Design centre in Arizona helps customers with SoC

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Mar 13, 2007

System on chip provider appoints design centre partner to help customers with their specific products

Tensilica has announced that Tallika of Mesa, Arizona, is now an authorised Design Centre partner for customers using the Xtensa configurable processor in their system-on-chip (SOC) designs.

Tallika offers concept-to-production professional services serving OEMs in networking, consumer, storage and computing markets as well as digital and mixed-signal semiconductor companies.

"Tallika's expertise in micro-architecture design, information security, embedded software and verification will be very appealing to our customers", stated Steve Roddy, Tensilica's vice president of marketing.

"They specialise in engagements with start-up companies in emerging markets, and provide years of valuable expertise to speed these companies through their SOC design experience".

Tallika's design services are complemented by its silicon proven IP portfolio.

For example, Tallika's Silicon Proven Secure SOC Prototyping Platform is based on Xilinx Virtex4 family and includes AES 128/192/256 (various modes), SHA-1/SHA-256/MD5/HMAC-SHA1/HMAC-SHA256, TDES, link-list DMA controller connected to AHB back-bone along with 2048bit native Exponentiation engine on the APB bus.

The platform comes with full software library/API for security functions as well as public-key cryptography functions such as RSA-encrypt, RSA-decrypt, RSA-generate etc.

The platform's applications include digital rights management, hardware authentication, secure media access, VPN/SSL acceleration, etc.

"Tensilica's Xtensa configurable processors are ideal for a number of our customers' application-specific designs because they can be tailored precisely for the application at hand", stated Hemi Bhatnagar, President and CEO, Tallika.

"Our team specialises in concept-to-system engagements, with a methodology designed to generate production-worthy first silicon and corresponding system level prototypes/software implementation".

"With our well-established embedded software and ASIC development centers in Chennai (India) and Phoenix, Arizona, we now offer high quality, cost-effective development solutions to our customers - including embedded software development, RTL, verification and physical design".