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• V-Nova and NGCodec ship industry's lowest cost real-time UHD encoding (Thursday Apr. 04, 2019)
  V-Nova Ltd. & NGCodec today announced the commercial availability of their combined FPGA-based encoding solution, which delivers industry-leading UHD video quality and encoding efficiency resulting in up to 50x cost savings when compared to traditional CPU software options.
  
  
• Arm Pelion IoT platform provides foundation for comprehensive IoT utility deployments (Wednesday Mar. 27, 2019)
  Arm is partnering with EDMI to simplify and speed up the secure deployment of connected smart meters and AMI solutions. EDMI is integrating the Pelion IoT platform and Mbed OS (PSA Certified) with its existing best of breed smart metering solutions to further expand beyond their millions of endpoints already deployed globally.
  
  
• Synopsys Introduces New embARC Machine Learning Inference Software Library for Power-Efficient Neural Networks (Thursday Mar. 21, 2019)
  Synopsys today announced availability of the new embARC Machine Learning Inference software library to facilitate development of power-efficient neural network system-on-chip (SoC) designs incorporating Synopsys' DesignWare® ARC® EM and HS DSP Processor IP.
  
  
• Imagination delivers new and enhanced developer tools for Android (Tuesday Mar. 19, 2019)
  Imagination announces new and enhanced tools to help developers optimise Android™ graphics performance for devices with PowerVR GPUs.These are: PVRMonitor for real-time GPU and CPU performance statistics; PVRTune for profiling and analysing applications; and PVRStudio for seamless CPU/GPU debugging on PowerVR devices.
  
  
• Andes and SEGGER Partner to Deliver Professional Development Solutions for RISC-V (Monday Mar. 11, 2019)
  Andes Technology and SEGGER Microcontroller today announced the availability of SEGGER powerful development solutions support for Andes RISC-V processor families.
  
  
• Cadence Tensilica Product Development Process and Software Products Certified for ISO 26262 ASIL D Compliance for Automotive Applications (Thursday Feb. 28, 2019)
  Cadence today announced that products in the Cadence® Tensilica® functional safety portfolio and its design processes achieved certification of ISO 26262 compliance up to ASIL D for the development of automotive applications.
  
  
• The Qt Company and Inside Secure to Offer Joint Integrated Solutions for Creating Secure IoT and Embedded Devices (Tuesday Feb. 26, 2019)
  Inside Secure today announced its collaboration with The Qt Company to provide a pre-integrated solution of Inside Secure’s Application Protection product and the Qt Software Framework.
  
  
• Cadence Drives Release of Alternative EVS Codec Implementation in 3GPP (Monday Feb. 25, 2019)
  Cadence today announced that it initiated and drove the standardization within 3GPP of an alternative fixed-point Enhanced Voice Services (EVS) codec reference implementation using updated basic operators.
  
  
• Arm and Leading Test Laboratories Unveil Independent Security Certification for IoT Devices (Monday Feb. 25, 2019)
  To support widespread deployment of secure IoT solutions based on the Platform Security Architecture (PSA) framework, Arm and its independent security testing lab partners Brightsight, CAICT, Riscure and UL, along with consultants Prove&Run, today announced PSA Certified™.
  
  
• Hex Five and wolfSSL Announce the First Secure IoT Stack for RISC-V (Monday Feb. 25, 2019)
  wolfSSL, a leading provider of TLS cryptography and Hex Five Security, provider of MultiZone™ Security, the first Trusted Execution Environment for RISC-V announce general availability of the industry-first secure IoT stack for RISC-V – a TLS 1.3 reference implementation of freeRTOS with hardware-enforced separation between OS, TCP/IP stack and root of trust.
  
  
• PSA Certified: Building Trust in IoT (Monday Feb. 25, 2019)
  IoT security challenges are a constant presence and if we are to instill confidence in IoT devices, the industry has a shared responsibility to rectify this – security cannot be optional.
  
  
• Infineon, Xilinx and Xylon team up for new microcontroller solutions in safety-critical applications (Friday Feb. 22, 2019)
  In order to provide more flexibility in how to use safety microcontrollers in automotive and industrial applications, Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) cooperates with Xilinx Inc. and Xylon, d.o.o..
  
  
• Arm announces Neoverse N1 platform & Neoverse E1 platform built for cloud to edge infrastructure (Wednesday Feb. 20, 2019)
  Two new complete infrastructure-class platforms for faster time-to-market and optimal design points for cloud to edge applications in the era of 5G
  
  
• Indoor Positioning Accuracy Revolutionized with a State-of-the-Art Bluetooth-Enabled Solution (Wednesday Feb. 20, 2019)
  CoreHW RABBIT (Rotating Antenna for Bluetooth Beacon and Internet of Things) solution is designed for Bluetooth 5.1, which has an unprecedented direction-finding feature. The new technology makes it possible for Bluetooth devices to determine the direction of a Bluetooth signal transmission and enables centimeter-level positioning accuracy.
  
  
• Cadence and Green Hills Software Announce Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Embedded System Safety and Security (Wednesday Feb. 20, 2019)
  Cadence Design Systems and Green Hills Software, a privately held company, today announced a strategic partnership that is expected to leverage their respective strengths to drive embedded system safety and security, while accelerating growth for both companies.
  
  
• AccelerComm introduces software only 5G NR channel coding IP at MWC Barcelona 2019 (Tuesday Feb. 19, 2019)
  AccelerComm has today announced the release of a software-only implementation of 3GPP-compliant polar coding IP for 5G NR (New Radio). The polar chain is optimised for the Intel FlexRAN reference architecture.
  
