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Why Cadence Agreed to Acquire Tensilica - And How It Can Change SoC DesignIndustry Insights Blog - Richard Goering , CadenceMar. 18, 2013 |
On March 11, 2013, Cadence announced an agreement to acquire Tensilica, a successful provider and market leader in dataplane processing IP. By providing a more complete solution for system-on-chip (SoC) design, the acquisition will facilitate a new generation of highly differentiated, low-power, high-performance SoCs that can be brought to market quickly.
To appreciate the significance of the pending acquisition, it's important to understand where and how Tensilica fits into the SoC design ecosystem. Tensilica pioneered the development of highly specialized, programmable dataplane IP that works synergistically with industry-standard embedded CPU architectures. These specialized IP cores, called Xtensa® Dataplane Processing Units (DPUs), support a wide range of embedded data and signal processing applications in the dataplane, allowing customers to quickly develop SoCs optimized for their applications.
