<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/2/15 lkcl luke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:luke.leighton@gmail.com">luke.leighton@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
ok, i spoke to tensilica today, just to give them a heads-up more than<br>
anything else.<br>
<br>
i found out that the base-band extensions (BB16) are veery<br>
application-specific, although staggeringly good: the inputs and<br>
outputs for the baseband DSP processing aren't connected to any caches<br>
or anything like that, so it would be a bugger to program.<br>
<br>
that just leaves the other optional functional units, and the option<br>
of either doing 32, 64 or 128-bit wide VLIW which would i think be<br>
both kinda fun and scary at the same time, but would get<br>
stinkingly-good performance for the power budget.<br>
<br>
also they very kindly pointed out that the entire toolset is<br>
downloadable (including the c / c++ compiler).<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
l.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div> There is also an effort to bring open source simulation of some of their processors by QEMU. Still no support of the VLIW extenstions, though.</div><div><br></div><div>
<a href="http://wiki.osll.spb.ru/doku.php?id=etc:users:jcmvbkbc:qemu-target-xtensa">http://wiki.osll.spb.ru/doku.php?id=etc:users:jcmvbkbc:qemu-target-xtensa</a></div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile Tesinlica's technology captured an impressive number of customers (AMD (ATI), NVIDIA, VIA). If you have Radeon graphics card, most probably you have Tensillica 's IP in it for the video decoder. </div>
<div><br></div><div><div><a href="http://www.tensilica.com/markets/customer-gallery/graphics.htm">http://www.tensilica.com/markets/customer-gallery/graphics.htm</a></div><div><a href="http://www.tensilica.com/news/172/330/NVIDIA-GoForce-5500-Employs-Tensilica-s-Xtensa-HiFi-2-Audio-Engine-for-High-Quality-Audio-in-Mobile-Phones.htm">http://www.tensilica.com/news/172/330/NVIDIA-GoForce-5500-Employs-Tensilica-s-Xtensa-HiFi-2-Audio-Engine-for-High-Quality-Audio-in-Mobile-Phones.htm</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.tensilica.com/news/373/330/VIA-Chooses-Tensilica-for-Solid-State-Drive-SSD-Chip-Design.htm">http://www.tensilica.com/news/373/330/VIA-Chooses-Tensilica-for-Solid-State-Drive-SSD-Chip-Design.htm</a></div>
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