Fraunhofer IIS Becomes Tensilica Authorized Design Center Partner

Erlangen, Germany and Santa Clara, CA USA - September 27, 2011 - Tensilica, Inc. today announced that Fraunhofer IIS, the world's renowned source for audio and multimedia technologies, has joined Tensilica's Xtensions partner network and become an authorized design center.  Fraunhofer IIS will support mutual customers with their audio-related SOC (system-on-chip) designs.

"Fraunhofer IIS is a valuable design center partner because of their domain knowledge and focus in audio signal processing technology and receiver and broadcasting systems," stated Larry Przywara, Tensilica's senior director of multimedia marketing.  "In particular, Fraunhofer has deep expertise in digital radio systems including DRM, DAB, Satellite Radio and DVB-SH, as well as audio coding standards development including MP3, AAC and related MPEG codecs and post processing algorithms."

"We look forward to working closely with Tensilica and the wide customer base using Tensilica's HiFi Audio DSPs, especially for home entertainment, automotive and mobile multimedia," stated Marc Gayer, head of Embedded Audio at Fraunhofer IIS. "Tensilica's HiFi Audio DSP architecture is extremely efficient with industry best area and power requirements."

About Fraunhofer IIS

The Fraunhofer IIS Audio and Multimedia division, based in Erlangen, Germany, has been working in compressed audio technology for more than 20 years and remains a leading innovator of technologies for cutting-edge multimedia systems. Fraunhofer IIS is the main inventor of mp3 and universally credited with the co-development of AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) as well as technologies for the media world of tomorrow, including MPEG Surround and the Fraunhofer Audio Communication Engine.

Through the course of more than two decades, Fraunhofer IIS has licensed its audio codec software and application-specific customizations to at least 1,000 companies. Fraunhofer estimates that it has enabled more than 1 billion commercial products worldwide using its mp3, AAC and other media technologies.

The Fraunhofer IIS organization is part of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, based in Munich, Germany. Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is Europe's largest applied research organization and is partly funded by the German government. With 18,000 employees worldwide, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is composed of 60 Institutes conducting research in a broad range of research areas. For more information, contact Matthias Rose, matthias.rose@iis.fraunhofer.de, or visit www.iis.fraunhofer.de/amm.

About Tensilica

Tensilica, Inc. is the leader in customizable dataplane processor IP cores. Dataplane processors combine the best capabilities of DSP and CPU while delivering 10 to 100x the performance because they can be optimized using Tensilica's automated design tools to meet specific signal processing performance targets. Tensilica's DPUs  power SOC designs at system OEMs and six out of the top 10 semiconductor companies for products including mobile phones, consumer electronics devices (including digital TV, Blu-ray Disc players, broadband set top boxes, digital still cameras and portable media players), computers,storage, networking, wireless base station and communications equipment. For more information on Tensilica's patented, benchmark-proven DPUs visit www.tensilica.com.