Operating Systems
Azure RTOS
Azure RTOS is an embedded development suite including a small but powerful operating system that provides reliable, ultra-fast performance for resource-constrained devices. It’s easy-to-use and market-proven, having been deployed on more than 6.2 billion devices worldwide. Azure RTOS supports the most popular 32-bit microcontrollers and embedded development tools, so you can make the most of your team’s existing skills.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/rtos/
FreeRTOS
FreeRTOSTM is a fully deterministic, commercial-grade, stable, and reliable RTOS that is 100 percent free to use. The kernel is open source, but all application code can remain closed source and proprietary. FreeRTOS runs on all Xtensa processors.
Linux
Tensilica Xtensa architecture support is included in the general Linux distribution and is maintained by Cadence. Learn how to get and build Linux for an Xtensa processor at www.linux-xtensa.org.
Zephyr
The Zephyr OS is a modular, scalable platform designed for connected, resource-strained devices such as IoT. Zephyr OS is free software distributed under the Apache 2.0 open source license. It's an open, transparent community project managed by the Linux Foundation.
https://www.zephyrproject.org/
Micrium
Micrium's uC/OS-II is a portable, ROMable, scalable, preemptive, real-time deterministic multitasking kernel for microprocessors and microcontrollers. uC/OS-II is provided with all source code, which is 100% portable ANSI C. Easily scaled because of the modular nature of the source code, uC/OS-II can present a very small footprint for space-constrained designs. Micrium offers expanded support to take advantage of all configuration options on Xtensa® customizable processors
https://weston-embedded.com/micrium/overview
Siemens
Siemens delivers embedded software solutions that enable device manufacturers to quickly design and build high quality connected devices, including those with rich user interfaces, cloud-based remote management, or requiring safety certification. Base technologies include Linux, the Nucleus real-time operating system, advanced multicore runtime and IoT enablement and development tools.
https://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/global/en/products/embedded/
SAFERTOS®
SAFERTOS® is a pre-certified safety Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) for embedded processors. It delivers superior performance and pre-certified dependability, whilst utilizing minimal resources. SAFERTOS is available pre-certified to IEC 61508 SIL 3 and to ISO 26262 ASIL D, and supports FDA 510(k) submissions and IEC 62304 certification. SAFERTOS is used worldwide in automotive, medical, and industrial applications.
Silicon & Services
Methods2Business
Methods2Business is a European design center building the next generation semiconductor Intellectual Property (IP) products for Wi-Fi™ communication in modern electronic devices. The company focuses on MAC layers for Wi-Fi™ 802.11 technology and provides a scalable Wi-Fi HaLow 802.11ah platform based on the Cadence® Tensilica® Fusion F1 DSP. Methods2Business is headquartered in Eindhoven, the Netherlands and has an engineering team in Novi Sad, region Vojvodina in Serbia.
http://www.methods2business.com/blog
Siemens
Siemens EDA Services boast a track record of success in improving productivity and mitigating risk in our customers' design and verification flows. Delivered by highly experienced global teams, each offering is designed to maximize both the business and technical success of your project.
https://eda.sw.siemens.com/en-US/consulting-services
Dream Chip
Dream Chip Technologies is a German engineering company supporting its European customers with SoC, FPGA, and embedded software designs for the consumer, industrial, and automotive industries. DCT has a strong record in image and video processing developments.
https://www.dreamchip.de/company.html
Mega Chips
As an authorized design center, MegaChips offers SoC design services in Japan. MegaChips offers expertise in the design of video and imaging products as well as communications products.
https://megachips.com/announcements/
Intrinsix
Intrinsix is a SoC design center partner with headquarters in the Boston area. Intrinsix's business engagements range from complete turnkey electronic product designs, to subsystem designs, SoCs, embedded systems, individual ASICs, or FPGAs. The company has insourcing and outsourcing engagements.
https://www.intrinsix.com/about-us
ComplexIQ
ComplexIQ has extensive expertise in MoCA (Multimedia over Coax Alliance) networking design and has already optimized Xtensa processors for integration with its MoCA network interface IP blocks.
