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• New EEMBC CoreMark-Pro Benchmark Bumps Processor Benchmarking Capabilities (Friday Feb. 27, 2015)
  EEMBC today announced the availability of CoreMark®-Pro, a comprehensive, advanced processor benchmark working with, and enhancing, the market-proven industry-standard EEMBC CoreMark benchmark.
  
  
• ARM Launches Intelligent Flexible Cloud Framework to Shape the Next-Generation Network (Friday Feb. 27, 2015)
  ARM today announced its vision for transforming network infrastructure to address the demands of content-rich mobile experiences and IoT-based services in the next decade. To achieve this vision, ARM has worked with its partners to provide operators and service providers with a new approach for an Intelligent Flexible Cloud (IFC) environment to meet the unyielding latency, power and size constraints for next-generation networks.
  
  
• Blunk Microsystems offers CrossStep IDE for Cortus Software Development (Friday Feb. 27, 2015)
  Cortus, a technology leader in low-power, silicon-efficient, 32-bit processor IP, and Blunk Microsystems, an embedded software supplier, announce the availability of Blunk’s CrossStep™ IDE and TargetOS™ real time operating system (RTOS) for the Cortus’ APS processor cores today.
  
  
• Synopsys' embARC Open Software Platform Accelerates Development of ARC-based Embedded Systems for the Internet of Things (Thursday Feb. 26, 2015)
  Synopsys today launched the embARC Open Software Platform to help accelerate the development of DesignWare® ARC® processor-based embedded systems. The new embARC platform gives ARC software developers online access to a comprehensive suite of free and open-source software that eases the development of code for the IoT and other embedded applications.
  
  
• INSIDE Secure Introduces HCE Payment Security Updates at Mobile World Congress 2015 (Thursday Feb. 26, 2015)
  INSIDE Secure today announced it will be revealing updates around its award winning products for Host Card Emulation (HCE) payments at Mobile World Congress 2015.
  
  
• Nabto offers its "Internet of Things" Communication Platform on Cortus-based Systems-on-Chips (Wednesday Feb. 25, 2015)
  Cortus and Nabto announce the availability of the uNabto communication platform on Cortus’ APS processor cores today. uNabto is a low-bandwidth Web server protocol that runs on any Cortus APS core and employs an innovative approach to bypassing firewalls and providing GUI-based Internet access to a wide range of embedded applications—using only 16 KB of Flash and less than 1 kB of RAM.
  
  
• Hillcrest Labs' Freespace Always-On Sensing Software Available on Cadence Tensilica DSP (Tuesday Feb. 24, 2015)
  Cadence and Hillcrest Labs today announced that a port of Hillcrest’s patented Freespace® always-on sensing software is now available for Cadence® Tensilica® digital signal processors (DSPs).
  
  
• Green Hills Software and Imagination Report Expanded Compiler and Tools Support for MIPS CPUs (Tuesday Feb. 24, 2015)
  Green Hills Software and Imagination Technologies today announced that the Green Hills tools and compilers now support an expanded range of Imagination's MIPS™ CPU IP.
  
  
• CAST Makes Evaluating 32-bit Processor IP Easier with Talos for BA20 Plus FreeRTOS (Tuesday Feb. 24, 2015)
  System designers looking to improve their product’s competitiveness or decrease its costs by making the smartest processor choice can find the best alternative quicker thanks to advances in the Talos™ Series Evaluation Kits from semiconductor IP provider CAST, Inc.
  
  
• ARM Connects a New World of Intelligent Devices to the Cloud (Tuesday Feb. 24, 2015)
  ARM today launched the ARM® mbed™ IoT Starter Kit - Ethernet Edition to channel data from Internet-connected devices directly into IBM's Bluemix cloud platform. The combination of a secure sensor environment by ARM with cloud-based analytics, mobile and application resources from IBM will allow fast prototyping of new smart products and unique value-added services.
  
  
• Express Logic's ThreadX To Bring Full RTOS to the ARM mbed Ecosystem (Tuesday Feb. 24, 2015)
  Express Logic announces that it plans to join the ARM mbed ecosystem for Internet of Things (IoT) product development.
  
  
• CEVA Announces Availability of Enhanced Voice Services (EVS) Codec for its Low Power Audio/Voice DSPs (Monday Feb. 23, 2015)
  Latest 3GPP VoLTE codec offers superb voice clarity and audio quality, requiring substantially higher DSP performance; Implementation for the CEVA-TeakLite family of DSPs offers best power and performance solution for smartphones and other mobile computing devices
  
  
• Multicore Association Provides Architecture Description Standard to Enhance Software Tool Support for Multicore and Manycore Processors (Thursday Feb. 19, 2015)
  
  
  
• Enea Linux and System Management on the ARMv8-Based AMD Embedded R-Series Processor (Tuesday Feb. 17, 2015)
  Enea announces Enea Linux support for the 64-bit AMD embedded R-Series system-on-chip (SoC) processor, codenamed “Hierofalcon”.
  
