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• Linaro Announces First Development Board Compliant with 96Boards IoT Edition Specification (Tuesday Sep. 27, 2016)
  Linaro today at Linaro Connect Las Vegas 2016 announced availability of the 96Boards ‘Carbon’ board – the first development board compliant with the 96Boards IoT Edition (IE) specification.
  
  
• Ashling and Synopsys Collaborate to Accelerate Development and Debugging of Software for ARC-Based Embedded Systems (Monday Sep. 19, 2016)
  Ashling Microsystems Limited today announced a new strategic collaboration with Synopsys Inc., which covers the design, provision and support of next-generation development tools dedicated to Synopsys’ DesignWare® ARC® processor families.
  
  
• Cadence Tensilica HiFi DSP Offers First processor IP Approved for Dolby AC-4 Decoder (Monday Sep. 12, 2016)
  Cadence today announced immediate availability of the Dolby Laboratories' AC-4 Decoder supporting next-generation audio and video entertainment services, including ATSC 3.0 broadcasting and internet streaming on Cadence® Tensilica® HiFi DSPs. Tensilica HiFi DSPs are the first processors for system-on-chip (SoC) designs approved for using the Dolby® AC-4 Decoder.
  
  
• Cadence Offers Industry's First Licensable MPEG-H Audio Decoder for Tensilica HiFi DSPs (Monday Sep. 12, 2016)
  Cadence today announced immediate availability of the next-generation MPEG-H Audio decoder based on Cadence® Tensilica® HiFi DSPs. MPEG-H Audio is a future broadcast standard and is expected to be one of the key audio technologies adopted worldwide for new TVs.
  
  
• Argon Design releases Argon Streams ARIB (Friday Sep. 09, 2016)
  
  
  
• IAR Systems expands ARM tools for developers focused on the Internet of Things (Thursday Sep. 08, 2016)
  IAR Systems® announces an expansion of its wide range of supported microcontrollers (MCUs) in the complete development toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench® for ARM®.
  
  
• Allegro DVT Unveils Industry's First ATSC3.0 System Compliance Test Suite at IBC 2016 (Wednesday Sep. 07, 2016)
  Allegro DVT today announced a new ATSC3.0 system test suite which will help silicon vendors and ATSC3.0 device manufacturers validate their implementations of products aimed at this new standard.
  
  
• Newracom and Aviacomm Announce Availability of High-performance 802.11ah Reference Design for IoT Applications using Sub-1GHz ISM Frequency Bands (Wednesday Sep. 07, 2016)
  Aviacomm Inc, a leading developer of integrated RF (radio frequency) circuits and Newracom Inc., a wireless solutions innovator, have combined efforts to develop a high-performance IEEE 802.11ah modem for M2M and IoT applications.
  
  
• Linaro Announces First Development Board Compliant with 96Boards TV Platform Specification (Tuesday Aug. 30, 2016)
  Linaro Ltd, the collaborative engineering organization developing open source software for the ARM® architecture, today announced support for the HiSilicon ‘Poplar’ board – the first development board compliant with the 96Boards Enterprise Edition TV Platform specification.
  
  
• Irida Labs' NoiseSweeper and EnLight Software Now Available on Cadence Tensilica Imaging/Vision DSPs (Tuesday Aug. 23, 2016)
  Cadence and Irida Labs today announced that Irida Labs’ IRIS-EnLight and IRIS-NoiseSweeper technologies are now available on the Cadence® Tensilica® Vision family of digital signal processors (DSPs).
  
  
• Aldec Delivers Verification Support for Embedded Applications with New TySOM Embedded Development Kit (Wednesday Aug. 17, 2016)
  Aldec today announced the release of TySOM™ Embedded Development Kit (EDK). The TySOM EDK targets embedded designers who require a platform with higher-performance RTL simulation and debugging for developing leading-edge embedded applications for IoT, Computer Vision, Automotive, Robotics and Factory Automation.
  
  
• Orange Tree announces SuperSpeed USB 3.0 FPGA module (Thursday Aug. 11, 2016)
  Orange Tree Technologies today announced the ZestSC3, an easy to use FPGA module with a Xilinx Artix-7 user-programmable FPGA and a very high performance SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface.
  
  
• Kalray Launches Krypto128 Accelerator Card (Tuesday Aug. 09, 2016)
  Kalray today announced general availability of the Krypto128, a programmable acceleration card based on “Bostan,” its 2nd generation MPPA® high-speed I/O processor.
  
  
• MicroEJ Accelerates the Creation of IoT Software for ARM Cortex-M and Cortex-A Processors (Thursday Jul. 28, 2016)
  MicroEJ enables software developers to write applications that deliver a rich IoT user experience and can run across ARM® Cortex® processor families
  
  
• SafeZone IoT Security Framework from INSIDE Secure delivers an integrated suite of products that addresses the broad spectrum of critical IoT security needs (Monday Jul. 25, 2016)
  INSIDE Secure, a leader in embedded security solutions for mobile and connected devices, today announced its SafeZone™ IoT Security Framework, which delivers all of the basic security ingredients needed to build a secure device.
  
  
• OTOY and Imagination unveil breakthrough PowerVR Ray Tracing hardware platform for cinematic real time rendering (Friday Jul. 22, 2016)
  OTOY, Inc and Imagination Technologies are thrilled to announce a breakthrough hardware accelerated rendering platform that integrates Imagination’s PowerVR Ray Tracing technology with OTOY’s forthcoming OctaneRender 4 software for VR, games and cinematic content creation.
  
