Wipro Becomes Tensilica Processor Core Design Center Partner.SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Wipro Technologies, the global IT Services arm of Wipro Limited (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :WIT) is Tensilica's newest processor core design center partner. As a Tensilica[R] design center and Tensilica Xtensions[TM] Network partner, Wipro will combine its extensive intellectual property (IP) portfolio, systems knowledge, architecture modeling and verification expertise with system-on-chip (SOC) design services for customers using Tensilica's Xtensa[R] configurable processors or Diamond Standard processor cores. "Our advanced algorithm group has been actively evaluating processors to address the low-cost, enhanced computing requirements of applications in the biometric space, such as fingerprint recognition/matching," said Madhu Parthasarathy, general manager, 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 & Multimedia Applications, Wipro Technologies. "The Tensilica Diamond processor series meet the requirements and also offers the added advantage of a logically scalable path to extend our algorithms to a wider range of applications that our HW-SW architecture group and the HW acceleration service lines view as essential to cater to the complex SOC requirements in the future." "Wipro has been executing complex SOC designs for the last 10 years, particularly those employing intellectual property from a number of sources," stated Steve Roddy, Tensilica's vice president of marketing. "As a design services organization that delivers more than 50 SOC designs a year, Wipro will be equipped to help our customers with a wide variety of design services." As one of the largest independent third party design services providers in the world, Wipro's VLSI VLSI: see integrated circuit. (1) (Very Large Scale Integration) Between 100,000 and one million transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, LSI and ULSI. (2) (VLSI Technology, Inc., Tempe, AZ, www.semiconductors. and System Design business unit offer end to end solutions in the VLSI domain, meeting critical time to market demands of its customers with design reliability and scalability. This team handles projects across the entire design chain starting from defining the architecture through (or to) end product realization. These include high-end ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. development, complex FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. and board designs, turnkey system designs and core technology IP blocks along with porting and optimizing complex algorithms and audio/video codecs to a wide range of DSP architectures. About Wipro Wipro Technologies, a division of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT), is the first PCMM PCMM People Capability Maturity Model PCMM Packet Cable Multi-Media Level 5 and SEI CMM Level 5 certified IT Services organization globally. Wipro is one of the largest product engineering and support service providers worldwide. Wipro provides comprehensive research and development services, IT solutions and services, including systems integration, Information Systems outsourcing, package implementation, software application development and maintenance services to corporations globally. In the Indian market, Wipro is a leader in providing IT solutions and services for the corporate segment in India offering system integration, network integration, software solutions and IT services. Wipro also has a profitable presence in niche market segments of consumer products and lighting. In the Asia Pacific and Middle East markets, Wipro provides IT solutions and services for global corporations. Wipro's ADS' are listed on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. , and its equity shares are listed in India on the Stock Exchange - Mumbai, and the National Stock Exchange. For more information, please visit www.wipro.com or http://www.wiprocorporate.com. 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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