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• Global Navigation Satellite Receiver From Galileo Satellite Navigation Now Available on Cadence Tensilica ConnX DSP IP Cores (Tuesday Feb. 25, 2014)
  Cadence and Galileo Satellite Navigation, Ltd. (GSN), a developer of multi-system Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) products including software receiver technology, today announced that Galileo’s software-based GNSS receiver is now available on Tensilica® ConnX DSP IP cores
  
  
• ARM releases MDK for Infineon XMC1000 (Tuesday Feb. 25, 2014)
  ARM® today announced that Infineon has licensed the Keil® Microcontroller Development Kit (MDK) Silicon Vendor Edition. Developers now get free access to professional software tools for the Infineon XMC1000 microcontroller series, further accelerating the transition from 8 and 16-bit architectures to 32-bit ARM® Cortex®-M0 processors.
  
  
• Synopsys Launches DesignWare ARC Software Development Platforms to Accelerate Software Development of ARC Processor-based SoC Designs (Monday Feb. 24, 2014)
  Synopsys today announced the new DesignWare® ARC® Software Development Platforms to accelerate software development and debug of ARC processor-based system-on-chip (SoC) designs.
  
  
• Malaspina Labs VoiceBoost Integrates into NXP's CoolFlux DSP Core (Monday Feb. 24, 2014)
  NXP Semiconductors Nand Malaspina Labs are pleased to announce the availability of Malaspina’s VoiceBoost™ suite of phonetic speech enhancement technologies for NXP licensable Ultra Low Power (ULP) CoolFlux™ DSP (digital signal processing) cores.
  
  
• Nordic Semiconductor Launches World's First ARM mbed Development Platform for Bluetooth Smart Applications (Monday Feb. 24, 2014)
  Nordic Semiconductor and ARM announce the launch of the nRF51822-mKIT, a platform for fast, easy, and flexible development of Bluetooth® Smart (Bluetooth low energy, a hallmark element of Bluetooth v4.1) applications.
  
  
• ARM unveils a new version of CMSIS that adds software deployment methods (Monday Feb. 24, 2014)
  Version 4 of the ARM® Cortex® Microcontroller Software Interface Standard (CMSIS) is available from today. It standardizes middleware interfaces and software delivery, accelerating time-to-market and cutting application development costs for new ARM Cortex-M processor-based microcontrollers.
  
  
• Rubidium Voice Trigger and Speech Recognition Integrates into NXP's CoolFlux DSP Core (Monday Feb. 24, 2014)
  NXP Semiconductors and Rubidium have announced today the integration of Rubidium's multi-lingual Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and always-listening Voice Trigger engine into NXP’s CoolFlux™ DSP, an ultra-low power (ULP) licensable DSP core optimized for digital audio processing.
  
  
• Aricent Develops High Efficiency Video Codecs by Leveraging ARM Mali GPU Compute Technology (Monday Feb. 24, 2014)
  Aricent today announced that it is leveraging ARM® Mali™ Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and parallel computing technology to develop HEVC (H.265) codecs that consume less power and bandwidth whilst delivering an Ultra HD video experience to users.
  
  
• Imagination launches world's first MCU-class CPU IP cores with hardware virtualization (Monday Feb. 24, 2014)
  Imagination Technologies is rolling out the world’s first microcontroller (MCU) class CPU intellectual property (IP) cores that incorporate hardware virtualization – bringing a new level of flexibility, security and reliability to entry-level applications. The low-power, compact, real-time MIPS M-class M51xx cores form the first group of entry-level MIPS Series5 Warrior CPUs, achieving the highest CoreMark/MHz scores for MCU-class processors.
  
  
• The most versatile and high-performing RTOS yet by Enea for ARM-based architectures (Monday Feb. 24, 2014)
  Enea today announced the release of version 5.7.1 of the Enea OSE® real-time operating system (RTOS), bringing significant feature growth and performance gain to embedded real-time systems based on the ARM® Cortex-A and Cortex-R processor architectures.
  
