Tensilica and mimoOn have teamed up to provide a comprehensive hardware/software licensable intellectual property (IP) solution for LTE and LTE-Advanced chip designs. Through an exclusive agreement, Tensilica is now the exclusive DSP IP vendor for mimoOn’s LTE user equipment (UE) and eNodeB (basestation) physical-layer (PHY) software products. Customers also will have access to mimoOn’s complete LTE software portfolio, product support, and design services, which will help customers reduce risk and shorten time-to-market while allowing a high degree of product differentiation, according to the companies.

“Having a complete software PHY ported on a subsystem of cores is the only way to ensure that the IP cores and subsystem will perform well. In collaboration with our partner mimoOn, Tensilica can provide a complete hardware/software PHY solution. By working closely together, we can not only assure our customers that our IP cores and LTE subsystem have the right performance for LTE/LTE-A signal processing and control tasks but also help our customers get chips to market much faster and with the lowest power/area for LTE and LTE-Advanced communications,” said Jack Guedj, Tensilica president and CEO.

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