Tensilica Inc. was a company based in Silicon Valley that developed semiconductor intellectual property (SIP) cores.

[1] In April 2013, the company was acquired by Cadence Design Systems for approximately $326 million.

Cadence Tensilica develops SIP blocks to be included on the chip (IC) designs of products of their licensees, such as system on a chip for embedded systems.

Tensilica processors are delivered as synthesizable RTL to aid integration with other chips.

[7] The brand name Tensilica is a combination of the word Tensile and Silica, with the latter referring to silicon, the building blocks of modern integrated circuits.