IBEX Becomes Tensilica Authorized Design Center

– Tensilica, Inc. today announced that IBEX Technology Co., Ltd. (IBEX) has become an authorized Tensilica design center. Headquartered in Kawasaki, Japan, IBEX has a strong background in advanced multimedia technology, including MPEG-4, MPEG-2, and H.264. As a Tensilica authorized design center, IBEX will support Xtensa configurable processor customers.

“We became a Tensilica authorized design center because we were impressed with the way that the Xtensa configurable processor can be optimized for multimedia applications,” stated Toshikazu Morita, managing director of LSI Engineering Division, of IBEX. “Often, multimedia is delivered in bit streams that are inefficient for standard 32-bit processors. But Xtensa processors can handle the data with ease.”
“We are pleased to offer our customers the expertise of the IBEX engineering staff in multi-media applications,” stated Steve Roddy, Tensilica’s vice president of Marketing. “Their extensive experience, particularly in emerging video applications, should be of great assistance as our customers are designing exciting new products.”

About IBEX

IBEX Technology Co., Ltd. is a proposal-oriented design center, which incorporates the latest multimedia technology, conducts research and development of dedicated LSIs, and provides system solutions. We are a highly competitive engineering group, which develops algorithms and architectures optimized for LSIs for advanced and complex information processing. As a fab-less company that creates high-integration LSI with original architecture, IBEX will continue to transmit advanced technology that is on par with Silicon Valley. For more information, please visit www.ibextech.jp

About Tensilica

Tensilica, Inc. is the recognized leader in configurable processor technology and has leveraged that technology to become the leading supplier of licensable controllers and DSP cores for mobile audio and video applications. Tensilica offers the broadest line of controller, CPU, network, and specialty DSP processors in the market today – including full software tool-chain and modeling support - in both, an off-the-shelf format via the Diamond Standard Series cores and with full designer configurability with the Xtensa processor family. The modern design behind all of Tensilica’s processor cores provides semiconductor companies and system OEMs with the lowest power, smallest area solutions for high-volume products including mobile phones and other consumer electronics, networking and telecommunications equipment, and computer peripherals. For more information on Tensilica’s patented, benchmark-proven processors,, visit www.tensilica.com