Partners

Arraycomm

ArrayComm is a leading provider of physical layer software (PHY) for 4G (LTE/LTE-A, Cat-M and NB-IoT) and 5G wireless communication systems. Together with ArrayComm’s rich experiences in providing system integration (with radio and L2/L3) and validation services to customers, ArrayComm's BasePort™ 4G/5G PHY has enabled customers around the world such as Fujitsu, NEC, Hitachi and Motorola to shorten time to market for their 4G/5G base stations significantly. ArrayComm BasePort™ PHY is field proven in tier-1 operator’s network.

http://www.arraycomm.com/

CommAgility

CommAgility is an award-winning developer of embedded signal processing and RF hardware and LTE PHY/stack software for 4G and 5G mobile network and related applications. CommAgility partnered with the Cadence Tensilica IP group to support customers’ 4G product development and is again working with Cadence to provide 5G expertise and IP to Cadence customers who are developing SoCs.

www.commagility.com

Galileo Satellite Navigation

Galileo’s software-based GNSS receiver is now available on Tensilica^® ConnX DSP IP cores. The GSN GNSS receiver running on a Cadence ConnX BBE16 DSP consumes very little power and has the ability to work in lower rates, or "snap-shots" for ultra-low-power mobile scenarios. The solution delivers high sensitivity tracking, offering a seamless GNSS experience in challenging environments.

http://galileo-nav.com/

Lekha Wireless

Lekha Wireless offers 3GPP based 4G and 5G Wireless Technology IP solutions on Tensilica DSPs. Release 14 compliant light weight CAT-NB1 UE solution is offered on Fusion F1 DSP and Release 15 compliant 5G gNB and UE reference solutions being integrated on to Tensilica BBExxEP family of DSPs. Lekha Wireless, with a strong and growing IP portfolio in Wireless Communication technologies, licenses target device based IP solutions integrated with RF to accelerate product development cycles.

www.lekhawireless.com

NextNav

NextNav provides advanced IoT geolocation solutions to IoT modem and DSP vendors. NextNavs patented, hybrid-signal technology significantly improves localization accuracy in critical indoor and dense urban environments while greatly reducing power consumption and solution footprint compared to existing solutions. NextNav solution has been ported to the Cadence Tensilica Fusion F1 DSP and was demonstrated at MWC 2019.

https://nextnav.com/

Imperas

Fast functional, instruction-accurate models of our processors can run on Open Virtual Platform- (OVP-) based virtual platforms. Wrapper files enabling integration of the processor models are now available for free download from the OVPworld.org website. These models will run with our TurboXim fast functional simulator, which simulates at speeds 40X to 80X faster than a traditional instruction set simulator.

Imperas's OVP wrappers for Tensilica cores use the built-in API in our simulation model for communication between the processor model and the OVP platform. The wrapper file is available now and downloadable free of charge at the OVP website: www.OVPworld.org.

https://www.imperas.com/

PolyCore

PolyCore Software, Inc., provides development tools and run-time solutions to simplify application development and improve development productivity for multicore, multi-processor architectures. Improvements in time to market, development costs, and risks are achieved through software reuse, easy-to-use development tools, and the generation of optimized runtime program elements. Design for today's architectures and run on tomorrow's architectures.

http://polycoresoftware.com/products

Synopsys

Cadence is an active member of the Synopsys System Level Catalyst program, ensuring interoperability between SystemC models of Tensilica processors and leading virtual platform tools such as Synopsys Virtualizer.

https://www.synopsys.com/

VLAB Works

VLAB Works delivers innovative electronic system simulation and virtual prototyping solutions for hardware, embedded software, and system developers. A business subsidiary of ASTC (Australian Semiconductor Technology Company), VWorks serves global markets and supply chains for automotive, transportation, communications, and multimedia embedded electronics and software. Both are headquartered in Adelaide, Australia, with over 100 staff, and offices in Australia, Europe, Japan, and North America. 