Rianta Solutions
Rianta Solutions Inc. supplies high quality PPA IP Cores, VIP and Services for ASICs and SoCs. Rianta IP products and services are targeted to Ethernet, Security and Deep Learning Acceleration. Our expert Design and Verification services teams have a proven track record with a variety of domain knowledge at the most advanced technology nodes.
https://www.riantasolutions.com/
TSMC
Through TSMC's IP Alliance Partner program, we have validated the Xtensa processor in silicon. This ensures the best possible design experience, easiest design reuse, and fastest integration into the overall system design. We continue to work closely with TSMC to target next-generation process technologies.
Zoro
ZORO provides embedded software engineering services from concept and specification to implementation and integration. The company has in-depth knowledge in many embedded domains including networking, processors, and controller firmware & software development on various real-time operating systems.
Hardware Prototyping, Emulation and Probes
Macraigor Systems
Macraigor Systems LLC is an OEM supplier of BDM and JTAG connection devices, including the Wiggler product, which provides a very low-cost, yet full-featured connection to the on-chip debug facilities of 32-bit embedded processors. The Wiggler, USB2 Demon, and USB2 Wiggler solutions are available for our processors.
http://macraigor.com/default.html
Lauterbach
Lauterbach supports Cadence's processors with its TRACE32 PowerView microprocessor debugger. The PowerDebug in-circuit debugger is a high-performance JTAG debugger. The PowerDebug's hardware consists of a universal debug module that can be connected to any PC or workstation via a USB 2.x or Ethernet interface. The PowerView software supports multicore debugging. Graphical variable displays and dedicated commands to handle large arrays support the development of DSP-specific code. The combination of the debugger and the PowerProbe logic analyzer enables real-time measurements.
https://www.lauterbach.com/frames.html?home.html
FTDI Chip
FTDI Chip develops innovative silicon solutions that enhance interaction with the latest in global technology. The major objective from the company is to ‘bridge technologies’ in order to support engineers with highly sophisticated, feature-rich, robust and simple-to-use product platforms. These platforms enable creation of electronic designs with high performance, low peripheral component requirements, low power budgets and minimal board real estate.
DTS Insight
DTS Insight offers the adviceXross JTAG Emulator for Tensilica's processors. The adviceXross JTAG Emulator is a robust development system. The adviceXross JTAG emulator and microVIEW-Xross GUI-based emulation debugger are now available. The adviceXross device is used in conjunction with the microVIEW-Xross software debugger. Details on the adviceXross product are available on DTS Insight's web site.
https://www.dts-insight.co.jp/en/corporate/index.html
Segger
With the experience in programming efficiently on embedded systems, SEGGER Microcontroller has created highly integrated, cost-effective programming and development tools, such as the Flasher (stand-alone flash programmer) and the industry leading J‑Link/J‑Trace debug probe. SEGGER’s J-Link is the most popular family of debug probes on the market. It is tool chain independent and supports free GDB-based tool chains as well as commercial IDEs. J-Link covers all market leading CPU families.
Tincan Tools
Tin Can Tools was founded to respond to a need in the marketplace for high performance embedded tools and support boards. We design leading edge products but give you the ability to add features for your specific application. The Flyswatter2 from Tin Can Tools is a high speed JTAG in-circuit debugger and programmer that supports JTAG debugging of Tensilica processors via the Cadence xt-gdb command-line tool or Xtensa Xplorer IDE.
https://www.tincantools.com/about-us/
Sohwa & Sophia
EJSCATT is a JTAG debugger development tool for general-purpose embedded CPUs. Support for Xtensa single core and multi core is available by purchasing and installing the corresponding WATCHPOINT Debugger software. Multi-core processor designs, such as Xtensa+ Arm®, etc., are also supported.
EDA & ESL
Imperas
Fast functional, instruction-accurate models of our processors can run on Open Virtual Platform- (OVP-) based virtual platforms. Wrapper files enabling integration of the processor models are now available for free download from the OVPworld.org website. These models will run with our TurboXim fast functional simulator, which simulates at speeds 40X to 80X faster than a traditional instruction set simulator.
Imperas's OVP wrappers for Tensilica cores use the built-in API in our simulation model for communication between the processor model and the OVP platform. The wrapper file is available now and downloadable free of charge at the OVP website: www.OVPworld.org.
Synopsys
Cadence is an active member of the Synopsys System Level Catalyst program, ensuring interoperability between SystemC models of Tensilica processors and leading virtual platform tools such as Synopsys Virtualizer.
