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• InAccel's Accelerated ML suite boosts Spark ML as much as 7x using Intel's Arria FPGAs (Monday Aug. 05, 2019)
  InAccel has developed an integrated ML suite based on FPGAs that allows up to 7x speedup compared to an 8-core general purpose CPU execution for widely used applications like logistic regression, K-means clustering and XGboost.
  
  
• Arm brings automation to IoT connectivity management (Thursday Aug. 01, 2019)
  Pelion Connectivity Management already offered MNOs the simplicity of a single platform for managing IoT connectivity across all their device’s lifecycles. With the release of Pelion Connectivity Management 2.0, MNOs can now drive additional revenue opportunities by enabling their enterprise clients with capabilities for automatically configuring their IoT devices.
  
  
• Allegro DVT Announces the Availability of the First AVS3 Compliance Test Suite (Thursday Jul. 25, 2019)
  Allegro DVT, the leading provider of video codec compliance test suites and semiconductor video IPs, today introduced the first compliance test suite for the new AVS3 video standard, the latest addition to the AVS family of video coding standards.
  
  
• DSP Concepts and CEVA Partner to Streamline Audio/Voice DSP Software Development for High-End Sound Applications (Thursday Jul. 18, 2019)
  CEVA and DSP Concepts today announced that DSP Concepts’ industry-leading Audio Weaver® tools and TalkTo voice front-end now support the CEVA-X2 and CEVA-BX family of DSPs. Audio Weaver is already being used by a number of customers who are leveraging the design tool to develop advanced audio and voice applications for their CEVA DSP based designs.
  
  
• eSOL and Kalray extend their cooperation to address demanding needs of automotive, industrial and medical applications (Monday Jul. 15, 2019)
  Kalray and eSOL announce today the availability of eSOL’s eMCOS POSIX Real Time Operating System (RTOS) on Kalray’s MPPA® intelligent processor to address growing and demanding needs for performance, safety and security of Automotive, Industrial and Medical Markets.
  
  
• Verimatrix Brings Effortless Application Security to the Masses, Launches New ProtectMyApp Service for Developers (Tuesday Jul. 09, 2019)
  Verimatrix today announced the launch of ProtectMyApp, a groundbreaking new service designed to bring cost-effective mobile application security to developers — providing an unmatched level of simplicity and speed to the protection phase of app development.
  
  
• CEVA Introduces Fully-Integrated Wi-Fi Solution to Connect IoT Devices to the Alibaba Cloud (Tuesday Jun. 25, 2019)
  The turnkey solution integrates CEVA’s industry-leading RivieraWaves Wi-Fi Low Power IP together with the AliOS Things operating system on a single RISC-V CPU core, providing customers with the freedom to focus their development efforts on creating differentiation in the end application.
  
  
• Synopsys Expands Center of Excellence with Infineon to Deliver Virtualizer Development Kit for AURIX TC4x Automotive Microcontroller (Tuesday Jun. 25, 2019)
  Collaboration for Third Generation Builds on Successful Deployment of VDKs for AURIX TC2x and TC3x Series to Enable Early Software Development at Tier1 and OEM Customers
  
  
• Western Digital Extends Openness of PlatformIO and Enhances its RISC-V Portfolio to Accelerate Data-Centric Innovation (Thursday Jun. 20, 2019)
  Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced a new a strategic partnership with PlatformIO Labs, OÜ, in collaboration with SiFive, Inc., to extend the openness of PlatformIO vendor-agnostic embedded development platform to include new tools, thereby providing an end-to-end, open environment for innovation, including development for RISC-V
  
  
• NVIDIA Brings CUDA to Arm, Enabling New Path to Exascale Supercomputing (Tuesday Jun. 18, 2019)
  NVIDIA today announced its support for Arm CPUs, providing the high performance computing industry a new path to build extremely energy-efficient, AI-enabled exascale supercomputers.
  
  
• Cobham Releases New Instruction Simulator for Radiation Hardened Processors (Tuesday Jun. 11, 2019)
  Cobham Gaisler announced today the release of a new Instruction Simulator for radiation hardened processors.
  
  
• Gyrfalcon's 2803 Plai Plug Development Hardware Delivers 24 TOPS/W for AI From Edge to Cloud (Tuesday Jun. 11, 2019)
  New USB Plug-In Provides Highest AI Performance Combined With Superior Energy Efficiency for Customers Developing Advanced Edge & Data Center Solutions
  
  
• Silex Insight now supports 1GbE, 2.5GbE & 10GbE with their AV over IP OEM boards (Friday Jun. 07, 2019)
  Silex Silex Insight, a leading provider of AV over IP solutions, announces the extension of its family of ultra-low latency Audio/Video over IP OEM boards (called Viper), with the support of 2,5Gb and 10Gb Ethernet (in addition to 1GbE).
  
  
• Imperas delivers first RISC-V Simulator for new Vector and Bit Manipulation specifications to Lead Customers (Friday Jun. 07, 2019)
  Imperas leading simulation technology updated to include the latest ratified RISC-V specifications and new Vector and Bit Manipulation standard extensions. Used for RISC-V software development, compliance, and DV test developments
  
  
• Inside Secure Releases Industry's First Tool to Quickly, Graphically Create Secure Crypto Architectures (Wednesday Jun. 05, 2019)
  Inside Secure (Euronext Paris: INSD) today announced general availability of Whitebox Designer, its new software security tool that arms vehicle app developers, IoT device developers and OEMs with new levels of protection, reduced time to market, and simplified creation of crypto architectures.
  
