KPIT Cummins becomes authorized Tensilica SoC design center

PUNE & BANGALORE, INDIA: Tensilica Inc. announced that KPIT Cummins, a leading product engineering and IT consulting partner to manufacturing companies, has joined Tensilica’s Xtensions partner network and become an authorized design center.

As a Tensilica Xtensions partner, KPIT Cummins will extend its capabilities to support customers on Xtensa core-based designs for a broad range of ASIC’s for infotainment and consumer electronics applications.

KPIT Cummins, with its strong focus on providing IP led solutions and services, has leveraged its expertise in digital design combined with analog and mixed signal and product engineering capabilities to create designs that have been successfully integrated into SoC’s for infotainment systems, digital still cameras, Blue-ray DVD players, mobile and handhelds, and microcontrollers in a wide variety of technology nodes ranging from 0.35µ to 40nm.

“KPIT Cummins’ has built expertise in Tensilica technology in order to assist our mutual customers in getting to market quickly,” stated Chris Jones, Tensilica’s director of strategic alliances. “They have a wealth of experience in deeply embedded applications in a variety of end markets.”

“KPIT Cummins has always endeavored to develop solutions that help our customers bring their products faster to market. Tensilica’s Xtensa dataplane processing units will help in reducing the development and verification time of infotainment, image-processing applications and network processing” stated Girish Wardadkar, president and executive director, KPIT Cummins.