PolyCore
PolyCore Software, Inc., provides development tools and run-time solutions to simplify application development and improve development productivity for multicore, multi-processor architectures. Improvements in time to market, development costs, and risks are achieved through software reuse, easy-to-use development tools, and the generation of optimized runtime program elements. Design for today's architectures and run on tomorrow's architectures.
http://polycoresoftware.com/products
Wind River
Wind River's Simics supports our processors. By virtualizing complex, mixed-architecture systems combined with features such as speed, checkpointing, reverse execution, and dynamic configuration, Simics allows engineers to adopt a virtualized systems development approach, resulting in faster product definition, development, and deployment.
https://www.windriver.com/company/
VLAB Works
VLAB Works delivers innovative electronic system simulation and virtual prototyping solutions for hardware, embedded software, and system developers. A business subsidiary of ASTC (Australian Semiconductor Technology Company), VWorks serves global markets and supply chains for automotive, transportation, communications, and multimedia embedded electronics and software. Both are headquartered in Adelaide, Australia, with over 100 staff, and offices in Australia, Europe, Japan, and North America.
Libraries, Memories and Interconnects
Arteris
Arteris IP provides network-on-chip (NoC) interconnect semiconductor intellectual property (IP) and IP deployment technology to accelerate system-on-chip (SoC) semiconductor development and integration for a wide range of applications from AI to automobiles, mobile phones, IoT, cameras, SSD controllers
Application Software
Cywee Motion
CyweeMotion’s Sensor Fusion Hub™ software has been optimized for Cadence® Tensilica® Fusion F1 DSP. This solution delivers a fully optimized, low-power sensor fusion platform for seamless integration into mobile or wearable devices.
Galileo Satellite Navigation
Galileo’s software-based GNSS receiver is now available on Tensilica® ConnX DSP IP cores. The GSN GNSS receiver running on a Cadence ConnX BBE16 DSP consumes very little power and has the ability to work in lower rates, or "snap-shots" for ultra-low-power mobile scenarios. The solution delivers high sensitivity tracking, offering a seamless GNSS experience in challenging environments.
IntegrIT
IntregrIT DSP Design House is a leading supplier of DSP software solutions. They have ported their libraries to our ConnX DSP products.
P-Product
P-Product develops efficient implementations of digital signal processing software based on standard or custom specifications using algorithm optimizations and deep implementation optimization. The company has extensive experience in audio and voice codec porting and has already ported many audio and voice software packages to our HiFi Audio DSPs.
Nestwave
Nestwave provides advanced IoT geolocation solutions to IoT modem and DSP vendors. Nestwave's patented, hybrid-signal technology significantly improves localization accuracy in critical indoor and dense urban environments while greatly reducing power consumption and solution footprint compared to existing solutions. Nestwave solution has been ported to the Cadence Tensilica Fusion F1 DSP and was demonstrated at MWC 2019.
Communications Software and IP
Arraycomm
ArrayComm is a leading provider of physical layer software (PHY) for 4G (LTE/LTE-A, Cat-M and NB-IoT) and 5G wireless communication systems. Together with ArrayComm’s rich experiences in providing system integration (with radio and L2/L3) and validation services to customers, ArrayComm's BasePort™ 4G/5G PHY has enabled customers around the world such as Fujitsu, NEC, Hitachi and Motorola to shorten time to market for their 4G/5G base stations significantly. ArrayComm BasePort™ PHY is field proven in tier-1 operator’s network.
CommAgility
CommAgility is an award-winning developer of embedded signal processing and RF hardware and LTE PHY/stack software for 4G and 5G mobile network and related applications. CommAgility partnered with the Cadence Tensilica IP group to support customers’ 4G product development and is again working with Cadence to provide 5G expertise and IP to Cadence customers who are developing SoCs.
Lekha Wireless
Lekha Wireless offers 3GPP based 4G and 5G Wireless Technology IP solutions on Tensilica DSPs. Release 14 compliant light weight CAT-NB1 UE solution is offered on Fusion F1 DSP and Release 15 compliant 5G gNB and UE reference solutions being integrated on to Tensilica BBExxEP family of DSPs. Lekha Wireless, with a strong and growing IP portfolio in Wireless Communication technologies, licenses target device based IP solutions integrated with RF to accelerate product development cycles.
