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Tensilica Introduces Pre-Configured Cores By BDTI, 3/20/2006 Last month Tensilica announced a new line of licensable processor cores called the Diamond Standard family.  The family includes six cores that span a wide range of performance points.  These cores are essentially fixed, pre-configured versions of the Xtensa architecture. (More)

Managing Offshore Software Development By BDTI, 3/20/2006 Increasingly, processor vendors need to deliver extensive software libraries optimized for their processors.  To meet these software needs, many processor vendors are attracted to offshore software development firms due to their low cost.  But this solution is not without its challenges. (More)

Jeff Bier’s Impulse Response – Bamboozling with Benchmarks, Part 2 By Jeff Bier, 3/20/2006 In last month’s column, I listed four of the Top Ten ways in which processor benchmark results are commonly misused.  This month I'll cover the remaining six.   If you rely on benchmark results, you'll want to watch out for these. (More)

TI to Sell Software to the Mass Market By BDTI, 3/1/2006 This month Texas Instruments announced that it will begin selling multimedia codecs to the mass market.  The codecs will be available for both the ‘C64x and the ‘C64x+ platforms, including chips that use the “DaVinci” architecture. TI will also offer audio codecs for the ‘C55x architecture. (More)