https://vlabworks.com/

Wind River

Wind River's Simics supports our processors. By virtualizing complex, mixed-architecture systems combined with features such as speed, checkpointing, reverse execution, and dynamic configuration, Simics allows engineers to adopt a virtualized systems development approach, resulting in faster product definition, development, and deployment.

https://www.windriver.com/company/

DTS Insight

DTS Insight offers the adviceXross JTAG Emulator for Tensilica's processors. The adviceXross JTAG Emulator is a robust development system. The adviceXross JTAG emulator and microVIEW-Xross GUI-based emulation debugger are now available. The adviceXross device is used in conjunction with the microVIEW-Xross software debugger. Details on the adviceXross product are available on DTS Insight's web site.

https://www.dts-insight.co.jp/en/corporate/index.html

FTDI Chip

FTDI Chip develops innovative silicon solutions that enhance interaction with the latest in global technology. The major objective from the company is to ‘bridge technologies’ in order to support engineers with highly sophisticated, feature-rich, robust and simple-to-use product platforms. These platforms enable creation of electronic designs with high performance, low peripheral component requirements, low power budgets and minimal board real estate.

https://www.ftdichip.com

Lauterbach

Lauterbach supports Cadence's processors with its TRACE32 PowerView microprocessor debugger. The PowerDebug in-circuit debugger is a high-performance JTAG debugger. The PowerDebug's hardware consists of a universal debug module that can be connected to any PC or workstation via a USB 2.x or Ethernet interface. The PowerView software supports multicore debugging. Graphical variable displays and dedicated commands to handle large arrays support the development of DSP-specific code. The combination of the debugger and the PowerProbe logic analyzer enables real-time measurements.

https://www.lauterbach.com/frames.html?home.html

Segger

With the experience in programming efficiently on embedded systems, SEGGER Microcontroller has created highly integrated, cost-effective programming and development tools, such as the Flasher (stand-alone flash programmer) and the industry leading J‑Link/J‑Trace debug probe. SEGGER’s J-Link is the most popular family of debug probes on the market. It is tool chain independent and supports free GDB-based tool chains as well as commercial IDEs. J-Link covers all market leading CPU families.

http://www.segger.com/

Sohwa & Sophia

EJSCATT is a JTAG debugger development tool for general-purpose embedded CPUs. Support for Xtensa single core and multi core is available by purchasing and installing the corresponding WATCHPOINT Debugger software. Multi-core processor designs, such as Xtensa+ Arm^®, etc., are also supported.

http://www.ss-technologies.co.jp/index.html

Tincan Tools

Tin Can Tools was founded to respond to a need in the marketplace for high performance embedded tools and support boards. We design leading edge products but give you the ability to add features for your specific application. The Flyswatter2 from Tin Can Tools is a high speed JTAG in-circuit debugger and programmer that supports JTAG debugging of Tensilica processors via the Cadence xt-gdb command-line tool or Xtensa Xplorer IDE.

https://www.tincantools.com/about-us/

MATLAB^® is a programming environment for algorithm development, data analysis, visualization, and numeric computation. Simulink^® is a block diagram environment for simulation and model-based design of multidomain and embedded engineering systems. Engineers and scientists worldwide rely on these MathWorks product families to accelerate the pace of discovery, innovation, and development in automotive, aerospace, communications, electronics, industrial automation, and other industries. Hardware support packages from Cadence enable MATLAB and Simulink to generate code that is optimized for Tensilica DSPs, facilitating algorithm development, simulation, and implementation for efficient processing.

Tensilica DSP Code Generation Toolbox

Azure RTOS

Azure RTOS is an embedded development suite including a small but powerful operating system that provides reliable, ultra-fast performance for resource-constrained devices. It’s easy-to-use and market-proven, having been deployed on more than 6.2 billion devices worldwide. Azure RTOS supports the most popular 32-bit microcontrollers and embedded development tools, so you can make the most of your team’s existing skills. 

