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• VEXXHOST Leverages the Power of Arm Processors and OpenStack with New Virtual Machine Architecture Offering (Monday Sep. 17, 2018)
  By working in collaboration with Arm, the Canadian cloud computing provider, VEXXHOST, announced plans to offer commercially available Arm®-based virtual machines with OpenStack® API access allowing users to leverage both technologies on public, private and hybrid cloud.
  
  
• Fraunhofer IIS introduces SDK for JPEG XS image coding (Monday Sep. 17, 2018)
  The Fraunhofer-Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS presents its new Software Development Kit (SDK) with optimized functions to code images with the new JPEG XS codec. JPEG XS is suited for use in production environments where high resolution image data of up to 8k/60p UHD video must be transferred via Ethernet.
  
  
• Allegro DVT Announces Availability of Full Compliance Test Suite for Alliance for Open Media's New AV1 Video Codec (Thursday Sep. 13, 2018)
  Allegro DVT announces the immediate availability of its AV1 compliance streams following the public release of the AOMedia Video Codec 1.0 (AV1) specification by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) on March 28th, 2018.
  
  
• NAGRA announces integration of NexGuard watermarking and Inside Secure's downloadable security solution (Wednesday Sep. 12, 2018)
  NAGRA today announced that its NexGuard QuickMark watermarking solution for open devices has been integrated with Inside Secure’s Content Protection Client, allowing live TV streaming services to benefit from enhanced content protection in a secure and robust implementation.
  
  
• NGCodec Leverages Accelize's Digital Right Management (DRM) Platform for Flexible and Secure Deployment of its Next-Generation Video Compression Solutions (Tuesday Sep. 11, 2018)
  Accelize and NGCodec today announce that they have signed an agreement for NGCodec to leverage Accelize’s Digital Right Management (DRM) Platform to ensure its video accelerator products can be easily deployed and managed in hybrid multi-cloud environments (Public Cloud, Private Cloud, On-premise or a mix of them).
  
  
• Hex Five Security Adds MultiZone Trusted Execution Environment to the SiFive Software Ecosystem (Monday Sep. 10, 2018)
  SiFive, the leading provider of commercial RISC-V processor IP, today welcomed Hex Five Security, maker of MultiZone™ Security – the first Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) for RISC-V, to the growing SiFive Software Ecosystem.
  
  
• Synopsys Announces Support for the Open Neural Network Exchange Format in ARC MetaWare EV Development Toolkit (Thursday Sep. 06, 2018)
  Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced support for the Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) format in the upcoming release of its DesignWare® ARC® MetaWare EV Development Toolkit, a complete set of tools, runtime software and libraries to develop vision and artificial intelligence (AI) applications for ARC EV6x Embedded Vision Processor IP.
  
  
• Socionext Establishes "ForteArt" to Enhance Sound Quality in Wide Range of Applications (Friday Aug. 31, 2018)
  Socionext Inc. today announced a lineup of acoustics solutions now available under the "ForteArt™" family of software IPs. ForteArt enhances the sound-related user experience, with applications including consumer products, public signage and automotive infotainment systems. The software IPs can be implemented with other vendors' hardware, as well as with Socionext's SoC products.
  
  
• Frontier collaborates with NXP on new Smart IoT software licensing business (Wednesday Aug. 29, 2018)
  Frontier Smart Technologies, a pioneer in digital audio solutions, announces the launch of a new Smart IoT software licensing and services business line. The first collaborator in this venture is leading silicon manufacturer, NXP® Semiconductors.
  
  
• Drone.io Announces Official Support for Arm Architectures (Monday Aug. 27, 2018)
  Drone.io Announces Official Support for Arm Architectures, Expanding Development for the IoT and Embedded Device Ecosystem.
  
  
• Fujitsu Presents Post-K CPU Specifications (Thursday Aug. 23, 2018)
  Fujitsu today announced publication of specifications for the A64FX™ CPU to be featured in the post-K computer, a supercomputer being developed by Fujitsu and RIKEN as a successor to the K computer, which achieved the world's highest performance in 2011.
  
  
• Antmicro and SiFive join forces to propose complete RISC-V offering (Tuesday Aug. 14, 2018)
  Antmicro, a software-driven technology vendor for edge AI and cyber-physical systems, and SiFive, the first fabless semiconductor company to offer customized silicon based on the free and open RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture, are announcing a milestone partnership to bring forth a complete offering for early adopters of RISC-V.
  
  
• Argon Design Releases Argon Streams AV1 (Monday Aug. 13, 2018)
  Argon Design Ltd announced today that it has released Argon Streams AV1. This release coincides with the formal release of the AV1 Bitstream and Decoding Process Specification by the industry wide consortium Alliance for Open Media.
  
  
• UltraSoC brings SEGGER J-Link to embedded debug and analytics environment (Thursday Aug. 02, 2018)
  UltraSoC today announced that it has partnered with SEGGER to offer support for J-Link debug probes within UltraSoC’s integrated system on chip (SoC) monitoring and analytics environment. SEGGER’s J-Link probes are amongst the industry’s most widely-used and support the debug of popular processor platforms including RISC-V, and both current and legacy Arm cores.
  
  
• Stratix 10 FPGA: REFLEX CES adds 26G Acceleration hardware to the "XpressGXS10-FH200G" line already shipping. (Thursday Aug. 02, 2018)
  REFLEX CES, a leading European-based provider of custom embedded systems and High-End FPGA COTS boards, has added a 26G version to the Stratix10 XpressGXS10-FH200G line of hardware , based on the latest Intel PSG technology, Stratix 10 GX and SoC.
  