  
• Imagination's popular Codescape tools now provide MIPS CPU support and extended Linux/RTOS capabilities (Monday Feb. 24, 2014)
  Imagination Technologies announces that the latest version of its popular Codescape debugger now supports the full range of MIPS CPUs, offers new Linux and RTOS awareness features, and provides heterogeneous debug of SoCs using one or more of Imagination’s portfolio of MIPS and Ensigma processors.
  
  
• CEVA and nViso Partner to Bring 3D Facial Imaging and Advanced Emotion Recognition Technology to Mobile Devices (Friday Feb. 21, 2014)
  CEVA and nViso today announced that the companies have partnered to develop a solution for mobile devices that includes nViso's unique emotion detection capabilities.
  
  
• Elliptic Technologies to Unveil tVault PLUS at Mobile World Congress for End-to-End Content Protection on Smart Devices (Thursday Feb. 20, 2014)
  Integrated with Trusted Execution Environments (TEE), Elliptic's tVault PLUS offers service providers, device manufacturers and chipset vendors the ability to integrate multiple schemes, in one secure and efficient solution, enabling full-featured, end-to-end content protection to be deployed on any device and enabling consumers secure access to premium content including 4K Ultra-High Definition video.
  
  
• CEVA Enriches its Computer Vision Software Library for Flagship CEVA-MM3101 Imaging and Vision Platform (Thursday Feb. 20, 2014)
  CEVA today announced that it has enriched its CEVA-CV computer vision real-time library to include more than 750 functions, further simplifying the programming and development of computer vision (CV) applications for a wide range of end markets, including mobile, automotive, surveillance, consumer and the Internet of Things.
  
  
• Rubidium Speech Processing Solutions Now Available for Cadence Tensilica HiFi Audio/Voice DSPs (Wednesday Feb. 19, 2014)
  Cadence and Rubidium today announced that Rubidium’s speech processing software solutions have been ported to the Cadence® Tensilica® HiFi Audio/Voice digital signal processing (DSP) intellectual property (IP) family.
  
  
• Cadence and Sensory Reduce Voice Activation Power Dissipation in Mobile Devices to Less than 17 MicroWatts (Wednesday Feb. 19, 2014)
  Cadence and Sensory today announced that they have further lowered the power consumption of their industry-leading, ultra-low power DSP-based voice activation solution, which is an ideal complement to other always-on functions such as sensor fusion-enabled context awareness and face activation.
  
  
• Movea SmartMotion Technology Now Available on Cadence Tensilica HiFi Audio/Video DSP Family (Tuesday Feb. 18, 2014)
  Cadence and Movea, a forerunner in motion processing and data fusion for consumer electronics, today announced that Movea’s SmartMotion™ technology is being ported to the Cadence® Tensilica® HiFi Audio/Voice digital signal processing (DSP) family. This software will be available in May 2014.
  
  
• Cadence Announces Sensor Platforms as New Tensilica HiFi Audio Partner for Sensor Fusion and Context Awareness Applications (Tuesday Feb. 18, 2014)
  Cadence today announced that the FreeMotion™ Sensor Fusion and Context Awareness Libraries from Sensor Platforms, Inc. (SPI) are being ported to the Cadence® Tensilica® HiFi Audio/Voice digital signal processing (DSP) core.
  
  
• STMicroelectronics Reveals Affordable, Extensible Platform for Efficient Prototyping with STM32 Microcontrollers (Tuesday Feb. 18, 2014)
  STMicroelectronics is further broadening the accessibility and flexibility of its STM32 family by introducing affordable and easily extensible prototyping boards for all STM32 lines. The new STM32 Nucleo boards are mbed-enabled, and support Arduino connectivity while also providing ST Morpho extension headers that allow access to all of the microcontroller’s on-chip peripherals.
  
