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• Synopsys Releases New Version of Coverity Static Analysis Tool with Enhanced Security for Mobile and Web Applications (Thursday Jan. 19, 2017)
  Synopsys today announced a new 8.7 version of its Coverity® static analysis tool with enhanced security analysis for mobile and web applications. Along with the recent acquisitions of Cigital and Codiscope, the latest version of the Coverity tool will provide Synopsys customers with the enterprise-level security analysis and broad programming language support necessary to address today's evolving application security demands.
  
  
• Automotive safety hypervisor announced for ARM Cortex-R52 (Wednesday Jan. 18, 2017)
  OpenSynergy is developing the industry's first software hypervisor for the ARM® Cortex®-R52 processor, ARM's most advanced real-time safety processor. The hypervisor turns any chip based on the Cortex-R52 into several virtual machines capable of simultaneously executing separate software tasks.
  
  
• Mantaro Introduces an Advanced Development Platform for the Altera Arria 10 SoC (Wednesday Jan. 18, 2017)
  Mantaro Networks announced today the launch of an Altera Arria 10 SoC 10AS066 based standalone development platform. The Arria 10 SoC development platform has a compact footprint (8.5” x 6.75”) that is available as a standalone board or in a custom 1U enclosure.
  
  
• Creonic Announces FMC Board with L-Band RF Input for Satellite Applications (Monday Jan. 09, 2017)
  Creonic today announced the availability of its FMC board with L-band RF input for Q2/2017. The card allows for building satellite receivers with throughputs of up to 800 Mbit/s. It complements Creonic’s proven portfolio of IP cores covering a wide range of standards for satellite communication such as DVB-S2X, DVB-RCS2 or CCSDS.
  
  
• Almalence Video SuperSensor Software Now Improves Video Image Quality Powered by Cadence Tensilica Vision DSP (Monday Jan. 09, 2017)
  Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced that Almalence, a leader in computational imaging, has collaborated with Cadence to port their Video SuperSensor video image quality improvement software to the Cadence® Tensilica® Vision DSP.
  
  
• Waves Nx Now Available on ARM-Based Platforms (Thursday Jan. 05, 2017)
  Waves Audio’s award-winning virtual reality (VR) audio solution is now available on platforms based on ARM® Cortex®-A processors. Integrating the Waves Nx processor into Cortex-A based Android devices will enable end users to experience surround, 360° and VR audio content with unprecedented sound quality – using any set of regular headphones.
  
  
• DeepGlint Harness the Power of CEVA-XM4 Imaging and Vision Platform for Intelligent Video Analytic and ADAS Solutions (Thursday Jan. 05, 2017)
  CEVA and DeepGlint Technology announced today that DeepGlint has made available its industry-leading security surveillance and intelligent traffic algorithms on the CEVA imaging and vision platform.
  
  
• Cadence and Dolby Collaborate to Enable the World's First TVs Featuring Dolby Atmos Technology (Thursday Jan. 05, 2017)
  Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced its collaboration with Dolby Laboratories to enable the world’s first TVs featuring Dolby® Atmos® technology based on the Dolby MS12 v2.0 Multistream Decoder. The MS12 v2.0 Multistream Decoder is an early adopter release for the Cadence® Tensilica® HiFi DSP core for System-on-Chip (SoC) designs.
  
  
• Retune DSP Multi-Microphone Beamforming and Echo Cancellation Now Available for Cadence Tensilica HiFi Audio DSPs (Wednesday Jan. 04, 2017)
  Cadence and Retune DSP today announced that Retune DSP’s multi-microphone beamforming and echo cancellation technology has been ported and optimized to Cadence® Tensilica® HiFi DSPs for Audio/Voice/Speech.
  
  
• ARM Adds DSR Corporation ZBOSS ZigBee 3.0 Stack to Its Cordio Radio IP (Tuesday Jan. 03, 2017)
  DSR Corporation has announced that ZBOSS ZigBee® 3.0 Stack is now a part of the ARM Internet of Things (IoT) offering, enhancing ARM® Cordio® radio IP for ZigBee-powered solutions.
  