  
• BrainChip Unveils the Akida Development Environment (Wednesday Jul. 25, 2018)
  The Akida Development Environment is a machine learning framework for the creation, training, and testing of spiking neural networks (SNNs), supporting the development of systems for edge and enterprise products on the Company’s Akida Neuromorphic System-on-Chip (NSoC).
  
  
• Dolphin Integration announces a new release of its innovative IDE for the RISC-V ecosystem (Tuesday Jul. 24, 2018)
  Embedded software development is one of the major focuses to work on in order to reduce Time-to-Market of microcontroller based products. To this end, the need for a complete and integrated development environment is crucial. Indeed, an industrial solution with ready-to-use and configurable MCU subsystems, together with advanced debug features, enables to facilitate and accelerate each software development phases.
  
  
• Stratix 10 FPGA: REFLEX CES launches an 800G acceleration card (Thursday Jul. 19, 2018)
  REFLEX CES, the leading European-based provider of custom embedded systems and High-end FPGA COTS solutions, is proud to announce the latest Stratix 10 acceleration card supporting up to 800GbE..
  
  
• ArcSoft and Cadence Partner to Develop AI and Vision Applications (Friday Jul. 13, 2018)
  Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) and ArcSoft, the global leader in imaging intelligence technology, today announced they have partnered to develop AI and vision applications for Cadence®Tensilica®Vision DSPs.
  
  
• Stratix 10 SoC: REFLEX CES is releasing to market its new version of the COM Express module based on Stratix 10 SoC technology from Intel PSG (Tuesday Jul. 10, 2018)
  REFLEX CES, a leading European-based provider of custom embedded systems and High End FPGA COTS boards, is releasing to market its new version of the COM Express module, based on the latest Intel PSG technology, Stratix 10 SoC.
  
  
• Renode 1.4 released: 64-bit RISC-V HiFive Unleashed support, multiple Silicon Labs targets, and more (Monday Jul. 09, 2018)
  With the build-up to the RISC-V Workshop in Barcelona, and our continued partnership with Microsemi to elevate Renode as the industry’s tool of choice for RISC-V development, we are happy to say that the announced support for multi-core 64-bit, Linux-enabled RISC-V targets - along with a multitude of other new features - is now available in Renode’s milestone 1.4 release.
  
  
• L&T Technology Services launches new NB-IoT Protocol Stack IP, collaborates with Cadence to facilitate smart connectivity (Monday Jul. 02, 2018)
  L&T Technology Services Limited (NSE: LTTS), a global leading pure-play engineering services company, has collaborated with California-based Cadence Design Systems, Inc., a leading provider of system design tools, software, IP and services, to launch its new NB-IoT (Narrow Band – Internet of Things) L1-L2-L3 protocol stack nB-on, which will be hosted on the Cadence® Tensilica® Fusion F1 DSP.
  
  
• Eta Compute and ROHM Semiconductor Collaborate to Create Low Power Wi-SUN Compatible Sensor Nodes (Monday Jun. 25, 2018)
  Eta Compute Inc., a company focused on delivering next generation autonomous intelligence to mobile and edge devices, and ROHM Semiconductor, a leading supplier of various kinds of semiconductors, today announced their collaboration to develop unprecedented low power Wireless Smart Ubiquitous Network (Wi-SUN) compatible sensor nodes.
  
  
• UltraSoC embedded analytics and Imperas virtual platforms combine to enhance multicore development and debug (Thursday Jun. 21, 2018)
  UltraSoC and Imperas today announced a wide-ranging partnership that will provide developers of multicore systems on chip (SoCs) with a powerful combination of embedded analytics and virtual platform technologies.
  
  
• Andes Certifies Imperas Models and Simulator as a Reference for Andes RISC-V Cores (Thursday Jun. 21, 2018)
  Imperas Software and Andes Technology , today announced that Andes has certified the Open Virtual Platforms™ (OVP™) instruction-accurate models and virtual platforms of the AndesCore™ N25 and NX25 IP processors.
  
  
• Fraunhofer's xHE-AAC Audio Codec Software Extends Native AAC Support In Android P For Better Quality At Low Bitrates (Monday Jun. 11, 2018)
  With the release of the Android P beta 3 preview, Fraunhofer IIS announces a new version of the popular FDK library which has been a part of Android since 2012.
  
  
• PLDA to Demonstrate Industry's First PCIe 4.0 Switch Platform with Multiple Downstream Ports during PCI-SIG DevCon 2018 (Wednesday Jun. 06, 2018)
  PLDA, the industry leader in PCI Express® interface IP solutions, today announced a demonstration of the Gen4SWITCH Multi-DS, first PCIe 4.0 switch platform with multiple-downstream ports using PLDA’s XpressSWITCH IP.
  
  
• Dolphin Integration makes available in free download its innovative IDE SmartVision, for the RISC-V ecosystem (Monday Jun. 04, 2018)
  Dolphin Integration announces the availability in free download of its innovative IDE SmartVisionTM supporting the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA).
  
  
• Synopsys' Latest ARC MetaWare EV Development Toolkit Release Speeds Application Software Development for Embedded Vision Systems (Thursday May. 31, 2018)
  Synopsys today announced a new release of its DesignWare® ARC® MetaWare EV Development Toolkit, an integrated programming environment that accelerates application software development for the DesignWare ARC EV6x family of embedded vision processors.
  
  
• Silex Inside HDMI over IP OEM solution is interoperable with AES67 and SMPTE 2110 standards (Friday May. 25, 2018)
  Silex Inside is announcing the support of AES67 audio standard and SMPTE 2110 standard on its Viper OEM AV over IP solution. The support of AES67 and SMPTE 2110 is the reference in terms of open standard for streaming audio/video over IP network.