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Tensilica to set up R&D center in Pune
By siliconindia staff writer
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Friday, 10 February 2006, 20:30 IST
BANGALORE: Tensilica Inc, a chip IP design firm announced the setting up of its Research and Development center in Pune with an investment of $40 million over five years.
Announcing this, Tensilicas President and CEO said, The facility can seat 50 engineers, who will work on the innovative configurable processor design methodology.
At present the company had an Offshore Design Center in partnership with an unnamed design services company in Pune. Rowen said, That helped us confirm that Pune was the right city and had the right quality of life and engineering talent for our projects.
Tensilica's processors go into complex system-on-chip designs of electronic products. The engineers will work on IDE development for multiprocessors, DSP algorithm development, instruction extension compiler, product testing and application engineering.
The company offers Xtensa range of processors as well as the software IDE for designing and programming the chip.