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• AMD to Accelerate the ARM Server Ecosystem with the First ARM-based CPU and Development Platform from a Server Processor Vendor (Wednesday Jan. 29, 2014)
  AMD today added a major new milestone to its list of seminal developments in server technology. The company displayed a comprehensive development platform for its first 64-bit ARM®-based server CPU, fabricated using 28 nanometer process technology, the first from an established server vendor.
  
  
• HDSX - High Definition Sound Expansion Now Licensable on Tensilica HiFi DSP Cores from Cadence (Wednesday Jan. 29, 2014)
  Kronoton announced that its HDSX® software is now available for the Cadence® Tensilica® HiFi Audio DSP intellectual property (IP) cores. The solution was demonstrated at the 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), and redefines the spatiality of stereo sound.
  
  
• INSIDE Secure achieves new level of security for enterprise applications in smartphones (Thursday Jan. 16, 2014)
  INSIDE’s enhanced SafeZone cryptographic software enables developers for the first time to build FIPS 140-2 certified applications for Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) based on ARM TrustZone® frameworks
  
  
• Arira Design Announces Availability of its Hybrid Memory Cube Evaluation & Development Board (Thursday Jan. 16, 2014)
  Arira Platforms, a division of Arira Design, has announced the upcoming release of its Hybrid Memory Cube Evaluation & Development Board, the industry’s first evaluation kit to support the development of products based on Micron’s Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) Technology.
  
  
• Sundance launches SMT166 dual-FPGA development platform; powers EU's FP7 FlexTiles 3D SoC project (Monday Jan. 13, 2014)
  Sundance Multiprocessor Technology has launched the SMT166 dual-FPGA platform for R&D into the use of large FPGAs for high-performance reconfigurable computing and large-scale embedded systems applications as well as system-on-chip (SoC) simulation.
  
  
• KALRAY to showcase low power, live Ultra HD (4K) HEVC encoder at CES 2014 in collaboration with DivX (Monday Jan. 06, 2014)
  KALRAY today announced plans to demonstrate at CES 2014, the first low power live Ultra HD HEVC (4K) encoder running on the KALRAY MPPA MANYCORE processor. The demonstration is streaming DivX HEVC UltraHD (4K) video to a set top box.
  
  
• Morega Demonstrates World's First Ultra HD 4K Media Mobility Solution on the ViXS XCode 6400 SoC Platform (Monday Dec. 30, 2013)
  Morega Systems Inc. today announced that it has successfully demonstrated the industry’s first Ultra HD 4K media mobility solution, enabling consumers to enjoy the world’s most stunning video on any screen.
  
  
• Cryptography Research and Riscure Certify Broadcom as First-Ever DPA-Resistant Set-top Box SoC (Friday Dec. 20, 2013)
  Cryptography Research and Riscure today announced the certification of Broadcom’s set-top box silicon under the Differential Power Analysis (DPA) countermeasure validation program. The analysis, conducted by security evaluation firm Riscure, validates the effectiveness of DPA countermeasures to protect quality content distribution in set-top box products utilizing the Broadcom BCM7538 SoC.
  
  
• DTS-HD Decoder Now Available on Cadence Tensilica HiFi DSP Cores (Thursday Dec. 19, 2013)
  DTS and Cadence today announced the availability of DTS’ all-new DTS-HD decoder for DTS-HD and DTS-HD Master Audio™ licensees. Licensed semiconductor companies and OEMs that develop and integrate chips featuring the Cadence® Tensilica® HiFi DSP cores now have the option of quickly enabling their chips or consumer products to support playback of DTS-encoded content.
  
  
• Xylon Releases the Reference logicBRICKS Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Design for Xilinx Zynq-7000 AP SoC based inrevium Extension Microcontroller Card from Tokyo Electron Device, Ltd. (Tuesday Dec. 17, 2013)
  Xylon today released the 2D and 3D Graphics Processing Units (GPU) logicBRICKS reference design for Xilinx® Zynq™-7000 All Programmable SoC based TB-7Z-020-EMC inrevium Extension Microcontroller Card from Tokyo Electron Device, Ltd (TED).
  
  
• eInfochips Announces Gemini Initiative to Accelerate Designs with ARM CPUs and GPUs by 2015 (Tuesday Dec. 17, 2013)
  eInfochips today announced its ‘Gemini Initiative’ to create solutions with ARM Central Processing Units (CPUs) and ARM Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). The goal of the initiative is to design a class of products with a superior combination of cost, performance and energy efficiency.
  
