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• ARM Extends OpenCL to the ARM Cortex-A Processor Family (Tuesday Sep. 30, 2014)
  Today ARM® announced OpenCL™ for ARM NEON™ technology. This enables the use of the OpenCL framework on ARM Cortex®-A processors. Alongside the already supported ARM Mali™ GPUs, OpenCL for NEON now enables heterogeneous multiprocessing on any Cortex-A based device.
  
  
• ARM Announces Debug Probe for High-Speed Serial Trace (Tuesday Sep. 30, 2014)
  ARM today announced support for the ARM® High-Speed Serial Trace Port (HSSTP) specification and the Marvell® SETM protocol in ARM DS software development tools.
  
  
• IAR Systems dominates the tools market for ARM Cortex-M with leading code efficiency (Tuesday Sep. 30, 2014)
  IAR Systems® announces that its ARM® development tools continue to deliver the market’s best performance for ARM Cortex®-M microcontrollers. CoreMark® benchmark scores for the new ARM Cortex-M7 core adds to a row of unbeaten performance records for the highly optimizing IAR C/C++ Compiler™ for microcontrollers based on the ARM Cortex-M processor family.
  
  
• HP Extends Benefits of ARM Architecture Into the Datacenter With New Servers (Monday Sep. 29, 2014)
  HP today announced two ARM®-based servers, including the first enterprise-class 64-bit ARM-based server, for customers that value choice in their compute strategy. Additionally, HP is making available a production-ready platform to enable software developers to develop, test and port applications to the 64-bit ARM-based server.
  
  
• Freescale Plans Extreme Performance for Kinetis MCUs with ARM Cortex-M7 Core (Wednesday Sep. 24, 2014)
  Freescale Semiconductortoday announced its support for the recently unveiled ARM Cortex-M7 core, which Freescale plans to leverage for new levels of performance and power efficiency in forthcoming embedded SoCs. A leading ARM partner and an early adopter of multiple ARM products, Freescale was the first to market with MCUs based on the Cortex-M4 and Cortex-M0+ cores.
  
  
• PathPartner Technology Announces Industry's First Hybrid Hardware-Software HEVC Decoder Optimized for Programmable SoC Devices (Wednesday Sep. 24, 2014)
  PathPartner Technology announces the availability of Industry's First Hybrid HEVC (H.265) Decoder partitioned optimally into ARM Cortex-A9 Software and FPGA Hardware on Xilinx Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoCs.
  
  
• IAR Embedded Workbench delivers outstanding performance for new ARM Cortex-M7 core (Wednesday Sep. 24, 2014)
  IAR Systems® launches version 7.30 of IAR Embedded Workbench® for ARM® with full support for the new ARM Cortex®-M7 processor core. The processor brings high performance and efficient processing to support devices featuring embedded intelligence across the industrial, infrastructure and domestic sectors.
  
  
• Ittiam Systems Introduces 'Clove' - Second Generation Hardware Platform in neonCaster Family for Low-Power Multimedia Applications (Friday Sep. 12, 2014)
  Ittiam Systems announced the addition of new hardware platform to its neonCaster family. Named ‘Clove’, the platform is based on the latest generation ARM® Cortex®-A15 processor from Texas Instruments and is suitable for most low-power multimedia applications in Industrial & Defense, Automotive and Broadcast segments.
  
  
• Elliptic Technologies and CableLabs Brings Secure Premium Content Protection to Any Device (Thursday Sep. 11, 2014)
  Elliptic Technologies today announced their joint development with CableLabs to provide a reference implementation for DLNA’s CVP-2 (Commercial Video Profile - 2) specifications, now under the new brand of VidiPath Certification program, using Elliptic’s tVault™ for DTCP-IP content protection
  
  
• Tabula Ships Family of 100G Development Systems (Wednesday Sep. 10, 2014)
  Tabula Inc., has announced its first shipments to customers of its 100G development systems based upon the industry's first 22 nm 3D programmable logic device (3PLD) manufactured by Intel.
  
  
• INSIDE Secure and Digisoft.tv make set-top-box Digital Rights Management easy, with the launch of a PlayReady Encrypted Media Extension implementation (Monday Sep. 08, 2014)
  Digisoft.tv, the specialist middle applications company, and INSIDE Secure, providers of comprehensive embedded security solutions, announce today that they have launched a reference Encrypted Media Extension (EME) implementation on Digisoft.tv’s Iris HTML5 OS middleware application.
  
  
• prpl Foundation Announces 'Quick EMUlator' (QEMU) Support for Imagination's New 64-bit MIPS Processors (Friday Sep. 05, 2014)
  prpl Foundation, the recently established open-source non-profit foundation focused on enabling next-generation datacenter-to-device portable software and virtualized architectures, today announced QEMU (CPU emulation and virtualization) support for the MIPS Release 6 (r6) architecture from Imagination Technologies.
  
  
• Inside Secure to Demonstrate Trusted Over-the-Top (OTT) Solutions at IBC 2014 (Thursday Sep. 04, 2014)
  INSIDE Secure today announced it will be attending the 2014 IBC Exhibition to demonstrate Over-the-Top (OTT) solutions on popular OSs.
  
  
• Mentor Graphics Announces Embedded Hypervisor Product With New Configuration, Debugging and Hardware Support (Thursday Sep. 04, 2014)
  Mentor Graphics today announced its newest version of the Mentor® Embedded Hypervisor product offering advanced features for system configuration, debugging, and hardware support for developing robust, reliable, and secure applications.
  
