LSI licenses Silicon Hive's Configurable Parallel Processing Platform HiveLogic

HiveLogic added to LSI’s portfolio of purpose built accelerator cores for next generation communication system-on-chips.

Eindhoven, The Netherlands -- March 10, 2010 -- Silicon Hive B.V. (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) announced today that LSI Corporation licensed HiveLogic, Silicon Hive’s configurable parallel processing platform.

HiveLogic enables embedded programmable solutions for system-on-chips at unprecedented silicon area utilization and power consumption efficiency.

“Under constrained silicon area and power consumption conditions, HiveLogic enables us to improve compute performance by a factor 5 to 10 compared to alternative technologies”, said Gene Scuteri, VP of Network Components Division, LSI. “Silicon Hive’s configurable parallel processing platform helps us to implement revolutionary system-on-chips under tight time-to-market constraints, thereby contributing to LSI’s product leadership in wireless infrastructure.”

“We are excited by the opportunity to empower LSI’s system-on-chips with our HiveLogic parallel processing platform,” said Atul Sinha C.E.O. of Silicon Hive. “We are confident that HiveLogic will be a valuable differentiating addition to LSI’s multicore communications processing architectures.”

About Silicon Hive

Silicon Hive is a worldwide supplier of semiconductor intellectual property. The company designs, builds and licenses application-specific solutions for imaging, video processing and communications using its optimized programmable HiveFlex processor cores, complete vertical HiveGo solutions, and HiveLogic platform. HiveLogic and IP cores are supported by HiveCC program development tools, and partner-supplied application libraries. Silicon Hive products enable semiconductor and consumer electronics companies to make fully programmable System-on-Chips improving time to market performance. The patented technology originates from 10 years of research within Philips Research and more recent improvements, additions, and commercialization by Silicon Hive. www.siliconhive.com.