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• Imagination collaborates with Cascoda to bring innovative low-power wireless connectivity to the Creator Ci40 IoT development board (Monday Apr. 18, 2016)
  Imagination Technologies announces it has collaborated with Cascoda, a fabless supplier of low-power semiconductor radio devices, to bring Cascoda’s low-power, enhanced-range radio technology for IEEE 802.15.4 communications to Imagination’s Creator Ci40 microcomputer – the board at the heart of the Creator Ci40 IoT-in-a-Box development kit.
  
  
• INSIDE Secure and VisualOn Partner to Secure Over-The-Top Content Delivery and Playback Across Multiple Platforms (Wednesday Apr. 06, 2016)
  INSIDE Secure and VisualOn today announced that they are partnering to provide a secure multimedia player Software Development Kit (SDK) to allow the development and rollout of premium video applications supporting the most popular Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems across all Over-The-Top (OTT) platforms.
  
  
• Imagination announces latest PowerVR Graphics SDK including full support for new Vulkan API (Thursday Mar. 17, 2016)
  The PowerVR Graphics SDK v4.1 features a host of new functionality, examples and documentation, including full support for the new Vulkan™ 1.0 open standard API (Application Programming Interface) from Khronos
  
  
• Linaro announces ARM Based Developer Cloud (Monday Mar. 07, 2016)
  In collaboration with its silicon, server and software members, Linaro is providing developers with access to a cloud-based native ARM development environment, which can be used to design, develop, port and test server, cloud and IoT applications without substantial upfront hardware investment.
  
  
• Linaro announces support for 96Boards HiKey in AOSP (Monday Mar. 07, 2016)
  Linaro today announced that the 96Boards HiKey octa-core 64-bit ARMv8 community board is supported in AOSP (Android Open Source Project). Developers can now download source code from AOSP and create a working build without the need to pull patches from any other repository.
  
  
• New Titan IC Systems and Xanadata partnership means huge acceleration to analytics of data in network security solutions (Tuesday Mar. 01, 2016)
  Titan IC Systems, a pioneer in cyber security and a spin-out out of Queens’ University Belfast’s Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT), today announced is partnering with Xanadata, who design, develop and deploy custom systems that rapidly unlock information in unstructured data.
  
  
• Express Logic's X-Ware Secure Platform Provides Secure Solution for Information- and Safety-Sensitive IoT Devices (Tuesday Mar. 01, 2016)
  Express Logic, Inc., provider of the market-leading pre-certified, high-performance ThreadX® real-time operating system (RTOS), today announced its X-Ware Secure Platform™ for ARM Cortex®-M processors.
  
  
• Allegro DVT Launches AVS2 Compliance Streams (Wednesday Feb. 24, 2016)
  Allegro DVT, the leading provider of video codec compliance test suites and hardware video IPs, complements its extensive portfolio of video codecs test suites with the release of new AVS2 compliance streams which allow validation of AVS2 decoders with the latest version of this emerging video coding standard.
  
  
• ARM DS-5 Development Studio Extends Support for Functional Safety with LDRA's MISRA Compliance Tools (Tuesday Feb. 23, 2016)
  ARM today announced the integration of industry-leading MISRA (Motor Industry Software Reliability Association) conformance tools into the ARM® DS-5 Development Studio tool suite
  
  
• Cadence Announces the HiFi Integrator Studio (Monday Feb. 22, 2016)
  Cadence today announced the Cadence® HiFi Integrator Studio, an audio software framework that provides OEMs and application developers faster time to market when integrating Tensilica® HiFi DSP-based systems on chip (SoCs) into their products.
  
  
• Rambus Cryptography Research Extends CryptoManager Platform to Enable Secure In-Field Provisioning Services (Monday Feb. 22, 2016)
  Rambus today announced that its Cryptography Research division is extending its CryptoManager security platform from SoC management and device personalization to offer in-field feature and service provisioning capabilities for application developers and service providers.
  
  
• Synopsys and Intrinsic-ID Collaborate to Accelerate Implementation of Security for IoT Edge Devices (Thursday Feb. 18, 2016)
  Synopsys and Intrinsic-ID today announced the integration of Intrinsic-ID's PUF technology with Synopsys' DesignWare® ARC® EM Processors with SecureShield™ technology to enable efficient implementation of security functions such as authentication and device cloning prevention for low-power Internet-of-Things (IoT) edge devices.
  
  
• Synopsys and Cypherbridge Accelerate TLS Record Processing for IoT Communication with Optimized Hardware/Software Security Solution (Thursday Feb. 18, 2016)
  Synopsys today announced a collaboration with Cypherbridge Systems to optimize Cypherbridge's uSSL™ software development kit (SDK) for the Synopsys DesignWare® SSL/TLS/DTLS Security Protocol Accelerator (SPAcc). The joint solution enables the offload of cryptographic functions to dedicated hardware, giving system architects the ability to reallocate the CPU to other functions or use a smaller CPU.
  
  
• New support in Lauterbach TRACE32 tools makes it easy to debug designs combining MIPS and ARM CPUs (Wednesday Feb. 17, 2016)
  Imagination Technologies (IMG.L) and Lauterbach, the leading manufacturer of microprocessor development tools, announce that they are making it easy to use Lauterbach’s popular TRACE32 tools to debug MIPS heterogeneous CPU based systems or systems that combine MIPS CPUs with ARM CPUs.
  
