Tensilica Offers Free Diamond Core Software Development and Modeling Tools.SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Tensilica(R), Inc. today announced immediate availability of free evaluation versions of the Diamond Standard Software Toolkit, the advanced software development and modeling environment for the Diamond Standard processor core family, which was announced on February 20, 2006. The Toolkit is available for immediate download from Tensilica's web site at www.tensilica.com. "We're making our Diamond Toolkit available for free evaluation to prove to prospective customers how easy it is to immediately begin software profiling and code development for all six Diamond Standard processor and DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive cores," stated Steve Roddy, Tensilica's vice president of marketing. "This free download enables immediate evaluation of the Diamond Standard processors for suitability within a SOC (system-on-chip) design without a purchase commitment." Software and firmware engineers will want to explore the Diamond processor software development tools to learn how easy it is to port application code to the Diamond core processor family, and to experience the code performance and code size advantages of the Tensilica Xtensa instruction set architecture. Powerful visualization tools enable software developers to graphically view and compare profiling results. Hardware design teams will want to take advantage of this free evaluation to experiment with the clock-cycle accurate, pipeline-modeling instruction set simulator An Instruction Set Simulator (ISS) is a simulation model, usually, but by no means always, coded in a high-level language, which mimics the behavior of a mainframe or microprocessor by "reading" instructions and maintaining internal variables which represent the processor's and the associated performance modeling visualization views within the graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to that show pipeline activity, cache utilization rates, and cycles spent on bus cycle activity. The Diamond Standard Software Toolkit evaluation version includes Xtensa(R) Xplorer(TM) -- Diamond Edition, a comprehensive graphical user interface based on the popular Eclipse software environment. This user interface should be familiar and easy to navigate by most engineers. Xtensa Xplorer has been proven and refined for several years as the main user interface for Tensilica's Xtensa configurable processor family. The Diamond Standard Software Toolkit evaluation version also includes Tensilica's XCC XCC XML Commerce Connector (Commerce One, Inc.) XCC Expansion Cross-Connect (Module; Eastern Research) XCC Cross Country Competition XCC X.25 Control Center XCC X25 Control Center Compiler, an advanced C/C C/C Center to Center C/C Combustion Chamber C/C Command/Control C/C Crew Chief C/C cabin cruiser (US DoD) C/C chief complaint (medical) C/C Channel-to-Channel C/C Communication and Collaboration ++ compiler with inter-procedural analysis, advanced loop optimizations, ability to automatically vectorize code, feedback-directed compilation and profiling-based feedback compilation; a cycle-accurate instruction set simulator, a complete GNU-based tool-chain for debugging, assembling, and linking your programs, and software libraries for the six Diamond Standard controllers, CPUs and DSPs. About Tensilica Tensilica offers the broadest line of controller, CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. and specialty DSP processors on the market today, in both an off-the-shelf format via the Diamond Standard Series cores and with full designer configurability with the Xtensa processor family. Tensilica's low-power, benchmark proven processors have been designed into high-volume products at industry leaders in the digital consumer, networking and telecommunications markets. All Tensilica processor cores are complete with a matching software development tool environment, portfolio of system simulation models, and hardware implementation tool support. For more information on Tensilica's patented approach to the creation of application-specific building blocks for SOC design, visit www.tensilica.com. 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