Tensilica Processor Cores Enable Sensor Fusion For Robust Perception

Tensilica Processor Cores Enable Sensor Fusion For Robust Perception
by Kalar Rajendiran on 06-22-2023 at 6:00 am

Tensilica DSPs

While sensor-based control and activation systems have been around for several decades, the development and integration of sensors into control systems have significantly evolved over time. Early sensor-based control systems utilized basic sensing elements like switches, potentiometers and pressure sensors and were … Read More


Functional Safety for Automotive IP

Functional Safety for Automotive IP
by Daniel Payne on 12-15-2022 at 10:00 am

functional safety in automotive electronics

Automotive engineers are familiar with the ISO 26262 standard, as it defines a process for developing functional safety in electronic systems, where human safety is preserved as all of the electronic components are operating correctly and reliably.  Automotive electronics have now grown to cover dozens of applications, and… Read More


Designing Ultra-Low-Power, Always On IP

Designing Ultra-Low-Power, Always On IP
by Daniel Payne on 05-09-2022 at 10:00 am

processor and sensor trends min

It’s popular to use DSP chips for vision processing in diverse applications like ADAS, security cameras and AR. Tensilica has been designing DSP chips and IP since 1997, and their technology was successful enough that Cadence acquired Tensilica back in 2013. At the IP-SoC Silicon Valley 2022 event in April I had the pleasure… Read More


Tensilica Edge Advances at Linley

Tensilica Edge Advances at Linley
by Bernard Murphy on 05-04-2022 at 6:00 am

NNE graphic min

The Linley spring conference this year had a significant focus on AI at the edge, with all that implies. Low power/energy is a key consideration, though increasing performance demands for some applications are making this more challenging. David Bell (Product Marketing at Tensilica, Cadence) presented the Tensilica NNE110… Read More


Battery Sipping HiFi DSP Offers Always-On Sensor Fusion

Battery Sipping HiFi DSP Offers Always-On Sensor Fusion
by Tom Simon on 11-11-2021 at 10:00 am

HiFi DSP

Earbuds are one of the fastest growing market segments, which is creating the need for audio DSPs with higher performance and a smaller energy footprint. More than just being wireless speakers – earbuds, and wearables for that matter, have become a sophisticated extension of the user interface of phones and laptops, etc.… Read More


CadenceTECHTALK: Power and Energy Optimization Using Tensilica IP

CadenceTECHTALK: Power and Energy Optimization Using Tensilica IP
by Admin on 11-01-2021 at 2:57 pm

Power and Energy Optimization Using Tensilica IP

November 17, 2021

Overview

Design teams are facing the challenges of having to add more and more processing and programmable capabilities in their SoC in order to adapt and implement the latest and greatest algorithms during the lifecycle of their products, but at the same time

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On-Device Tensilica AI Platform For AI SoCs

On-Device Tensilica AI Platform For AI SoCs
by Kalar Rajendiran on 10-05-2021 at 6:00 am

Varying On Device AI Requirements 1

During his keynote address at the CadenceLIVE 2021 conference, CEO Lip-Bu Tan made some market trend comments. He observed that most of the data nowadays is generated at the edge but only 20% is processed there. He predicted that by 2030, 80% of data is expected to be processed at the edge. And most of this 80% will be processed on edge… Read More


Cadence Tensilica FloatingPoint DSPs

Cadence Tensilica FloatingPoint DSPs
by Kalar Rajendiran on 07-15-2021 at 10:00 am

Tensilica FP DSPs

Being engrossed in the digital information world, it is easy to forget that the real world is comprised of mostly analog signals and data. Digital Signal Processors (DSP) take digitized forms of these worldly signals and manipulate them mathematically. Although floating-point is a more relevant and accurate way of representing… Read More


How does TensorFlow Lite on Tensilica HiFi DSP IP Sound?

How does TensorFlow Lite on Tensilica HiFi DSP IP Sound?
by Tom Simon on 04-22-2020 at 6:00 am

TensorFlow Lite Needed for Audio

In all the hubbub about AI/ML, it’s easy to see why visual ML gets more attention. It’s got appeal because of applications such as autonomous driving. Because of this it’s easy to overlook the importance of audio ML. I own a Tesla and putting it into autopilot is very cool, but even it has voice recognition built in as an important feature… Read More