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Cadence Advances Pervasive Intelligence at the Edge with Next-Generation Extensible Tensilica Processor Platform
8th generation of the industry-leading Tensilica Xtensa LX platform offers significant system-level performance enhancements while delivering optimal power
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n8th generation of the industry-leading Tensilica Xtensa LX platform offers significant system-level performance enhancements while delivering optimal power efficiency\n\n\n SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nCadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced the Cadence® Tensilica® Xtensa® LX8 processor platform, the foundation for the eighth generation of its industry-leading Xtensa LX processor family. The Xtensa LX8 processor offers significant new capabilities to address the increasing system-level performance and AI requirements of processor-based SoC designs while still providing customers energy-optimized Tensilica IP solutions. These robust enhancements are driven by the continued push for pervasive intelligence at the edge in the automotive, consumer and deeply embedded computing markets. The new Xtensa LX8 platform serves as the foundation for processor and system-level design innovations, including new DSP, multi-processor, interconnect and system-level IP products.\n\n\nScaling processor performance to meet the ever-increasing performance demands of intelligent edge devices for mobile and automotive applications requires designers to look holistically at the system-level requirements. It is not enough to simply scale clock frequency or add additional processors, and factors such as data movement, memory bandwidth, latency and ease of integration all become more critical as SoC designs grow more complex. For example, recurrent and convolutional neural networks often include large datasets that must be quickly accessed from system memory in order to meet real-time requirements. Processor and DSP subsystems must now support multiple concurrent algorithms and ever-larger width filters, so the ability to reduce the latency of memory accesses and limit DMA transfers of repetitive zeroes can greatly improve overall system performance. These requirements, along with the continued emphasis on energy-efficient computing and AI, drove the development of the Xtensa LX8 platform, which includes several features designed to optimize overall system performance per watt.\n\n\nXtensa platform enhancements will be leveraged across the broad family of Tensilica HiFi Vision, ConnX and FloatingPoint DSPs and AI controllers. These enhancements include:\n\n\n\nL2 cache: Offers performance improvements of 50% or more for cache-...