  
• Micrium and Cortus Announce new uC/OS-III Port to Cortus 32-bit Processor Cores (Tuesday Feb. 17, 2015)
  Micrium and Cortus today announced that Micrium's uC/OS-III has been ported to Cortus' 32-bit processor cores based on the company's v1 instruction set (APS1, APS3R, APS5 & FPS6) and v2 instruction set (APS23 & APS25).
  
  
• ARM and Green Hills Software Deliver Best in Class Automotive Performance (Monday Feb. 16, 2015)
  ARM and Green Hills Software announce they have collaborated on an optimized compiler for the ARM® Cortex®-R5 processor that delivers record-setting automotive performance, enabling the Cortex-R5 processor to meet the needs of the most challenging automotive applications more cost-effectively than any other MCU solution currently available.
  
  
• Linaro announces 96Boards initiative to accelerate ARM software development (Monday Feb. 09, 2015)
  96Boards is an open hardware specification for ARM 32-bit and 64-bit developer boards, and a Community Program for software delivery to developers, makers and OEMs
  
  
• Express Logic Extends X-Ware Platform Support (Monday Jan. 26, 2015)
  Express Logic has launched X-Ware Platform™,the company’s target-specific, integrated run-time software that combines all X-Ware components (ThreadX®, NetX™, USBX™, FileX®, GUIX™, and TraceX®) pre-ported and fully integrated for use on specific development boards.
  
  
• Safety Support Opens up Automotive, Health and Industrial Markets for ARM Cortex-R5 Processor (Thursday Jan. 22, 2015)
  ARM has delivered a comprehensive safety document set for the ARM® Cortex®-R5 processor to drive its adoption in safety-critical applications. This is a vital step toward the cost-effective deployment of more technically advanced systems across multiple sectors including automotive, health and industrial.
  
  
• IoT will fire up the Next Generation of Engineers say ARM and UCL (Wednesday Jan. 21, 2015)
  ARM is partnering with University College London (UCL) to launch a new education kit aimed at developing students' Internet of Things (IoT) technical skills. The aim is to encourage more graduates to stay in Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths (STEM) related professions as statistics suggest half leave the sector to pursue careers in unrelated areas.
  
  
• eInfochips and Toshiba Unveil Development Kits to Accelerate Development of Google Project Ara Modular Smartphones (Wednesday Jan. 14, 2015)
  eInfochips and Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) today unveiled the ARTOS12 Development Kit at the Project Ara Module Developers Conference 2015.
  
  
• Imagination's HelloSoft Integrated Communications Technology Achieves RCS Certification (Monday Jan. 12, 2015)
  Imagination Technologies announces that its HelloSoft Rich Communication Suite (RCS) client, an integrated multimedia communication solution, has been accredited by the GSMA.
  
  
• Luxoft Becomes Strategic Technology Partner of Imagination Technologies (Friday Jan. 09, 2015)
  Luxoft today announced that it is partnering with Imagination Technologies to enable Imagination’s partners to create high-performance and power-efficient solutions based on a PowerVR graphics processing unit (GPU) with strong GPU Compute performance.
  
  
• HARMAN Clari-Fi Music Restoration Technology Now Available on Cadence Tensilica HiFi Audio/Voice DSP Family (Wednesday Jan. 07, 2015)
  Cadence today announced that HARMAN’s Clari-Fi™ music restoration technology has been ported to the Cadence® Tensilica® HiFi Audio/Voice digital signal processor (DSP) family.
  
  
• Imagination announces PowerVR imaging framework for Android (Tuesday Jan. 06, 2015)
  Imagination Technologies announces a new PowerVR imaging framework for Android: a set of software components that allow OEMs to integrate the latest computational photography and computer vision features into their camera applications, leveraging the inherent low-power parallelism of the PowerVR Rogue GPU.
  
  
• OmniVision Announces Availability of Optimized Algorithm Library for ARM Mali GPU Technology (Tuesday Jan. 06, 2015)
  OmniVision Technologies today announced from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas the immediate availability of an OpenCL optimized imaging algorithm library ideally suited for ARM® Mali™ GPUs.
  
  
• eInfochips IdeaLab Designs Solution to make Automobiles Safer (Monday Dec. 29, 2014)
  eInfochips has announced availability of the new System on Module (SoM), and related engineering services for automotive companies to build safer vehicles.
  
  
• CSR unlocks the Internet of Things with ARM mbed OS connectivity (Thursday Dec. 18, 2014)
  CSR plc today announced details of its upcoming release of connectivity solutions for the new ARM® mbed™ operating system (OS) that will enable developers to produce complete Internet of Things (IoT) solutions with increasing speed and ease.
  
  
• CSR unlocks the Internet of Things with ARM mbed OS connectivity (Friday Dec. 18, 1998)
  
  
  
• CSR unlocks the Internet of Things with ARM mbed OS connectivity (Friday Dec. 18, 1998)
  CSR today announced details of its upcoming release of connectivity solutions for the new ARM® mbed™ operating system (OS) that will enable developers to produce complete Internet of Things (IoT) solutions with increasing speed and ease.