  
• Z3 Technology Announces 4K H.264 Video Encoder with Release of Z3-DM8169-4K-RPS System (Tuesday Feb. 18, 2014)
  Z3 Technology announces the immediate availability of the Z3-DM8169-4K-RPS video encoder system. The system was developed as a 2160p30 video solution that works in applications such as Ultra-HD broadcast video encoding and decoding, security and surveillance, video conferencing and industrial video processing.
  
  
• Dolphin Integration Releases SmartLink, USB adapter for 80x51 Built-in Debugger (Monday Feb. 17, 2014)
  Dolphin Integration, provider of 8-Bit and 16-bit microcontroller cores beyond the intel 51 legacy, is releasing the SmartLink (S-Link), cost-effective USB adapter for faster on-chip debug of application programs.
  
  
• CEVA and Sensory Enable Power-Optimized Always-Listening Smart Wearables and Sensor Fusion Solutions via TrulyHandsfree 3.0 for CEVA-TeakLite-4 DSPs (Friday Feb. 14, 2014)
  CEVA and Sensory today announced the availability of power-optimized solutions aimed at bringing advanced voice activation capabilities to a new wave of mobile and sensor-enabled devices.
  
  
• CEVA and Visidon Partner to Bring Ultra-low Power Always-on Face Activation Technology to Mobile Devices (Friday Feb. 14, 2014)
  The solution combines Visidon's face activation software with the CEVA-TeakLite-4 sensor fusion platform to enable highly power efficient context aware applications that can activate a smartphone, tablet or any other camera-enabled device upon detecting the presence of a user's face.
  
  
• PathPartner Technology Announces HEVC (H.265) Decoder on ARM Cortex-A Family Processors (Friday Feb. 14, 2014)
  PathPartner Technology announces the availability of HEVC decoder on ARM Cortex-A family processors. HEVC is the latest international standard for video compression designed for high quality streaming on mobile devices to ultra-high resolution displays.
  
  
• Cadence Tensilica HiFi Audio Tunneling for Android Cuts Audio Processing Power by Up to 14X (Thursday Feb. 13, 2014)
  Cadence today announced the availability of Cadence® Tensilica® HiFi Audio Tunneling for Android™.
  
  
• Ace Thought Announces the Release of H.265/HEVC Video Decoder Software for ARM and x86 Processors (Wednesday Feb. 12, 2014)
  Ace Thought Technologies today announced the release of highly optimized, multi-threaded, power efficient and real-time H.265/HEVC software video decoder for ARM Cortex-A series and x86 processors.
  
  
• Synopsys and Alango Technologies Deliver Voice Communication Package for DesignWare ARC Audio Processors (Tuesday Feb. 11, 2014)
  Synopsys and Alango Technologies today announced the availability of Alango's Voice Communication Package (VCP) for Synopsys' DesignWare® ARC® AS211SFX and AS221BD Audio Processors.
  
  
• REX Computing Unveils New Energy-efficient High Performance Computing System (Tuesday Feb. 04, 2014)
  REX Computing unveiled today its first server blade prototype sporting a combination of ARM and Adapteva Epiphany processors at the Open Compute Summit in San Jose. The system showcases the capabilities of low-power ARM based processors in addition to new coprocessors to outperform existing technologies while using only a fraction of the electricity.
  
  
• Imagination and Green Hills Software partner to bring broad compiler and tools support to MIPS CPUs (Monday Feb. 03, 2014)
  Imagination Technologies and Green Hills Software have signed a multi-year agreement that brings expanded, comprehensive Green Hills compiler and tools support to a broad range of Imagination’s current and future MIPS CPU cores and architectures.
  
  
• ARM Ecosystem Collaborates to Deliver Initial Server Platform Standard (Thursday Jan. 30, 2014)
  ARM® today announced the collaborative development and immediate availability of a platform standard for ARMv8-A based (64-bit) servers, known as the ARM 'Server Base System Architecture' (SBSA) specification.