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• Imagination licenses PowerVR graphics core to Sunplus Technology (Friday Apr. 27, 2012)
  Imagination Technologies has signed a license agreement with Sunplus Technology IP from Imagination's PowerVR SGX graphics family.
  
  
• Ingenic Semiconductor and Vivante Expand GPU Technology Partnership for Next Generation Mobile Products (Tuesday Apr. 24, 2012)
  Vivante and Ingenic Semiconductor today announced a license agreement update that includes higher performance Vivante GPU cores to power the next wave of Ingenic applications processors. Ingenic was the first company to successfully ship non-ARM based tablets and smartphones worldwide. They also shipped the market’s first Android 4.0 (ICS) tablet, which was endorsed by Andy Rubin of Google. All those products were powered by Vivante GPUs.
  
  
• Marquise Technologies partners with Barco Silex for real-time JPEG2000 encoding (Tuesday Apr. 24, 2012)
  Marquise Technologies announced today the partnership with Barco Silex, provider of real-time JPEG2000 encoding technology for the brand new DCI mastering features of the DI deck MIST.
  
  
• CCS Licenses LDPC IP Cores from Creonic (Monday Apr. 23, 2012)
  Cambridge Communications Systems relies on Creonic as IP core provider for their new technology. CCS selected the WiMedia LDPC Encoder and Decoder solution from Creonic for its product.
  
  
• ARM and MStar Extend Relationship with License for ARM Cortex-A9 Processor (Monday Apr. 23, 2012)
  ARM today announced that MStar, a leading semiconductor supplier for display and digital home solutions, has licensed the ARM® Cortex™-A9 MPCore™ and ARM926EJ-S™ processors, in addition to a range of ARM system IP for use in smart-TVs, set-top-boxes (STBs) and smartphones.
  
  
• Chips&Media delivers its latest CODA9A0 to Freescale (Monday Apr. 23, 2012)
  Chips&Media today announces that it has begun shipping the fully verified CODA9A0 video encoder and decoder IP to partners including Freescale, and it will be deployed in future i.MX application processors after i.MX6.
  
  
• Imagination licenses its Ensigma UCC IP to Qualcomm (Monday Apr. 23, 2012)
  Imagination has signed a license agreement with Qualcomm for certain IP from Imagination’s Ensigma UCC broadcast, communications and connectivity IP family.
  
  
• Arteris FlexNoC Interconnect IP Licensed by Core Logic for Mobile and Multimedia Processors (Tuesday Apr. 17, 2012)
  Arteris today announced that Core Logic has selected Arteris® FlexNoC™ interconnect IP as the backbone SoC interconnect in its next-generation mobile and multimedia processors.
  
  
• China's SICMicro Selects MIPS Technologies' Processor IP for New Set-Top Box Chip (Tuesday Apr. 17, 2012)
  MIPS Technologies announced that SICMicro selected MIPS32 processor cores for the new generation of its highly-secure decoder SoCs for China's rapidly-growing ABS-S set-top box market. ABS-S is the direct-to-home (DTH) technology for satellite transmission in China, supporting broadcast, data distribution and interactive services.
  
  
• Tensilica's ConnX BBE16 DSP IP Core for Digital Baseband Signal Processing Licensed to Renesas Electronics (Tuesday Apr. 17, 2012)
  Tensilica, Inc. today announced that the ConnX BBE16 DSP IP core has been licensed to Renesas Electronics Corporation for upcoming products for digital broadcasting receivers.
  
  
• intoPIX and AXON announce their collaboration on a new series of JPEG 2000 enabled products (Monday Apr. 16, 2012)
  intoPIX, the leading provider of JPEG 2000 compression solutions, and AXON, leading provider of modular broadcast systems, announced today their collaboration in creating a range of new JPEG 2000 enabled broadcast products.
  
  
• STARCHIP develops a High-performance 32-bit RISC Secure core based on CORTUS APS3s CPU (Thursday Apr. 12, 2012)
  StarChip announced today the development of the ARX. The ARX CPU is a High-performance 32-bit RISC Secure Core based on Cortus’ APS3s CPU.
  
  
• Oxford Digital Limited and SMSC Collaborate on JukeBlox DSP (Thursday Apr. 12, 2012)
  Oxford Digital Limited and SMSC today announced a collaboration to provide SMSC’s JukeBlox® DSP which incorporates Oxford Digital’s FixFx and MajE-Fx sonic tuning solutions.
  
  
• MtekVision Licenses Arteris FlexLLI MIPI Low Latency Interface (LLI) IP (Wednesday Apr. 11, 2012)
  Arteris today announced that MtekVision has selected Arteris® FlexLLI MIPI Low Latency Interface (MIPI LLI) inter-chip link IP for multiple systems-on-chip (SoCs).
  
  
• Kilopass XPM Non-Volatile Memory IP Wins Design In SICMICRO Digital Set-Top Box System on Chip (Tuesday Apr. 03, 2012)
  Kilopass today announced that its XPM (eXtra Permanent Memory) IP is integrated into a Set-Top Box (STB) SoC being designed by SICMICRO based in Beijing Zhongguancun Science Park, China.
  