  
• Wave Computing and Imperas Introduce New MIPS Open Simulator - MIPSOpenOVPsim (Friday May. 31, 2019)
  Wave Computing and Imperas Software introduced a new Instruction Set Simulator (ISS) for the MIPS Open™ community of SoC designers and processor architects, called MIPSOpenOVPsim™.
  
  
• Hex Five Adds MultiZone Security to the AdaCore Software Ecosystem (Tuesday May. 28, 2019)
  Hex Five Security Inc., creator of MultiZone™, the first trusted execution environment for RISC-V, today joined AdaCore’s Partner Program to enable the secure execution of Ada applications on RISC-V processors.
  
  
• IAR Systems takes RISC-V to the next level with launch of professional development tools with leading performance and ensured code quality (Thursday May. 23, 2019)
  IAR Systems®, the future-proof supplier of software tools and services for embedded development, announces the immediate availability of the leading C/C++ compiler and debugger toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench® with support for RISC-V cores.
  
  
• Synopsys and Kudan Collaborate to Accelerate Development of Intelligent Computer Vision Processing SoCs (Monday May. 20, 2019)
  Synopsys and Kudan, a leading simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) software algorithms licensor, today announced a collaboration to optimize Kudan's SLAM computer software algorithms for Synopsys' DesignWare® ARC® EV6x Embedded Vision Processor IP.
  
  
• CEVA Announces Availability of SLAM Software Development Kit for CEVA-XM Intelligent vision DSPs and NeuPro AI Processors (Monday May. 20, 2019)
  CEVA announced the availability of its CEVA-SLAM™ software development kit, aimed at streamlining the development of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) enabled products, including mobile devices, AR/VR headsets, robots, autonomous vehicles and other camera-based devices.
  
  
• Arm demonstrates new IoT test chip and board for highly efficient, secure IoT designs (Wednesday May. 15, 2019)
  Today at the Samsung Foundry Forum, Arm, in collaboration with Samsung Foundry, Cadence, and Sondrel, demonstrated the first 28nm fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) embedded MagnetoResistive Random Access Memory (eMRAM) IoT test chip and development board.
  
  
• Elektrobit and Synopsys Collaborate to Accelerate Automotive Electronic System Virtual Development (Monday May. 13, 2019)
  Synopsys and Elektrobit today announced a collaboration to accelerate automotive electronic systems development using virtual environments. The two companies are collaborating to bring together Synopsys Virtualizer Development Kits (VDKs), EB operating systems, development and test tools, and complementary expertise to enable pre-silicon and pre-Electronic Control Unit (ECU) hardware availability and software development.
  
  
• Algo-Logic Systems Delivers Ultra-Low-Latency Pre-Trade Risk Check (PTRC) Solution Powered by Xilinx (Thursday May. 09, 2019)
  The Algo-Logic PTRC accelerated system delivers compliance with sub-microsecond latency that is consistently lower than software-based systems.
  
  
• Cycle-accurate trace boosts performance optimization capabilities of UltraSoC embedded analytics infrastructure (Tuesday May. 07, 2019)
  UltraSoC today announced new technology within its embedded monitoring and analytics infrastructure that allows designers of high-performance computing, storage and real-time devices to squeeze ultimate levels of performance from their products.
  
  
• Docker and Arm Partner to Deliver Frictionless Cloud-native Software Development and Delivery Model for Cloud, Edge, and IoT (Thursday Apr. 25, 2019)
  Docker and Arm today announced a strategic partnership enabling cloud developers to build applications for cloud, edge, and IoT environments seamlessly on the Arm® architecture.
  
  
• Tortuga Logic and Synopsys Collaborate to Deliver System-Level Security to SoCs Built with Synopsys DesignWare ARC Processor IP (Tuesday Apr. 23, 2019)
  Tortuga Logic, a cybersecurity company specializing in hardware threat detection and prevention, today announced a partnership with Synopsys to offer a security verification solution that identifies and prevents vulnerabilities in system-on-chip (SoC) designs.
  
  
• Exablaze and Algo-Logic partner to deliver ultra-low latency trading solutions (Wednesday Apr. 17, 2019)
  Exablaze has today announced its partnership with Algo-Logic Systems. Both firms service financial institution clients in trading and HFT, which include investment banks and exchanges trading multiple asset classes
  
  
• Fujitsu Begins Production of Post-K (Tuesday Apr. 16, 2019)
  Fujitsu Limited today announced that, working with RIKEN, it has completed the design of Post-K, the successor to the K supercomputer. The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) is aiming to start the public service of Post-K around 2021 or 2022.
  
  
• First software-driven JPEG XS solutions demonstrated by intoPIX at NAB Show 2019. (Tuesday Apr. 09, 2019)
  intoPIX, leading provider of innovative image processing and video compression technologies, announced today the demonstration of their FastTICO-XS SDKs, that will accelerate JPEG-XS encoding and decoding for Live production.
  
  
• intoPIX TICO-RAW technology to simplify and improve image signal processing of next-gen 4K & 8K cameras at NAB Show 2019 (Monday Apr. 08, 2019)
  intoPIX, leading provider of innovative image and video processing technologies, are showcasing their TICO-RAW technology at NAB Show, a new technology that will drastically simplify the way we deal with raw image sensor data and production workflows.