  
• Kalray To Launch High Speed I/O Processors (Wednesday Feb. 10, 2016)
  Kalray today announced general availability of KONIC-80, a programmable smart NIC based on Bostan, its second generation many-core processor
  
  
• Mentor Graphics Expands Embedded Software Development Capabilities for Secure Industrial Applications (Tuesday Feb. 09, 2016)
  Mentor Graphics today announced that its Mentor® Embedded Linux® (MEL) platform has been updated to Yocto 2.0 and expanded to include new security enhancements and additional industrial protocols.
  
  
• Ensilica Launch New eSi IoT Board at IoT Expo (Tuesday Feb. 09, 2016)
  At the forthcoming Internet of Things (IoT) Tech Expo at London’s Olympia on the 10-11th February Ensilica will be demonstrating the new eSi IoT Board, a highly integrated, low-cost hardware platform for developing IoT solutions.
  
  
• eInfochips Announces 'IoT Xcelerator' - A Framework for Solutions Built on IoT Platforms (Tuesday Feb. 09, 2016)
  eInfochips has announced its Internet-of-Things (IoT) framework called 'IoT Xcelerator', aimed at product companies that are looking to monetize opportunities in a hyper-connected future which would thrive on billions of smart devices
  
  
• CEVA Accelerates Machine-to-Machine System Design with Communication Reference Platform (Monday Feb. 08, 2016)
  CEVA today introduced the Dragonfly™ reference platform to accelerate the design of low-data-rate machine-to-machine (M2M) and IoT communication applications, including standalone wearables, smart grid, surveillance systems, asset tracking, remote monitoring systems, connected cars and smart utilities.
  
  
• Barco Silex launches OEM board for pro AV market, enabling 4K/UHD HDMI transport over IP (Thursday Feb. 04, 2016)
  Barco Silex, the leading provider of FPGA-based video solutions – is breaking new ground with the introduction of an OEM board for the professional audio-visual market. The board enables the transport of HDMI video/audio over IP networks, including high-resolution video up to 4K/UHD over a single 1 Gb Ethernet cable.
  
  
• Google and Movidius to Enhance Deep Learning Capabilities in Next-Gen Devices (Thursday Jan. 28, 2016)
  Movidius, the leader in low-power machine vision for connected devices, today announced that it is working with Google to accelerate the adoption of deep learning within mobile devices. As part of the agreement, Google will source Movidius processors alongside the entire Movidius software development environment. In turn, Google will contribute to Movidius’ neural network technology roadmap.
  
  
• Linaro announces Software Reference Platform for ARM servers (Wednesday Jan. 27, 2016)
  Linaro Ltd, the collaborative engineering organization developing software for the ARM® architecture, today announced a complete open source Software Reference Platform for servers running on ARMv8-A processors.
  
  
• Silver Lining Systems to Bring the Calxeda Fabric to Hyper-scale Servers with AMD Opteron A1100 Processor (Wednesday Jan. 27, 2016)
  Silver Lining® Systems (SLS) today announced new fabric interconnects that dramatically reduces the cost of high bandwidth networking for large datacenters. SLS also announced that they are building their next generation servers using the newly released AMD Opteron™ A1100 ARM-based system-on-chip (SoC).
  
  
• Allegro DVT Launches Industry's First HEVC Scalable Extension (SHVC) Compliance Streams (Monday Jan. 18, 2016)
  Allegro DVT announces the immediate availability of HEVC Scalability Extension (a.k.a. SHVC) test suites to help manufacturers developing SHVC compliant decoders validate the conformance of their implementation with the SHVC standard.
  
  
• Brite Semiconductor Brings Audio/Voice DSP Reference Design Platform to Low-Power "Smart and Connected" Devices (Monday Jan. 18, 2016)
  The Audio/Voice DSP Reference Design Platform, developed based on a CEVA-TeakLite-4 DSP core, combines multiple sensing, processing and connectivity technologies, enabling rapid system prototyping for mobile, wearable and smart home to reduce risks and time-to-market of SoC designs.
  
  
• Rambus Cryptography Research Launches CryptoMedia Platform to Provide Secure Access to Premium Digital Entertainment (Friday Jan. 15, 2016)
  Rambus today announced that its Cryptography Research division has launched the CryptoMedia security platform. This platform will protect 4K UHD and High Dynamic Range (HDR) programming, while enabling consumers to easily store, copy and share premium digital content across multiple devices.
  
  
• Ittiam enables OpenCL based VP9 Encode for Mobile and Consumer Applications (Wednesday Jan. 13, 2016)
  Ittiam Systems announces innovative, industry-first OpenCL-based VP9 Video Encoding on processors designed for Smartphones and Tablets.
  
  
• NeuroSky Uses ARM Mobile Tech to Enable Secure Remote Patient Monitoring (Monday Jan. 11, 2016)
  NeuroSky has created a cost-effective and secure medical monitoring solution that could radically improve remote patient care for people with long term chronic illnesses. The company is working with processor design company ARM, whose technology is in almost all smartphones, to introduce a trusted system that allows the user full control over their data while giving clinicians access to vital information that could help keep patients healthy and out of hospital.
  
  
• Annapurna Labs, an Amazon Company, Announces Availability of Home Network and Storage Platform-on-Chip and Subsystem Solutions (Thursday Jan. 07, 2016)
  Annapurna Labs, an Amazon.com company, today announced the Alpine platform-on-chip and subsystems product line that enables original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and service providers to deliver next-generation digital services for home gateways, Wi-Fi routers, and Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices.
  
  
• INSIDE Secure DRM Fusion Adds Support for Google Widevine Modular DRM System (Thursday Jan. 07, 2016)
  INSIDE Secure today announced it is enhancing its award-winning Digital Rights Management (DRM) Fusion solution with support for Google’s Widevine DRM system.