  
• NGCodec uses Amazon EC2 F1 instances with custom FPGAs running 4k Video Compression (Thursday Dec. 01, 2016)
  NGCodec® (Sunnyvale, CA), a pioneering company focused on FPGA-based H.265/HEVC video codec development, today announced that it will use the new Amazon EC2 F1 instance in the development of RealityCodec™ for hardware-accelerated AWS Cloud-based video encoding and VR / AR processing.
  
  
• CEVA and NextG-Com Partner to offer Integrated LTE Cat-M1 and Cat-NB1 Solutions for Cost-Sensitive IoT applications (Thursday Nov. 17, 2016)
  CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA), the leading licensor of signal processing IPs for smarter, connected devices, and NextG-Com Limited (NextG-Com), today introduced two pre-integrated narrowband LTE solutions designed to simplify the development of Cat-M1 and Cat-NB1 (NB-IoT) modems for cost-sensitive Internet of Things (IoT) applications.
  
  
• Packet Introduces Global ARMv8-A Bare Metal Cloud to Power Container and IoT Workloads (Tuesday Nov. 15, 2016)
  Packet, the leading bare metal cloud for developers, today announced a new ARM®v8-A based on-demand server configuration, available to deploy in less than ten minutes from its data centers in Parsippany (NJ), Sunnyvale (CA), Amsterdam (NL) and Tokyo (JP).
  
  
• Denso to launch joint research on multithreaded CPU cores with Imagination Technologies (Monday Nov. 14, 2016)
  DENSO Corporation today announced that it and Imagination Technologies are undertaking joint research on hardware multithreading that enables a processor (CPU) to execute multiple processes concurrently. The companies agree that this technology can provide an advantage for next-generation in-vehicle electronic systems.
  
  
• ARM and US TrustedCare Inc., partner to integrate wearable and medical devices for accountable care (Monday Nov. 14, 2016)
  US TrustedCare Inc., an Austin based digital health company, and ARM, the world's leading semiconductor IP company, are collaborating to enable new medical devices for the emerging accountable health care sector.
  
  
• Excelsior's Ahead-Of-Time Java Compiler Now Available For ARM Platforms (Monday Nov. 07, 2016)
  Excelsior LLC has announced today the general availability of its first product for Java developers targeting ARM-based devices, Excelsior JET Embedded 11.3 for Linux/ARM.
  
  
• Mentor Graphics Expands Mentor Embedded Linux Support for the latest AMD Embedded G-series Family of Processors (Wednesday Nov. 02, 2016)
  Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced the availability of expanded processor support from the Mentor® Embedded Linux® development platform for the third generation of AMD’s Embedded G-Series system-on-chip (SoC) portfolio.
  
  
• ARM meets Generation Z demand for richer mobile VR and 4K streaming experiences (Monday Oct. 31, 2016)
  ARM has launched two new products designed to address Generation Z and mainstream demands for more immersive and interactive visual content on mobile devices. The two new products are; the Mali-V61 video processing unit (VPU) for stunning, real-time 4K120 video performance with impressive efficiency and scalability and the Mali-G51 graphics processing unit (GPU), ARM's most area-efficient and energy-efficient GPU to date.
  
  
• Advantech and ARM partner on end-to-end IoT Platform, from device to cloud (Thursday Oct. 27, 2016)
  Global intelligent systems leader Advantech (2395.TW) today announced at its Embedded IoT Partner Summit that it is partnering with ARM on the ARM® mbed™ Cloud service and the mbed IoT Device Platform. By combining Advantech and ARM technologies, this collaboration will accelerate the deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for businesses across a range of sectors.
  
  
• Green Hills Software Extends Support for ARMv8-M Architecture (Thursday Oct. 27, 2016)
  Green Hills Software today announced its capabilities for the new ARMv8-M architecture, featuring ARM® Cortex®-M23 and Cortex-M33 cores, based on its broad and proven portfolio of high-performance development tools, real-time operating systems (RTOS) and defense-in-depth security services.
  
