddy, Tensilica's Vice President of Marketing.
"NuFront's engineers are up for this challenge and have quickly embraced the power of the Xtensa processor architecture with its automated process for adding custom instructions to the processor".
Tensilica's Xtensa processors are configurable, extensible and synthesisable.
Using automated Xtensa technology, the system designer moulds the processor to fit the application by selecting and configuring predefined elements of the architecture and by inventing completely new TIE (Tensilica Instruction Extension) instructions and hardware execution units that can deliver performance levels orders of magnitude faster than alternative solutions.
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