“Tallika’s expertise in micro-architecture design, information security, embedded software and verification will be very appealing to our customers,” stated Steve Roddy, Tensilica’s vice president of marketing. “They specialize in engagements with start-up companies in emerging markets, and provide years of valuable expertise to speed these companies through their SOC design experience.”
Tallika’s design services are complemented by its silicon proven IP portfolio. For example, Tallika’s Silicon Proven Secure SOC Prototyping Platform is based on Xilinx Virtex4 family and includes AES 128/192/256 (various modes), SHA-1/SHA-256/MD5/HMAC-SHA1/HMAC-SHA256, TDES, link-list DMA controller connected to AHB back-bone along with 2048-bit native Exponentiation engine on the APB bus. The platform comes with full software library/API for security functions as well as public-key cryptography functions such as RSA-encrypt, RSA-decrypt, RSA-generate etc. The platform’s applications include digital rights management, hardware authentication, secure media access, VPN/SSL acceleration, etc.
“Tensilica’s Xtensa configurable processors are ideal for a number of our customers’ application-specific designs because they can be tailored precisely for the application at hand,” stated Hemi Bhatnagar, President and CEO, Tallika. “Our team specializes in concept-to-system engagements, with a methodology designed to generate production-worthy first silicon and corresponding system level prototypes/software implementation. With our well-established embedded software and ASIC development centers in Chennai (India) and Phoenix, Arizona, we now offer high quality, cost-effective development solutions to our customers – including embedded software development, RTL, verification and physical design.”