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/rtos/

FreeRTOS

FreeRTOS^TM is a fully deterministic, commercial-grade, stable, and reliable RTOS that is 100 percent free to use. The kernel is open source, but all application code can remain closed source and proprietary. FreeRTOS runs on all Xtensa processors.

https://www.freertos.org/

Linux

Tensilica Xtensa architecture support is included in the general Linux distribution and is maintained by Cadence. Learn how to get and build Linux for an Xtensa processor at www.linux-xtensa.org.

www.linux-xtensa.org.

Micrium

Micrium's uC/OS-II is a portable, ROMable, scalable, preemptive, real-time deterministic multitasking kernel for microprocessors and microcontrollers. uC/OS-II is provided with all source code, which is 100% portable ANSI C. Easily scaled because of the modular nature of the source code, uC/OS-II can present a very small footprint for space-constrained designs. Micrium offers expanded support to take advantage of all configuration options on Xtensa® customizable processors

https://weston-embedded.com/micrium/overview

SAFERTOS^®

SAFERTOS^® is a pre-certified safety Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) for embedded processors. It delivers superior performance and pre-certified dependability, whilst utilizing minimal resources. SAFERTOS is available pre-certified to IEC 61508 SIL 3 and to ISO 26262 ASIL D, and supports FDA 510(k) submissions and IEC 62304 certification. SAFERTOS is used worldwide in automotive, medical, and industrial applications.

https://www.highintegritysystems.com/safertos/

Siemens

Siemens delivers embedded software solutions that enable device manufacturers to quickly design and build high quality connected devices, including those with rich user interfaces, cloud-based remote management, or requiring safety certification. Base technologies include Linux, the Nucleus real-time operating system, advanced multicore runtime and IoT enablement and development tools.

https://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/global/en/products/embedded/

Zephyr

The Zephyr OS is a modular, scalable platform designed for connected, resource-strained devices such as IoT. Zephyr OS is free software distributed under the Apache 2.0 open source license. It's an open, transparent community project managed by the Linux Foundation.

https://www.zephyrproject.org/

ComplexIQ

ComplexIQ has extensive expertise in MoCA (Multimedia over Coax Alliance) networking design and has already optimized Xtensa processors for integration with its MoCA network interface IP blocks.

http://complexiq.com/

Dream Chip

Dream Chip Technologies is a German engineering company supporting its European customers with SoC, FPGA, and embedded software designs for the consumer, industrial, and automotive industries. DCT has a strong record in image and video processing developments.

https://www.dreamchip.de/company.html

Mega Chips

As an authorized design center, MegaChips offers SoC design services in Japan. MegaChips offers expertise in the design of video and imaging products as well as communications products.

https://megachips.com/announcements/

Methods2Business

Methods2Business is a European design center building the next generation semiconductor Intellectual Property (IP) products for Wi-Fi™ communication in modern electronic devices. The company focuses on MAC layers for Wi-Fi™ 802.11 technology and provides a scalable Wi-Fi HaLow 802.11ah platform based on the Cadence® Tensilica® Fusion F1 DSP. Methods2Business is headquartered in Eindhoven, the Netherlands and has an engineering team in Novi Sad, region Vojvodina in Serbia.

http://www.methods2business.com/blog

Siemens

Siemens EDA Services boast a track record of success in improving productivity and mitigating risk in our customers' design and verification flows. Delivered by highly experienced global teams, each offering is designed to maximize both the business and technical success of your project.

https://eda.sw.siemens.com/en-US/consulting-services

TSMC

Through TSMC's IP Alliance Partner program, we have validated the Xtensa processor in silicon. This ensures the best possible design experience, easiest design reuse, and fastest integration into the overall system design. We continue to work closely with TSMC to target next-generation process technologies.

https://www.tsmc.com/english

Zoro

ZORO provides embedded software engineering services from concept and specification to implementation and integration. The company has in-depth knowledge in many embedded domains including networking, processors, and controller firmware & software development on various real-time operating systems.

https://www.zoro-sw.com/