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Tensilica Offers Free Music Downloads to Showcase Quality of HiFi 2 Audio EngineSANTA CLARA, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- Tensilica(R), Inc. is offering free jazz music downloads in five popular music formats (MP3, WMA, MPEG-2/4 AAC LC, aacPlus(TM) v1, and aacPlus v2) from its web site at www.tensilica.com. Tensilica encoded the free music downloads utilizing the HiFi 2 Audio Engine encoders to showcase the fidelity achieved with a DSP processor core optimized for audio. "The quality of the HiFi 2 Audio Engine is exceptional, and offering free downloads in five of the most popular music formats is a fun and informative way of showcasing the technology," stated Steve Roddy, Tensilica's vice president of marketing. The two tunes available, "Les is Moore" and "Pigsaw Juzzle," are from the Pigsaw Juzzle CD from the Hip Pocket Jazz Quintet (http://hippocket.jazzcombo.com). The Hip Pocket Jazz Quintet has been playing in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1989 and Pigsaw Juzzle marks the group's first all-original release. The cornerstone of Hip Pocket's philosophy is to create truly improvised jazz. All the musicians are in the same room at the same time and there are no overdubs. Tensilica's HiFi2 Audio Engine is the leading licensable high fidelity audio DSP engine. Licensees of the HiFi Audio Engine include ATI, NVIDIA, and PNP Networks in mobile phone applications; and Ibiquity Digital Corporation for HD Radio receivers. Tensilica Xtensa processor cores, which incorporate the HiFi Audio Engine, are being shipped in high volume today in more than two dozen mobile phones, including phones by Motorola, Samsung, HTC and BenQ-Siemens. About Tensilica Tensilica offers the broadest line of controller, CPU 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. Editors' Notes: -- Tensilica and Xtensa are registered trademarks belonging to Tensilica Inc. aacPlus is a trademark of Coding Technologies. All other company and product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. -- Tensilica's announced licensees include Afa Technologies, ALPS, AMCC (JNI Corporation), Aquantia, Astute Networks, Atheros, ATI, Avago Technologies, Avision, Bay Microsystems, Berkeley Wireless Research Center, Broadcom, Cisco Systems, Conexant Systems, Cypress, Crimson Microsystems, ETRI, EE Solutions, FUJIFILM Microdevices, Fujitsu Ltd., Hudson Soft, Hughes Network Systems, iBiquity Digital, Ikanos Communications, LG Electronics, Lucid Information Technology, Marvell, MediaWorks, NEC Laboratories America, NEC Corporation, NetEffect, Neterion, Nethra Imaging, Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT), NVIDIA, Olympus Optical Co. Ltd., PnpNetwork Technologies, sci-worx, Seiko Epson, Solid State Systems, Sony, STMicroelectronics, Stretch, TranSwitch Corporation, u-Nav Microelectronics, Victor Company of Japan (JVC), WiQuest Communications and XM Radio. |