  
• SPL Vitalizer In-Car Audio Software Now Available on Cadence Tensilica HiFi Audio/Voice DSP Family (Wednesday Sep. 03, 2014)
  Cadence and SPL electronics today announced that SPL’s Vitalizer® software has been ported to the Cadence® Tensilica® HiFi Audio/Voice digital signal processing (DSP) family and is available now.
  
  
• Discretix to Showcase Preintegrated Security Solutions on the Snapdragon Platform at Qualcomm's 3G/LTE Summit (Tuesday Sep. 02, 2014)
  Discretix today announced that its full range of security solutions will be on display at the upcoming Qualcomm® 3G/LTE Summit in Hong Kong. Preintegrated with the Snapdragon™ platform, these solutions leverage the ARM® TrustZone security technology and the Secure OS of the Snapdragon™ platform.
  
  
• Undo Software releases UndoDB Out-and-About edition (Thursday Aug. 21, 2014)
  Undo Software today announced the release of UndoDB Out-and-About, a new way of licensing its high-performance reversible debugging software. UndoDB Out-and-About is aimed at software vendors whose software is deployed on customer sites.
  
  
• RTOS Synthesis Tool SynthOS Goes Online For Free (Wednesday Aug. 20, 2014)
  Zeidman Technologies, Inc. has announced the release of the online version of SynthOS, a software development tool that automatically generates an optimized real time operating system (RTOS) that has strengthened security, increased reliability, lower hardware costs, reduced debug time, and minimized memory footprint, all of which are critical to devices connected to the Internet of Things.
  
  
• Algo-Logic Systems Launches High Performance Second Generation 100G Top-of-Rack (TOR) Switch for Datacenters (Tuesday Aug. 19, 2014)
  
  
  
• Mentor Graphics Extends Nucleus RTOS with Industry-Leading Capabilities for Microcontroller and Multicore Applications (Monday Aug. 18, 2014)
  The Nucleus RTOS process model is expanded to include ARM® Cortex® M- based cores. For the first time, software developers can use a single embedded operating system to increase system reliability through memory partitioning for the entire spectrum of ARM cores, facilitating code reuse across an entire product family comprising low-end to high-end devices.
  
  
• Wind River Integrates Virtualization Technology into Next-Generation RTOS for Internet of Things (Monday Aug. 18, 2014)
  Based on proven Wind River virtualization technology, Virtualization Profile for VxWorks extends the scalability capabilities of the VxWorks 7 Core Platform by integrating a real-time embedded, Type 1 hypervisor into the core of the RTOS.
  
  
• Ittiam Systems announces availability of its third generation H.265/HEVC codec with 422 12-bit support (Wednesday Aug. 13, 2014)
  Ittiam Systems announced the addition of 422 12-bit support to its Pristine Quality H.265/HEVC Main 10 encoder SDK making it one of the industry's first commercially licensable encoders with range extension.
  
  
• Microchip partners with CSR to offer easy access to Bluetooth® Smart technology (Thursday Jul. 31, 2014)
  CSR today announces that Microchip Technology Inc. has launched its new Bluetooth® Smart module based on the CSR1012™ solution.
  
  
• Red Hat Launches ARM Partner Early Access Program for Partner Ecosystem (Thursday Jul. 31, 2014)
  Red Hat today announced the launch of the Red Hat ARM Partner Early Access Program to enhance partner collaboration and facilitate partner-initiated system designs based on the 64-bit capable ARMv8-A architecture that include Red Hat software.
  
  
• Express Logic's X-Ware Eases IoT Development (Thursday Jul. 31, 2014)
  Express Logic introduces X-Ware™, an integrated, optimized, comprehensive middleware solution that provides a solid foundation for Internet of Things (IoT) development.
  
  
• eInfochips to Develop NVIDIA GPU-powered Solutions for Aerospace and Defense, Medical Imaging, HPC and Visual Computing (Wednesday Jul. 30, 2014)
  eInfochips today announced professional services offered to clients to develop NVIDIA GPU-powered solutions for aerospace and defense, medical imaging, high-performance computing (HPC), industrial, and visual computing applications.
  
  
• CSRmesh Development Kit accelerates Internet of Things product development (Tuesday Jul. 29, 2014)
  Bluetooth® innovator CSR plc (LSE: CSR; NASDAQ: CSRE) today announces the launch of its CSRmesh™ Development Kit, which will allow developers to get hands on with the recently launched CSRmesh Bluetooth Smart protocol.
  
  
• eSOL's eT-Kernel Real-Time Operating System Evaluation Kit Now Available for Altera SoC (Monday Jul. 28, 2014)
  eSOL announced that the eT-Kernel Evaluation Kit is now available for Cyclone® V SoC, which integrates the dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor with the FPGA fabric systems.
  
  
• eSOL's eT-Kernel RTOS Evaluation Kit Launched for Xilinx Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC (Thursday Jul. 24, 2014)
  eSOL has started offering the eT-Kernel Evaluation Kit for Xilinx® Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC, which combines the dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor with Xilinx's 28nm programmable-logic fabric.
  
  
• Algo-Logic Systems Launches Ultra-Low-Latency Highly Scalable Key/Value Search (KVS) Solution for Datacenters (Wednesday Jul. 23, 2014)