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• Fast Processor Models of Latest Arm Cores Released by Imperas and Open Virtual Platforms (OVP) (Wednesday Oct. 25, 2017)
  Imperas Software Ltd., the leader in high-performance software simulation and virtual platforms, announces the availability of models and virtual platforms for the Arm Cortex-A32, Cortex-A35, Cortex-A55, Cortex-A73, Cortex-A75 processors, including ARMv8.1 and ARMv8.2 support.
  
  
• BrainChip Ships First BrainChip Accelerator To a Major European Car Maker for Evaluation in ADAS and AV Systems (Tuesday Oct. 24, 2017)
  BrainChip, a leading developer of software and hardware accelerated solutions for advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning applications, today announced that it has shipped its first BrainChip Accelerator card to a major European automobile manufacturer.
  
  
• It's Here: A Common Industry Framework for Protecting a Trillion Connected Devices (Monday Oct. 23, 2017)
  Arm is announcing the introduction of the first common industry framework for building secure connected devices, called Platform Security Architecture (PSA).
  
  
• Xylon Presents New Modular Video Logger (Friday Oct. 20, 2017)
  Xylon Presents logiRECORDER 3.0 Automotive Video Data Logger. This high-performance data logger inserts between the real vehicle's camera installation and the Electronic Control Units (ECUs) to non-invasively record Terabytes (TB) of uncompressed multi-camera video, networks sensory and ECU data per a single recording session.
  
  
• OVH launches Acceleration-as-a-Service Leveraging the New Intel Programmable Acceleration Card and App Store from FPGA Acceleration Partner Accelize (Friday Oct. 20, 2017)
  Today OVH, the global, hyperscale cloud provider, announces FPGA-based Acceleration-as-a-Service, based on the Intel® Programmable Acceleration Card (Intel PAC) with Intel® Arria® 10 GX FPGA, and in partnership with Accelize®.
  
  
• CEVA and Cyberon Partner for Ultra-low Power Always-listening Voice Activation Solution (Thursday Oct. 19, 2017)
  CEVA and Cyberon announced today that the companies have partnered to offer an ultra-low power, always-listening voice activation solution for smartphones, consumer and IoT devices.
  
  
• Inside Secure brings to market industry's only complete and fully-certified cloud-based mobile payment solution (Thursday Oct. 19, 2017)
  Inside Secure announces today that it has released its Inside Secure Mobile Payment Server, a unique solution that can manage the mobile payment ecosystem for issuing banks and mobile payment providers.
  
  
• Synopsys and NXP Extend Multiyear Automotive Center of Excellence Collaboration for NXP S32 Automotive Processing Platform (Wednesday Oct. 18, 2017)
  Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS), today announced the extension of its multiyear Center of Excellence (CoE) program with NXP and availability of Virtualizer™ Development Kits (VDKs) for NXP S32 Automotive Processing Platform.
  
  
• CEVA and Brodmann17 Partner to Deliver 20 Times more AI Performance for Edge Devices (Wednesday Oct. 18, 2017)
  CEVA and Broadmann17 today announced a partnership aimed at accelerating the deployment of deep learning computer vision in mainstream applications.
  
  
• CENTRI Announces Immediate Availability of IoT Advanced Security for the Arm Mbed IoT Device Platform (Tuesday Oct. 17, 2017)
  CENTRI, a leading provider of advanced security for the Internet of Things today announced CENTRI Internet of Things Advanced Security – IoTAS now supports the Arm® Mbed™ IoT Device Platform.
  
  
• REFLEX CES Partners with NOLAM EMBEDDED SYTEMS to Provide Integrated CANbus IP Core Solutions on FPGA COTS Boards (Tuesday Oct. 17, 2017)
  NOLAM EMBEDDED SYSTEMS today announced their partnership with REFLEX CES. This partnership benefits customers by providing them a fully integrated solution based on REFLEX CES FPGA boards and NOLAM EMBEDDED SYSTEMS CANbus IP core and CANbus FMC module.
  
  
• CAST Introduces GZIP Accelerator Through New Intel FPGA Data Center Acceleration Ecosystem (Tuesday Oct. 17, 2017)
  A hardware accelerator that addresses the data compression and storage optimization needs of performance-critical data center applications is now available from semiconductor intellectual property provider CAST, Inc. This GZIP Accelerator Function is part of the expanded Intel® FPGA Design Solutions Network (DSN), of which CAST is an early member.
  
  
• NovaSparks introduces "U.S. Equities in a Box" solution (Tuesday Oct. 17, 2017)
  NovaSparks™, the leading field programmable gate array (FPGA) market data company, today announced that its pure FPGA ticker plant appliance, NovaTick, now processes the entire U.S. equity market in a single 2U appliance.
  
  
• NAGASE Partners with Accelize Extending FPGA Acceleration-as-a-Service to Complex Data Analytics (Tuesday Oct. 10, 2017)
  NAGASE & CO., LTD., a developer of an unique search engine, and Accelize, an enabler of FPGA Acceleration-as-a-Service, today announced that NAGASE will make its Axonerve™ search IP core available through the QuickAlliance™ network.
  
  
• Telco Systems, NXP and Arm Introduce New uCPE Offering (Tuesday Oct. 10, 2017)
  Telco Systems, the leading provider of innovative SDN/NFV, CE 2.0, MPLS and IP solutions, together with NXP Semiconductors (NASDAQ: NXPI), a worldwide leader in advanced secure connectivity solutions, today announced the industry's first Arm®-based uCPE solution available in the market.
  
