Algotochip Press Releases
Algotochip Becomes Tensilica Design Center Partner
SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/25/13 -- Tensilica®, Inc. today announced that Algotochip has joined its Xtensions partner network and will offer design services that incorporate Tensilica's DPUs (dataplane processor units). Algotochip now has access to Tensilica's technology to help it market and deploy innovative solutions that will enable developers to get their Tensilica-based products to market faster.
"The digital solution we provide is unique to the individual customer and completely owned by that customer," said Didier Boivin, Algotochip's vice president of marketing. "Once we receive the C-code and test-vectors to verify it, Algotochip does all the work involved in creating a complete digital solution including all the necessary software and firmware for the Tensilica DPUs. The customer doesn't have to learn any new tools and can focus on the product specification and algorithms -- realizing the digital solution through our relationship."
Algotochip's patented approach can speed hardware and software design for SOCs (systems on chip) in as little as eight weeks. Algotochip guarantees that its SOC meets all the performance specifications made by the customers, and ensures that it will be right the first time."We are delighted to add Algotochip to our design center partner program," stated Chris Jones, Tensilica's director of product marketing. "They have extensive expertise in many areas of chip design and can help customers get their chips to market much faster."
About AlgotochipAlgotochip is the industry's first company to provide complete SOC GDSII from Algorithms written in behavioral C-code in weeks versus years with conventional design approach. The company's patented approach provides many direct benefits to the customer going from time to market to design cost to lower power through proprietary power aware architecture design. The company is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California, U.S.A. For additional information, please visit www.algotochip.com
About TensilicaTensilica, Inc. is the leader in dataplane processor IP core licensing with over 200 licensees. Dataplane processors (DPUs) combine the best capabilities of DSPs and CPUs while delivering 10 to 100x the performance because they can be optimized using Tensilica's automated design tools to meet specific and demanding signal processing performance targets. Tensilica's DPUs power SOC designs at system OEMs and seven out of the top 10 semiconductor companies for designs in mobile wireless, telecom and network infrastructure, computing and storage, and home and auto entertainment. Tensilica offers standard cores and hardware/software solutions that can be used as is or easily customized by semiconductor companies and OEMs for added differentiation. For more information on Tensilica's patented, benchmark-proven DPUs visit www.tensilica.com
Tensilica is a registered trademark belonging to Tensilica, Inc. All other company and product names mentioned are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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Semico Research & Algotochip Collaborate on Design Methodology Research
January 30, 2013 - Sunnyvale, CA - Algotochip, specialists in converting C models of algorithms directly to a complete SoC silicon IP, announced the availability of a research report from Semico Research that states the researchers belief “that the Algotochip design methodology offers a very good alternative to the current SoC design flows employed today.”
The semiconductor industry today is faced with several substantial issues—not the least of which are the continuing rise in design costs for SoCs (System-on-a-Chip), the decrease in the incidence of 1st time effort designs and the increase in the design cycle time against shrinking market windows and decreasing product lifetimes. An additional factor has now been added to SoC design costs with the emergence of the very complicated software applications intended to run on the SoC silicon. The costs of the software effort have outstripped the silicon design costs and have become the major part of the cost in most of these designs.
Although these problems may seem insurmountable, Semico believes that the Algotochip design methodology offers a very suitable alternative to the current SoC design flows employed today.
“Not only is Algotochip able to make the silicon design effort more efficient by reducing design cycle times and design costs,” said Richard Warzyniak, Senior Analyst. “Their design approach can offer customers the opportunity to have more designs completed in less time and for less money than competing alternatives.”
“Algotochip guarantees that its SoC meets all the performance specifications made by the customer, and insures that it will be first time right,” said Didier Boivin, VP marketing, Algotochip. “Given the increasingly complex nature of SoC designs, this guarantee means companies can deliver products more quickly and less expensively than previously thought possible.”