  
• Synopsys' New HAPS Adaptor for Juno ARM Development Platform Accelerates Software Bring-up (Wednesday Jul. 06, 2016)
  Synopsys today announced a new HAPS adaptor that enables a HAPS FPGA-based Prototyping System to easily connect to a Juno ARM Development Platform.
  
  
• Barefoot Networks Unveils Breakthrough Switching Technology: the World's First Fully Programmable Switches That Also Happen to Be the Fastest Switches Ever Built (Tuesday Jul. 05, 2016)
  Barefoot Networks launched today from stealth, revealing pioneering technology and setting multiple networking records. Not only is the company announcing the fastest switch ever built, but also, and perhaps more importantly, the first switches ever to be fully user-programmable.
  
  
• Imagination and 3Glasses collaborate to promote ray tracing technology for virtual reality devices (Wednesday Jun. 29, 2016)
  Imagination Technologies (IMG.L) and China-based 3Glasses announce they are collaborating to promote ray tracing technology in mass-market consumer virtual reality (VR) devices. 3Glasses, product brand of Virtual Reality (VR) Technology Ltd., is a provider of innovative VR devices.
  
  
• Achronix Introduces the Highest FPGA Memory Bandwidth, PCIe Acceleration Board for Data Center Applications (Tuesday Jun. 21, 2016)
  Achronix Semiconductor Corporation today announced the availability of the new PCIe form factor Accelerator-6D accelerator board which is the industry’s highest single-FPGA memory bandwidth, PCIe add-in card for high-speed data center acceleration applications
  
  
• Small footprint open source hypervisor makes highly efficient use of hardware virtualization technology in Imagination's MIPS CPUs (Monday Jun. 13, 2016)
  Imagination Technologies (IMG.L) and Kernkonzept announce that the latest release of the open source L4Re hypervisor now supports Imagination’s OmniShield™ ready MIPS CPUs. The small footprint L4Re hypervisor, maintained by Kernkonzept, can take advantage of the hardware virtualization technology in MIPS CPUs for more efficient context switching and better use of CPU cycles, leading to improved application headroom.
  
  
• Xylon Announces Latest Release of the logiADAK Kit for Vision-Based ADAS (Thursday Jun. 09, 2016)
  Xylon, today introduced a new version of its Xilinx Zynq®-7000 All Programmable SoC based logiADAK 3.2 development kit for vision-based Advanced Driver Assistance (ADAS) applications, featuring a broad set of new and enhanced capabilities which enables OEM automakers and Tier-1 automotive electronics suppliers to jump-start next-generation ADAS system development.
  
  
• Andes Technology Corporation Announces Quick-Start Design Package That Significantly Reduces Time to Market of SoC Designs (Wednesday Jun. 08, 2016)
  Andes Technology Corporation, the leading Asia-based supplier of small, low-power, high performance 32-bit embedded CPU cores, today announced the Quick-Start Design Package, a complete solution that significantly reduces time to market for SoC designs.
  
  
• EnSilica and Micrium partner to port µC/OS-III RTOS to eSi-RISC processor cores (Monday Jun. 06, 2016)
  EnSilica, a leading independent provider of semiconductor solutions and IP, and Micrium, the premier real-time operating system (RTOS) provider for embedded systems and the Internet of Things (IoT), have partnered to successfully port Micrium’s µC/OS-III® RTOS to EnSilica’s family of eSi-RISC processor cores.
  
  
• Optimised cryptographic solution for home automation on Cortus APS3RP core (Wednesday May. 25, 2016)
  Oberon’s highly efficient cryptographic code, a key component of its OberonHAP product, has been ported to and optimised for the Cortus APS3RP 32-bit IP core. The combination of the tiny software memory footprint and minimalist processor core is well suited to secure ASICs in battery-powered home automation devices.
  
  
• Imec, Holst Centre and Barco Silex Collaborate on Data Security for Wearables and Internet of Things Networks (Wednesday May. 25, 2016)
  The world-leading nanoelectronics research center imec, Holst Centre (set up by imec and TNO) and micro-electronic design house Barco Silex, belonging to the Barco group, today announced that they will collaborate to implement data security into sensors for wearable devices and Internet of Things (IoT) sensor networks. The organizations are coming together to bring data security for the IoT to the next level.
  
  
• Alizem releases new Safe Engine Stop-Start Software IP to improve energy-efficiency of delivery vehicles (Tuesday May. 24, 2016)
  Alizem is proud to announce the release of its new Safe Engine Stop-Start Embedded Software IP meant to radically reduce fuel consumption and GHG emissions of vehicles that are running on idle for long periods of time such as delivery vehicles, police cars or industrial trucks.
  
  
• Imagination accelerates Debian development for 64-bit MIPS CPUs (Thursday May. 19, 2016)
  Imagination Technologies announces it is working with the Debian Project to accelerate development of the popular, open source Debian operating system (OS) for the 64-bit MIPS architecture. Imagination is donating several high-performance SDNA-7130 appliances to the Debian Project for port development and maintenance.
  
  
• Uurmi Fog Removal Software Now Available on Cadence Tensilica Vision DSPs (Monday May. 16, 2016)
  Cadence and Uurmi Systems today announced that Uurmi’s fog removal software targeted for automotive and camera markets is now available on the Cadence® Tensilica® Vision digital signal processor (DSP). By porting their fog removal software to the Tensilica Vision DSP, Uurmi achieved up to 5X higher performance, with 15X less power consumption.
  
  
• Algo-Logic Systems Launches FPGA Accelerated CME Tick-To-Trade System (Wednesday May. 11, 2016)
  Algo-Logic Systems announces the release of their latest Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) accelerated CME Tick-To-Trade (T2T) System. The sub-microsecond trading solution is ideal for latency-sensitive trading firms that need deterministic response times to market opportunities.