  
• GlobalSign and Intrinsic-ID Deliver Scalable Hardware-Rooted Device Identities for the IoT Ecosystem (Wednesday Oct. 26, 2016)
  GMO GlobalSign, a leading provider of identity and security solutions for the Internet of Everything (IoE), and Intrinsic-ID, the leader in embedded authentication based on Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) announced today that they are partnering to provide original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) scalable, flexible and affordable security for the Internet of Things (IoT).
  
  
• Allegro DVT Enriches its Video Decoder Verification Packages With The Release of Multi-Codec Coverage Tool (Tuesday Oct. 25, 2016)
  Allegro DVT, the leading provider of video codec compliance test suites and hardware video IPs, today unveiled a new multi-codec coverage tool which perfectly complements its comprehensive test streams offerings for video decoders verification.
  
  
• Zebra Technologies, Bosch Connected Devices and Solutions and ARM Collaborate on Enterprise-Class Food Safety Solution to Better Protect Consumers (Tuesday Oct. 25, 2016)
  Zebra Technologies, a global leader in providing solutions and services that give enterprises real-time visibility into their operations, today announced that it is collaborating with Bosch Connected Devices and Solutions and ARM to offer a next- generation food safety solution.
  
  
• New NEMA|GFX Graphics API Enhances Rapid High Quality GUI Development for Embedded and Wearable Devices (Friday Oct. 21, 2016)
  Think Silicon announced the NEMA|GFX API (Application Programming Interface) designed to accelerate high quality Graphics User Interface (GUI) development for embedded and wearable devices.
  
  
• S2C's Latest Prodigy Interface Module For Juno ARM Development Platform Speeds FPGA Prototyping And Increases Scalability (Tuesday Oct. 18, 2016)
  S2C has announced the availability of its new Prodigy Juno ARM Interface Module. The module works with the Juno ARM® Development Platform, speeding up and increasing the scalability of FPGA prototyping for designs based on ARMv8-A architecture.
  
  
• Canonical and ARM collaborate to offer commercial availability of Ubuntu OpenStack and Ceph for 64-bit ARM-based servers (Monday Oct. 17, 2016)
  Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, the leading platform and operating system for container, cloud and scale-out computing, and ARM, the industry's leading semiconductor IP company, announced today that Ubuntu OpenStack and Ceph are now commercially available and supported on processors and servers based on 64-bit ARM®v8-A architecture.
  
  
• Mentor Graphics Announces 64-bit ARMv8-A Support for the Nucleus Real-Time Operating System (Tuesday Oct. 04, 2016)
  Mentor Graphics today announced the Nucleus real-time operating system (RTOS) support for the 64-bit ARMv8-A architecture. This architecture support enables the Nucleus RTOS to leverage the benefits of 64-bit processing for a full range of 64-bit SoCs.
  
  
• Intrinsic-ID and Guardtime Announce Alliance on IOT Blockchain (Monday Oct. 03, 2016)
  Guardtime and Intrinsic-ID today announced an alliance to deliver customer solutions combining Intrinsic-ID’s SRAM Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Guardtime’s Keyless Signature Infrastructure (KSI) Blockchain technology, providing a new level of security and governance for the Internet of Things.
  
  
• INSIDE Secure and Marvell Deliver Open Source Open Data Plane Security VPN Solution (Friday Sep. 30, 2016)
  INSIDE Secure today announced the Marvell-INSIDE Secure solution, a collaboration that provides open source Open Data Plane (ODP) security API support on Marvell’s ARMADA® 8K and ARMADA 7K System-on-Chip (SoC) families with embedded INSIDE Secure Security Protocol Accelerator IP technology.
  
  
• Linaro Announces LITE - Collaborative Software Engineering for the Internet of Things (IoT) (Tuesday Sep. 27, 2016)
  Working in collaboration with industry leaders, LITE will focus on delivering end to end open source reference software for more secure connected products, ranging from sensors and connected controllers to smart devices and gateways, for the industrial and consumer markets.