  
• Faraday Strengthens ASIC Design Service with Extended License for ARM Cortex-A9 Processors and Mali-400 MP GPUs (Tuesday Apr. 03, 2012)
  ARM and Faraday Technology Corporation, a leading ASIC provider, announced today that Faraday has licensed additional ARM processor and Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) technology to strengthen its system-on-chip (SoC) design services. The agreement will allow Faraday Technology to design high-performance, energy-efficient SoC solutions based on Cortex-A9 MPCore™ processors and Mali-400 MP GPUs.
  
  
• Open-Silicon Integrates 25 Analog Bits IP Cores Into Complex ASIC and SoC Designs (Friday Mar. 30, 2012)
  Open-Silicon and Analog Bits today announced that Open-Silicon has successfully integrated 25 Analog Bits IP cores into complex ASIC and SoC designs.
  
  
• videantis licenses multi-standard video IP to BOSCH (Tuesday Mar. 27, 2012)
  videantis has signed a license agreement with Robert Bosch Car Multimedia GmbH (“BOSCH”) for IP from videantis’ programmable low power video engine family including an upgradeable multi-standard video codec portfolio.
  
  
• Faraday Technology Allied with Arasan Chip Systems in MIPI DSI Receiver and MIPI D-PHY (Thursday Mar. 22, 2012)
  Arasan announced today to ally with Faraday in MIPI DSI Device and MIPI D-PHY. The Arasan IP was integrated into Faraday’s ASIC customer project in order to meet their tight development schedule.
  
  
• Apical licenses iridix image processing cores to Texas Instruments (Friday Mar. 16, 2012)
  Apical Limited announced a licensing agreement with Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) in which TI will leverage Apical’s iridix image processing IP cores in future products.
  
  
• Sidense Licenses 1T-OTP to Toumaz Microsystems for GLOBALFOUNDRIES 65nm Low-Power Process (Tuesday Mar. 13, 2012)
  Sidense has announced that it has fully qualified its 1T-OTP macros for GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ 65nm LPe (low-power) process and has licensed OTP macros to Toumaz Microsystems for this process.
  
  
• NXP Licenses ARM Cortex-M0+ Processor (Tuesday Mar. 13, 2012)
  NXP Semiconductors today announced that it is one of the lead ARM Partners to license the new ARM® Cortex™-M0+ processor.
  
  
• GUC and Synopsys Achieve Design Milestone (Tuesday Mar. 13, 2012)
  Global Unichip and Synopsys today announced the tape out of 30 customer devices during the past four years using a combination of Synopsys' DesignWare® IP and GUC's ASIC design services.
  
  
• AppliedMicro Tapes-out PACKETpro Embedded Processor with SLIMpro Accelerator using Arasan Chip Systems' SD3.0/eMMC4.5 Host Controller (Wednesday Mar. 07, 2012)
  Arasan announced today that AppliedMicro has employed Arasan’s SD3.0/eMMC4.5 Host Controller in their PACKETpro™ Embedded Processor with SLIMpro™ Accelerator in order to meet their tight development schedule. The Arasan IP was integrated into multiple PowerPC® based SOC designs like APM86190 and APM86290.
  
  
• ECT's World's first 3D chip supporting MIPI employs five Mixel MIPI products (Wednesday Mar. 07, 2012)
  Mixel announced today that Enhanced Chip Technology (ECT), a leader in 3D chip technology, achieved first-time silicon success with Mixel MIPI® D-PHY Intellectual Property (IP) in record time.
  
  
• Fast JPEG Encoder Core from CAST Used in Fastec TS3 High-Speed Camera (Tuesday Mar. 06, 2012)
  Fastec Imaging Corporation has incorporated a JPEG Encoder IP Core from CAST, Inc. in its groundbreaking TS3™ line of handheld, high-speed digital cameras.
  
  
• ADTechnology Selects S3 Group to Customize a Baseband ADC and Power Management Solution for its Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (T-DMB) System on Chip (SoC) (Monday Mar. 05, 2012)
  S3 Group, a global provider of Mixed Signal, Analog, RF and Power Management semiconductor IP solutions, today confirmed that fabless semiconductor vendor ADTechnology Co. Ltd. has licensed its Baseband ADC and Power Management IP. S3 Group customized IP from its portfolio, using its skilled engineers, to deliver the solution.
  
  
• Fixnetix Selects Intilop's TCP Offload Technology to incorporate in their Low Latency solutions (Thursday Mar. 01, 2012)
  Intilop today announced that Fixnetix – one of the fastest growing companies in EMEA – has selected Intilop’s TCP Offload Technology to develop their low latency appliance solutions.
  
  
• ClariPhy Licenses Tensilica's Xtensa Dataplane Processor (DPU) for Optical Networking Mixed Signal, Digital Signal Processing (MXSP) SOCs (Thursday Mar. 01, 2012)
  Tensilica, Inc. today announced that ClariPhy Communications, Inc., a leading developer of ultra-high speed mixed signal, digital signal processing (MXSP) system-on-chip (SOC) solutions for coherent optical networks, has licensed Tensilica's Xtensa dataplane processor unit (DPU) for a deeply embedded control application.
  
  
• SENSIO and Samsung Electronics reach a patent license agreement over SENSIO S2D Switch (Wednesday Feb. 29, 2012)
  SENSIO and Samsung Electronics today announced that they have reached a patent license agreement over the SENSIO® S2D Switch. As a result of this agreement, SENSIO is licensing Samsung Electronics the right to implement SENSIO® S2D Switch in its 3DTVs.