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• Vanguard Video Announces the Release of its New 64-Bit H.264 ARM Codec (Friday Apr. 10, 2015)
  Vanguard Video announced the availability of its NEW 64-bit optimized H.264 codec SDK for ARM based systems. By optimizing for this new mobile architecture, V.264-ARM64 is able to yield over a 20% increase in performance compared to an H.264 codec with 32-bit only support.
  
  
• Pathpartner Technology Announces Hybrid Hardware-Software HEVC Decoder Optimized for Programmable SoC Devices at NAB’15 (Thursday Apr. 09, 2015)
  Pathpartner Technology will be showcasing the Hybrid HEVC (H.265) Decoder partitioned optimally into ARM Cortex-A9 Software and FPGA Hardware on Xilinx Zynq®-7000 All Programmable SoCs at NAB’15. Our hybrid decoder uses the ARM CPU of Programmable SoC devices for highly sequential code like CABAC and hence uses less FPGA resources reducing power consumption and lowering cost.
  
  
• INSIDE Secure Introduces DRM Fusion Essential at the NAB Show 2015 (Wednesday Apr. 08, 2015)
  INSIDE’s DRM Fusion Essential has been developed for the premium content owners (Hollywood Studios, TV programmers, etc.) who will benefit from its acknowledged high security provided by INSIDE Secure’s content protection solutions.
  
  
• Mentor Graphics Announces Nucleus RTOS Safety Critical Certification (Tuesday Apr. 07, 2015)
  Mentor Graphics today announced the new Nucleus SafetyCert real time operating system (RTOS), targeting high-performance, next-generation applications for embedded devices designed to meet safety and reliability regulatory requirements for industrial, medical, and airborne systems.
  
  
• GIGABYTE Releases Its First ARM Server Solutions (Monday Apr. 06, 2015)
  GIGABYTE Technology, a leading creator of high performance server hardware, is happy to release its very first server products based on ARM architectures.
  
  
• PathPartner Technology Announces Availability of HEVC Solutions on Multiple Embedded and Server Platforms at NAB'15 (Friday Apr. 03, 2015)
  PathPartner Technology, will be introducing latest generation HEVC solutions on Intel server class platform which supports UHD resolution, real-time encoding and decoding up to 60 fps with bit rate of 16-20 Mbps range utilizing multi-core x86 architecture.
  
  
• Toshiba Broadens Offering Of ARM Cortex-M4F-Based Microcontrollers For Secure Communications Control (Friday Apr. 03, 2015)
  Toshiba America Electronic Components today added a new microcontroller (MCU) to its TX04 line of products based on the ARM® Cortex®-M4F processor.
  
  
• Integre Technologies Announces HyperLink Analyzer Development Kit (Thursday Apr. 02, 2015)
  Integre Technologies today announced the release of the HyperLink Analyzer Development Kit. The HyperLink Analyzer Kit is the only tool providing HyperLink developers with the ability to monitor HyperLink application performance in real-time.
  
  
• Accusonus Speech Enhancement Software Optimized for Tensilica HiFi Audio/Voice DSPs (Wednesday Apr. 01, 2015)
  Cadence and Accusonus today announced that the Accusonus Focus-MDR and Focus-DNR speech enhancement software has been ported to and optimized for the Cadence® Tensilica® HiFi Audio/Voice digital signal processors (DSPs).
  
  
• Actions Semiconductor Launches Open Source Platform SoC and Reference Design Platform (Wednesday Apr. 01, 2015)
  Actions Semiconductor today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Actions Technology released a new open source platform SoC, the S500, along with a reference design platform, the ActDuino S500, targeting the Android and Linux open source platform markets for a wide range of smart connected products, including digital display signage, kiosks, netbooks based on Android, pico projectors, children's educational devices, robot toys, and other differentiated consumer electronics.
  
  
• AppliedMicro and Codethink Announce Partnership to Accelerate Adoption of ARMv8-A Architecture (Monday Mar. 30, 2015)
  Applied Micro Circuits and Codethink today announced a joint collaboration to accelerate and foster the adoption of ARMv8-A architecture. As a first result of this collaboration, Codethink is now offering a complete big-endian Linux stack for the 64-bit ARMv8-A architecture, with support for multiple languages and runtime environments, including C, C++, Fortran, Java and Python.
  
  
• Atmel Breaks Ultra-low Power Performance Barriers With World's Lowest Power ARM Cortex-M based Solution (Monday Mar. 30, 2015)
  Atmel® today announced the company is sampling the industry’s lowest power ARM® Cortex®-M based solution with power consumption down to 35µA/MHz in active mode and 200nA in sleep mode.
  
  
• Texas Instruments introduces 32-bit MSP432 microcontrollers (MCUs): Ultra-low-power at its best, performance at its core (Wednesday Mar. 25, 2015)
  Texas Instruments today announced its MSP432™ microcontroller (MCU) platform, the industry’s lowest power 32-bit ARM® Cortex®-M4F MCUs. These new 48MHz MCUs leverage TI’s ultra-low-power MCU expertise to optimize performance without compromising power, while only consuming 95µA/MHz in active power and 850nA in standby power.
  
  
• Chukong Technologies and Imagination collaborate on the latest version of the Cocos2d-x game engine (Wednesday Mar. 18, 2015)
  Imagination Technologies and Chukong Technologies, creator and maintainer of the widely adopted open source game engine Cocos2d-x, announce that the latest version of Cocos2d-x has been fully optimized to run on devices with Imagination’s MIPS CPUs or PowerVR GPUs.
  
