DocumentCode
1062672
Title
In Conversation with Tensilica CEO Chris Rowen
Volume
25
Issue
1
fYear
2008
Firstpage
88
Lastpage
95
Abstract
IEEE Design & Test´s Ken Wagner interviews Chris Rowen—founder, president, and CEO of Tensilica. Rowen has come to prominence in the past few years as having founded and developed a successful soft-core processor company. Tensilica specializes in efficiently programmable embedded microprocessors with integrated tool chains. In this interview, Rowen discusses the history of MIPS Computer Systems (a RISC processor company that he cofounded, and that was acquired by Silicon Graphics in 1992), his vision in founding Tensilica, and his perspective on the future of reconfigurable processors and multiprocessors.
Keywords
Business; Commercialization; Companies; Hardware; Operating systems; Reduced instruction set computing; Springs; System buses; Testing; Virtual colonoscopy; Chris Rowen; MIPS Computer Systems; Silicon Graphics; Tensilica; programmable embedded microprocessors; soft-core processor company;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Design & Test of Computers, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0740-7475
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MDT.2008.21
Filename
4447915
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