The report addresses several of the interrelated issues that impact SoC designs. Topics covered include how economic turmoil, raising design costs and unpredictable demand inhibit a company’s ability to deploy the latest innovations.
About Semico Research
Semico Research Corp is a semiconductor marketing and consulting research company located in Phoenix, Arizona. Semico was founded in 1994 by a group of semiconductor industry experts. We have improved the validity of semiconductor product forecasts via technology roadmaps in end-use markets. Semico offers custom consulting, portfolio packages, individual market research studies and premier industry conferences.
About Algotochip
Algotochip is the industry’s first company to provide complete SoC GDSII from Algorithms written in C-code in as little as 8 weeks. The company’s patented approach provides five direct benefits to the customer: 1) Algotochip enables the customer to realize the complete custom SoC from their C-code in a very short time. Algotochip fully supports industry standard ANSI C-code; 2) There is no need to license any 3rd party IP cores for the SoC nor pay royalties, as all the components of the SoC are custom designed for the user algorithm; 3) Algotochip enables the customer to quickly explore the potential area, power, and cost for envisioned products; 4) Algotochip enables the customer to explore different implementation choices in terms of process technology and fabrication houses; and 5) Algotochip achieves significantly lower power through proprietary power aware architecture design.
The company is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California, U.S.A. For additional information, please visit www.algotochip.com.
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Algotochip Joins ARM® Connected Community®
October 15, 2012 - Sunnyvale, CA - Algotochip today announced it is a new member in the ARM Connected Community, the industry’s largest ecosystem of ARM technology-based products and services. As part of the ARM Connected Community, Algotochip will gain access to a full range of resources to help it market and deploy innovative solutions that will enable developers to get their ARM Powered® products to market faster.
“Algotochip is pleased to help in reducing the customer’s overall design time on ARM processor-based devices” said Didier Boivin, VP Marketing, Algotochip. “Our proprietary Blue-Box™ technology uses the customer’s ANSI-C code to generate a complete foundry-ready device along with a matching application-specific firmware, enabling a customer's applications to run on a cost-effective, power efficient, custom hardware platform, in as little as eight weeks.”
The dream of directly translating a C-code description of an algorithm into a system-on-chip (SoC) has never been completely realized until now. Algotochip’s patented approach is the industry’s first complete C-code to GDSII solution for SoCs, ASICs, FPGAs or IP Blocks that covers all aspects of hardware and software design. Algotochip guarantees that its SoC meets all the performance specifications made by the customer, and insures that it will be right the first time.
The ARM Connected Community is a global network of companies aligned to provide a complete solution, from design to manufacture and end use, for products based on the ARM architecture. ARM offers a variety of resources to Community members, including promotional programs and peer-networking opportunities that enable a variety of ARM Partners to come together to provide end-to-end customer solutions. Visitors to the ARM Connected Community have the ability to contact members directly through the website.
“The Connected Community is all about companies working together to provide the most complete solutions in the shortest possible time. By joining the Community, which now comprises more than 950 companies, Algotochip increases the large portfolio of skills, products and services that are centered around the ARM architecture, and currently available to developers worldwide,” said Lori Kate Smith, Sr. Manager Community Programs for ARM.
For more information about the ARM Connected Community, please visit www.arm.com/community.
About AlgotochipAlgotochip is the industry’s first company to provide complete SoC GDSII from Algorithms written in behavioral C-code in as little as 8 weeks. The company’s patented approach provides many direct benefits to the customer going from time to market, to design cost, to lower power through proprietary power aware architecture design.
The company is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California, U.S.A. For additional information, please visit www.algotochip.com.
ARM and Connected Community are registered trademarks of ARM Limited. Cortex is a trademark of ARM Limited. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders. “ARM” is used to represent ARM Holdings plc; its operating company ARM Limited; and the regional subsidiaries: ARM, Inc.; ARM KK; ARM Korea Ltd.; ARM Taiwan Limited; ARM France SAS; ARM Consulting (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.; ARM Belgium N.V.; AXYS Design Automation Inc.; ARM Germany GmbH; ARM Embedded Technologies Pvt. Ltd.; ARM Norway, AS; and ARM Sweden AB.