  
• AImotive Highlights Significant Limitations In Hardware And Benchmarks For Fully Autonomous Vehicles (Monday Oct. 09, 2017)
  AImotive, the full-stack autonomous vehicle technology supplier, today announced the availability of its FPGA prototyping platform, designed to demonstrate the hardware acceleration potential of aiWare, using the company’s aiDrive software stack that targets Level 5 fully autonomous vehicles.
  
  
• New Development Kit from Xylon Accelerates Design of Embedded Multi-Camera Vision Systems (Monday Sep. 25, 2017)
  Xylon now offers a new hardware/software development kit that provides designers and system integrators with time and cost saving design tools to quickly implement embedded multi-camera systems for ADAS/AD, machine vision, AR/VR, guided robotics, drones and other vision applications.
  
  
• SEGGER Adds Support for SiFive's Coreplex IP to Its Industry Leading J-Link Debug Probe (Tuesday Sep. 19, 2017)
  SEGGER Microcontroller and SiFive today announced the availability of SEGGER J-Link support for SiFive Coreplex IP, based on the RISC-V architecture.
  
  
• HCC Embedded's Extensive Suite of Advanced Middleware Now Available for Xilinx Zynq-7000 SoCs (Thursday Sep. 14, 2017)
  HCC Embedded, experts in software for securely storing and communicating embedded data, has added support for the Xilinx Zynq®-7000 All Programmable system-on-chip (SoC) family of devices. Developers using Xilinx Zynq-7000 SoCs now have access to HCC’s entire suite of advanced flash storage and communications middleware.
  
  
• EEMBC Benchmark Verifies Energy Cost of Integrated Microcontroller Peripherals (Thursday Sep. 14, 2017)
  EEMBC today announced the availability of EEMBC ULPMark™-PeripheralProfile (ULPMark™-PP), a tool to measure the energy efficiency of microcontrollers (MCUs) and their commonly-used, programmable peripherals. The ULPMark-PP reveals how efficiently each MCU vendor has designed and implemented its integrated peripherals.
  
  
• Packet Partners with Arm to Accelerate Adoption of Armv8-A for Datacenter Workloads (Wednesday Sep. 13, 2017)
  Packet, the leading provider of automated bare metal for developers, today announced a partnership with Arm to support the rapidly expanding ecosystem for the Arm®v8-compatible architecture.
  
  
• BrainChip Introduces World's First Commercial Hardware Acceleration of Neuromorphic Computing (Tuesday Sep. 12, 2017)
  BrainChip Accelerator is an 8-lane, PCI-Express add-in card that increases the speed and accuracy of the object recognition function of BrainChip Studio software by up to six times, while increasing the simultaneous video channels of a system to 16 per card.
  
  
• V-Nova & NGCodec Deliver real-time UHDp60 Perseus Plus HEVC encoding on a single FPGA (Friday Sep. 08, 2017)
  V-Nova Ltd. & NGCodec® today announced the development of a joint FPGA encoding solution, which will deliver best-in-class UHD video bitrates and encoding cost reductions up to fifty times (50x) when compared against software HEVC - solution running on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
  
  
• Innosilicon Announces the World most efficient LTC Miner A4+, 550Mh, 750W (Wednesday Sep. 06, 2017)
  Innosilicon world class R & D team just updated our A4 model, launching the exciting new generation of globally leading miner in power and energy efficiency, the A4+ miner. As a prototype without much optimization, A4+ can already reach 550Mhs, at 750W. The prototype video is as below. A4+ and its subsequent series will be sure to lead the future market, as the powerful weapon of LTC miners.
  
  
• Synopsys and Morpho Collaborate to Accelerate Deep Learning Processing for Embedded Vision Applications (Tuesday Aug. 08, 2017)
  Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced a collaboration with Morpho, Inc. to optimize Morpho's computational photography software for Synopsys' DesignWare® EV6x Vision Processors.
  
  
• Azul Systems Collaborates with Qualcomm to Bring Enterprise-Grade Open Source Java on ARM to Datacenters (Monday Jul. 31, 2017)
  Azul Systems, Inc., in collaboration with Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, today announced the general availability of new versions of Zulu Enterprise and Zulu Embedded, a complete open source development and runtime platform for server-side Java applications, for the Qualcomm Centriq™ 2400 Server Processor. The new version of Zulu supports Java 8 and the ARM®v8-A architecture.
  
  
• Sierraware makes Global Platform compliant Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) available for MIPS-based devices (Monday Jul. 31, 2017)
  Imagination Technologies (IMG.L) and Sierraware, a pioneer in virtualization and security, announce they are collaborating to make Sierraware’s SierraTEE available for devices based on Imagination’s MIPS CPUs.
  
  
• OVH and Accelize Demonstrate the Value of FPGAs in the Cloud with GZIP Compression, from CAST, Achieving Acceleration Factors of >100x (Thursday Jul. 27, 2017)
  Accelize and OVH, in partnership with CAST, today announced the availability of GZIP compression on FPGA-as-a-service.com, the industry’s first online platform for FPGA acceleration evaluation that enables cloud users to evaluate FPGA acceleration for compute-intensive applications.
  
  
• Mentor supports Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC Platform with updated embedded platform release (Thursday Jul. 27, 2017)
  Mentor, a Siemens business, today announced an update to its market-leading embedded product portfolio with broad coverage for the Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC ZCU102 Evaluation Kit. This release provides developers with support for the unique combination of multicore processors on the MPSoC development platform with Mentor Embedded Linux, Nucleus RTOS, Mentor Embedded Hypervisor, Code Sourcery tools and Android support.
  
  
• Enhanced Open Source Framework Available for Parallel Programming on Embedded Multicore Devices (Monday Jul. 24, 2017)
  The Multicore Association has announced the availability of a significantly enhanced implementation of its Multicore Task Management API (MTAPI) integrated into an open source framework called Embedded Multicore Building Blocks (EMB2).