  
• AdaCore Enhances Security-Critical Firmware With NVIDIA (Wednesday Feb. 06, 2019)
  AdaCore, a trusted provider of software development and verification tools, today announced it is working with NVIDIA to implement Ada and SPARK programming languages for select security-critical firmware used for applications that demand stringent safety and security capabilities, like automated and autonomous driving.
  
  
• Feature-rich RISC-V IDE Available for Free Download (Thursday Jan. 31, 2019)
  Andes Technology today announced the free download of its AndeSight Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to accelerate software development for RISC-V based SoC. AndeSight IDE is a professional IDE based on Eclipse with many useful Andes add-on features, developed and widely used over the past 13 years, which provides an efficient way to develop embedded applications for RISC-V based SoC.
  
  
• eSilicon and Wild River Technology Announce Advanced SerDes Test System (Wednesday Jan. 30, 2019)
  eSilicon in collaboration with Wild River Technology announced today at DesignCon 2019 the availability of an advanced test system that addresses the incredible signal integrity demands of 56/112G PAM4 operation.
  
  
• Eta Compute selects IAR Embedded Workbench as the Preferred Toolchain for new neural network-based AI SoCs (Thursday Jan. 24, 2019)
  IAR Systems announces that it has been selected by Eta Compute, the company that removes power as an obstacle for the infinite Internet of Things (IoT), as the preferred tools vendor for its new innovative machine-learning SoCs.
  
  
• Synopsys' New ARC EM Software Development Platform Accelerates Software Development for IoT, Sensor Fusion, and Voice Recognition Applications (Thursday Jan. 24, 2019)
  Synopsys, Inc. today announced the new DesignWare® ARC® EM Software Development Platform to accelerate software development and debug of ARC EM processor-based system-on-chips (SoC) for a wide range of ultra-low power embedded applications such as IoT, sensor fusion, and voice applications.
  
  
• Aldec shortens time of ASIC design prototype bring-up in FPGA with HES-DVM Proto mode (Monday Jan. 14, 2019)
  Aldec, Inc., a pioneer in mixed HDL language simulation and hardware-assisted verification for ASIC and FPGA designs, has unveiled the latest release of HES-DVM™, the company’s fully automated and scalable hybrid verification environment for SoC and ASIC designs.
  
  
• NXP and Kalray Enter Partnership to Develop Platform for Safe, Reliable Autonomous Driving (Wednesday Jan. 09, 2019)
  NXP Semiconductors today announced a new strategic partnership with Kalray. The partnership will combine NXP’s scalable portfolio of functional safety products for ADAS and Central Compute with Kalray’s high-performance intelligent MPPA® (Massively Parallel Processor Array) processors.
  
  
• Inside Secure Debuts Industry's First Software-Only Solution for High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) 2.3 (Tuesday Jan. 08, 2019)
  Inside Secure today announced it now offers the first software-only High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) 2.3 solution. This new solution provides a simplified and secure approach to anti-piracy efforts and eliminates the need for today’s most popular content providers to store encryption keys or HDCP specs on more vulnerable, costlier hardware.
  
  
• Xilinx and ZF to Jointly Enable AI Innovation and Autonomous Driving Development (Monday Jan. 07, 2019)
  Xilinx and ZF Friedrichshafen AG (ZF) today announced a new strategic collaboration in which Xilinx technology will power ZF's highly-advanced artificial intelligence (AI)-based automotive control unit, called the ZF ProAI, to enable automated driving applications.
  
  
• BitSim Demonstrates an Embedded Vision Platform (Wednesday Dec. 12, 2018)
  To simplify the development of your own customized camera without starting from scratch, BitSim has released embedded camera blocks which contains the signal chain from camera sensor interface via MJPEG video coding to the Ethernet interface in an FPGA. An RTP Video stream over Ethernet is generated that can be displayed on, for example, a media player such as VLC.
  
  
• Codasip Releases Studio 8, a Breakthrough in RISC-V Automation, and the Bk7 RISC-V Processor Core for Real-Time Computing Applications (Thursday Dec. 06, 2018)
  Codasip GmbH, the leading supplier of RISC-V® embedded processor IP, announced today the latest version of Studio, a suite of tools optimized for the development and verification of RISC-V processors, and the Bk7 processor, the first Codasip RISC-V core optimized for Linux and real-time performance.
  
  
• Western Digital Delivers New Innovations to Drive Open Standard Interfaces and RISC-V Processor Development (Tuesday Dec. 04, 2018)
  Company Announces Plans to Open Source New RISC-V SweRV Core™ to Accelerate Development of Purpose-Built Architectures from Core to Edge
  
  
• IAR Systems and SiFive partner to meet customers' demands for professional solutions for RISC-V (Monday Dec. 03, 2018)
  IAR Systems®, the future-proof supplier of software tools and services for embedded development, and SiFive, the leading provider of commercial RISC-V processor IP, announce that they have formed a partnership in order to deliver increased possibilities for powerful RISC-V implementations with compact code and high performance.
  
  
• Think Silicon Announces New NEMA | GUI-Builder to Empower Programmers of IoT, Embedded and Wearable Devices (Friday Nov. 30, 2018)
  Think Silicon, a leader in developing ultra-low power graphics IP technology, announced the first free version of NEMA®|GUI-Builder to speed the creation of high-quality GUIs for Embedded, Internet of Things (IoT) and Wearable devices.