  
• MulticoreWare Brings Unprecedented Performance and Productivity to New Processor Platforms (Monday Mar. 16, 2015)
  
  
  
• DataCentred World First: OpenStack Public Cloud on 64-bit ARM Servers (Monday Mar. 16, 2015)
  DataCentred is delighted to announce that, in a world first, they have integrated servers running AppliedMicro's X-Gene™ ARM AArch64 processors into their OpenStack public cloud platform.
  
  
• Latest Synopsys Virtualizer Release Accelerates VDK Performance by Up to 5X for Early Software Development (Monday Mar. 16, 2015)
  Synopsys today announced availability of the latest release of its Virtualizer™ tool for creating Virtualizer Development Kits (VDKs), software development kits that use virtual prototypes as the embedded target to enable the fastest time to quality software.
  
  
• Silicon Labs and ARM Collaborate to Drive the Future of Low-Power ARM mbed IoT Device Platforms (Thursday Mar. 12, 2015)
  Silicon Labs today announced a collaboration with ARM to define and deliver the first power management application programming interfaces (API) for ARM® mbed™ platforms.
  
  
• IAR Systems shortens build times in leading development toolchain for ARM-based devices (Tuesday Mar. 10, 2015)
  
  
  
• Synopsys Announces VDK for Freescale S32V200 MCU Family for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems Development (Thursday Mar. 05, 2015)
  Synopsys today announced the availability of its Virtualizer™ Development Kit (VDK) for Freescale's S32V200 family of microcontrollers (MCUs). The VDK uses the S32V234 virtual prototype as an embedded target for early and more efficient software development, integration and test of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS).
  
  
• Linaro Enables Wider Portability of High Speed Networking Applications with Release of OpenDataPlane v1.0 (Wednesday Mar. 04, 2015)
  Linaro today announced the release of OpenDataPlane version 1.0. ODP is an open source, open contribution framework for portable, high performance data plane applications. Applications written to the ODP APIs can run on any ODP-enabled network compute platform, including SoC, general purpose processor or ASIC solutions
  
  
• ARM and Tencent Games Collaborate to Advance Mobile Gaming (Wednesday Mar. 04, 2015)
  ARM and Tencent Games today announced a strategic partnership aimed at enriching mobile gamers' graphic experiences. Through this partnership, Tencent mobile game developers will gain access to a wide range of leading-edge hardware, tools and expertise.
  
  
• Enlighten 3 with Forge puts Greater Control of Dynamic Lighting in the Hands of Artists (Wednesday Mar. 04, 2015)
  Geomerics, an ARM Company, today announced the release of the gaming industry's most advanced dynamic lighting solution yet, Enlighten 3 with Forge. Enlighten 3 delivers cinematic-quality dynamic lighting through an accurate real-time simulation of global illumination; or how light is transferred between surfaces in a scene.
  
  
• DTS Headphone:X Optimized for Cadence Tensilica HiFi Audio DSPs (Tuesday Mar. 03, 2015)
  Cadence today announced that DTS, Inc.’s Headphone:X™ immersive sound technology has been optimized for the Cadence® Tensilica® HiFi Audio/Voice digital signal processor (DSP) family.
  
  
• Waves MaxxVoice Technology Now Available for Cadence Tensilica HiFi Audio DSPs (Monday Mar. 02, 2015)
  Cadence and Waves today announced that the Waves MaxxVoice™ technology has been ported to and optimized for the Cadence® Tensilica® HiFi Audio/Voice digital signal processors (DSPs).
  
  
• Synopsys and Hillcrest Labs Announce Ultra-Low Power Sensor Processing Solution for Always-On Applications (Monday Mar. 02, 2015)
  Synopsys and Hillcrest Labs today announced that Hillcrest's Freespace® MotionEngine™ software optimized for Synopsys' DesignWare® Sensor and Control IP Subsystem. Hillcrest's MotionEngine software transforms sensor data into high quality, contextual information that powers sensor-enabled features on a wide range of devices.
  
  
• Synopsys and Sensory, Inc. Deliver Ultra-Low Power Voice Control Solution for Mobile, Automotive and Consumer Applications (Monday Mar. 02, 2015)
  Synopsys and Sensory, Inc. today announced availability of an optimized port of Sensory's TrulyHandsfree™ voice control software for the Synopsys DesignWare® ARC® EM DSP Processor Family.
  
  
• Waves Partners with CEVA to Offer the latest Sonic Enhancement Technologies for the Mobile Market (Monday Mar. 02, 2015)
  CEVA and Waves announced today that the companies have partnered to offer Waves' suite of audio, voice and speech enhancement algorithms for the CEVA-TeakLite-4 audio/voice family of DSPs.
  
  
• Cypher Partners with CEVA to Offer Innovative Noise Reduction Solution for Mobile, Wearables and Voice-activated Devices (Friday Feb. 27, 2015)
  CEVA and Cypher announced today that the companies have partnered to offer a noise reduction solution that dramatically improves user voice experience in smartphones, tablets and wearables, and greatly enhances speech recognition performance, in noisy environments.
  
  
• Cortus and Oryx enable Internet of Things SoC applications with IP v6 stack running on the full range of Cortus processor cores (Friday Feb. 27, 2015)