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Algotochip Industry's First Company to Deliver Complete
SoC GDSII From C Models of Algorithms
Solution Delivers in 8 to 16 Weeks Depending on Design Complexity
April 24, 2012 - Sunnyvale, CA - Algotochip, specialists in converting C models of algorithms directly to a complete SoC silicon IP, today announced delivery of a SoC silicon solution for mimoOn's mi!MobilePHYTM (LTE UE PHY) reference chain. mimoOn, the definitive leader LTE software products for software defined radio (SDR) platforms, delivered fully functional reference code for the LTE UE PHY standard to Algotochip. Within a period of 12 weeks, Algotochip successfully completed the SoC GDSII for mimoOn's C-code.
"Based on this evaluation, we are very impressed with Algotochip's ability to deliver a complete GDSII solution from our LTE UE reference C-chain in a very short time-frame," said Peter Walther, VP of Sales at mimoOn. "We believe that Algotochip technology is a paradigm shift in the semiconductor industry and look forward to partnering with Algotochip on additional projects."
Algotochip received standard ANSI C-code and test vectors to simulate the code's functionality, from mimoOn. Based on these inputs, Algotochip successfully generated an optimal SoC for the C-code that is very efficient both in terms of scheduling and power. The silicon solution created by Algotochip included the following deliverables:
- A fully customized programmable micro-controller and programmable DSP along with the C compiler, assembler, linker and cycle accurate simulator and firmware for the programmable solution. All these are designed specifically for mimoOn's mi!MobilePHY C-code.
- A fully customized SoC with ideal HW/SW partitioning consisting of programmable, non-programmable and system-level solutions.
- A cycle-accurate simulator for the entire SoC and complete documentation.
- Fully synthesizable RTL, generated in Verilog for the entire SoC.
- A complete GDSII, based on mimoOn's mi!MobilePHY C-code, for multiple nanometer process nodes.
"The digital solution we provide to our customer is unique to that customer and completely owned by that customer," said Satish Padmanabhan, CTO Algotochip. "Once we receive the C-code and all test-vectors to verify it, Algotochip does all the work involved in creating a complete digital solution including all the necessary software and firmware for the SoC. The customer doesn't have to learn any new tools and can focus on the product specification and algorithms - realizing the digital solution through our relationship."
About mimoOn
mimoOn GmbH, headquartered in Duisburg, Germany, is a leading licensor of LTE Software IP for mobile devices & wireless infrastructure. mimoOn's portfolio of products includes LTE Physical Layer (PHY) software for mobile terminals and small cells (Pico/Femto) as well as small cell software for the Protocol Stack (L2/L3), advanced PHY algorithms on multi-core SDR platforms, SON, schedulers and radio resource management. mimoOn provides a complete porting optimization and verification service as well as a roadmap to future 3GPP releases. For more information, please visit http://www.mimoOn.de.
About Algotochip
Algotochip is the industry's first company to provide complete SoC GDSII from Algorithms written in C-code in as little as 8 weeks. The company's patented approach provides five direct benefits to the customer: 1) Algotochip enables the customer to realize the complete custom SoC from their C-code in a very short time. Algotochip fully supports industry standard ANSI C-code; 2) There is no need to license any 3rd party IP cores for the SoC nor pay royalties, as all the components of the SoC are custom designed for the user algorithm; 3) Algotochip enables the customer to quickly explore the potential area, power, and cost for envisioned products; 4) Algotochip enables the customer to explore different implementation choices in terms of process technology and fabrication houses; and 5) Algotochip achieves significantly lower power through proprietary power aware architecture design.
The company is privately held and based in Sunnyvale, California, U.S.A. For additional information, please visit www.algotochip.com.
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Donna Wilson, 510-744-1263
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