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Yokogawa Digital Computer Offers In-Circuit Emulator

Posted on: Monday, 7 July 2003, 06:00 CDT

SANTA CLARA, Calif. & YOKOHAMA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 7, 2003--Tensilica,(R) Inc. today announced the immediate availability of the advicePLUS Advanced In-Circuit Emulator from Yokogawa Digital Computer Corporation (YDC) for Tensilica's Xtensa(R) configurable processor cores. advicePLUS is already in use by Tensilica customers, including a major Japanese printer manufacturer. Yokogawa Digital Computer Corporation also joined Tensilica's Xtensions(TM) partner network.

"Our customers have been very impressed with the capabilities of YDC's advicePLUS system," stated Bernie Rosenthal, Tensilica's Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales. "It's fast, proven, and helps accelerate the design process."

The advicePLUS in-circuit emulator is a robust development system scalable from basic JTAG/OCD to a fully featured in-circuit emulator. It features bus speeds to 200 MHz, high-speed emulation memory from 4 to 64 MB, USB/100-BT Ethernet host interface, and a sophisticated C/C++ source debugger. The scalable architecture allows designers to start with a basic JTAG tool and add additional features such as emulation memory, external bus trace and coverage/performance measurement.

Single or multiple processors can be debugged using microVIEW-PLUS, a graphical high-level debug interface that runs under MS-Windows(TM). microVIEW-PLUS is tightly integrated to the emulator control system an unmatched combination of high-level language debug features together with low-level target visibility and control. Trigger and breakpoint event setup, memory mapping, performance analysis and emulator control switches are all just a mouse click away.

Tensilica's Xtensions Network brings together "best in class" products and services from industry leaders to enable SOC designers to accelerate development of their Xtensa-based designs. More information on this program is available at www.tensilica.com/html/partners.html.

Pricing and Availability

YDC's advicePLUS is available now and priced from $10,000 depending on additional features. Contact info@advice.ydc.co.jp for more information.

About Yokogawa Digital Computer Corporation

Yokogawa Digital Computer Corporation (location: 1-9 Fuchu-cho, Fuchu-shi, Tokyo, Japan. President: Mr.Tatsuo Kobayashi. http://www.ydc.co.jp/emb/index.html), has been introducing total development systems for variety of embedded markets such as micro-computer and system design market worldwide for over a decade. YDC's In-Circuit Emulator (ICE), state-of-art software and hardware debugging system has top share in mobile-phone, information appliance, automotive and industrial apparatus markets. YDC's relationship with micro-computer venders, RTOS venders, and compiler vender makes YDC's tool fast with high quality to the world-wide market through our branch office or distributor channel in Silicon Valley US, Europe and Asia with their support. For more information, see www.advice-plus.com or http://www.ydc.co.jp/emb.

About Tensilica

Tensilica was founded in July 1997 to address the growing need for optimized, application-specific microprocessor solutions in high-volume embedded applications. With a configurable and extensible microprocessor core called Xtensa, Tensilica is the only company that has automated and patented the time-consuming process of generating a customized microprocessor core along with a complete software development tool environment, producing new configurations in a matter of hours. For more information, visit www.tensilica.com.

Editors' Notes:

-- "Tensilica" and "Xtensa" are registered trademarks belonging

to Tensilica Inc. All other trademarks are the property of

their respective holders.

-- Tensilica's announced licensees are Agilent, Astute Networks,

Avision, Bay Microsystems, Berkeley Wireless Research Center,

Broadcom, Cisco Systems, Conexant Systems, Cypress, ETRI,

FUJIFILM Microdevices, Fujitsu Ltd., Hudson Soft, Hughes

Network Systems, IC4IC, Ikanos Communications, JNI

Corporation, Marvell, Mindspeed Technologies, National

Semiconductor, NEC Laboratories America, NEC Corporation,

Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT), Olympus Optical Co.

Ltd., ONEX Communications, OptiX Networks, Osaka & Kyoto

Universities, S2io, Sony, TranSwitch Corporation, Trebia

Networks, Victor Company of Japan (JVC) and ZiLOG.

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