  
• Altium announces new release of TASKING C compiler for Power Architecture (Tuesday Dec. 17, 2013)
  Altium announces a new major release of its TASKING C compiler solution for automotive application development, supporting the Power Architecture® based microcontrollers from the Freescale Qorivva/5xxx series and STMicroelectronics SPC5 series.
  
  
• Undo Software brings reversible debugging to ARM processors and Android Native (Friday Dec. 13, 2013)
  Undo Software is the leading commercial supplier of Linux and Android software development solutions for reversible debugging. UndoDB allows Linux software developers to record their program's execution, and then "wind the tape" back and forth in real-time to get a clear picture of their program's execution, significantly reducing the cost of bugs to software vendors.
  
  
• Brushless DC motor control solutions by Micronas now additionally powered by ARM Cortex-M3 Processor (Thursday Dec. 12, 2013)
  Micronas today announces the licensing of the Cortex-M3 32-bit RISC processor from ARM Ltd. for its next generation of brushless DC motor control solutions in a single IC.
  
  
• DVSI Low Data Rate Speech Compression Software Available Now for Cadence Tensilica HiFi Audio/Voice DSP (Tuesday Dec. 10, 2013)
  Cadence today announced that Digital Voice Systems AMBE® Advanced Multi-Band Excitation wideband decoder software has been ported to the Cadence® Tensilica® HiFi Audio/Voice DSP family to enhance high-quality voice compression at low bit rates.
  
  
• KALRAY launches MPPA BOARD EMB01, its first MPPA-based embedded board (Monday Dec. 09, 2013)
  KALRAY is pleased to announce the release of its first embedded board based on the high performance and energy efficient MPPA MANYCORE processor. The EMB01 board was designed as a modular, extensible and autonomous reference board to deploy demanding embedded applications.
  
  
• Imagination Technologies and Express Logic partner to expand already broad ThreadX RTOS support for MIPS CPUs (Thursday Dec. 05, 2013)
  Imagination Technologies and Express Logic announce expanded support of Express Logic’s popular ThreadX® RTOS (real time operating system) for Imagination’s MIPS CPUs. Adoption of the MIPS interAptiv CPU extends ThreadX support of multiple generations of MIPS CPUs, which range from deeply embedded cores to high-performance applications processors.
  
  
• Elliptic Technologies Announces Hardware Enforced End-to-End Content Protection for Microsoft PlayReady (Wednesday Dec. 04, 2013)
  Elliptic Technologies today announced the availability of tVault™ DRM for Microsoft® PlayReady® to secure premium content on connected devices.
  
  
• Rockchip and Analogix Team Up on SlimPort Mobile Development Platforms (Tuesday Dec. 03, 2013)
  Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of mobile application processors, and Analogix Semiconductor, Inc., a leading innovator in mixed signal circuits and IP, team up to launch SlimPort® enabled reference designs targeting mainstream smartphones and tablets.
  
  
• ARM Accelerates Time to Market for Safety Certified Applications (Tuesday Dec. 03, 2013)
  ARM® today announced the ARM Compiler Qualification Kit, a documentation package specifically designed to help developers achieve certification against safety standards such as IEC 61508 and ISO 26262.
  
  
• Intel to Customize High-End Processors (Thursday Nov. 21, 2013)
  Intel revealed its roadmap for the future of technical computing, including customizing its high-end Xeon and Xeon Phi processors, at this week's Supercomputing Conference (SC13), Nov. 17-22 in Denver.
  
  
• Inside Secure and Intrinsic-ID Team to Bring a New Level of Security to Cloud-Based Transactions (Wednesday Nov. 20, 2013)
  INSIDE Secure and Intrinsic-ID today announced they are bringing to market a new class of secure microcontrollers for smart cards and other applications that apply Hardware Intrinsic Security™ (HIS) to provide the highest levels of security for cloud-based transactions.
  
  
• Intrinsic-ID Brings New Level of Data Security to Dropbox with its Saturnus Secure Cloud Product (Wednesday Nov. 20, 2013)
  Intrinsic-ID today announced the availability of Saturnus® for Dropbox users. Saturnus brings a professional level of security to enterprise users via software and a USB token.
  
  
• Microchip Announces First Embedded Firmware Development Framework With Internal and 3rd Party Support, Licensing and Resale (Tuesday Nov. 19, 2013)
  
  
  
• IAR Systems updates its popular development tools for 8051-based microcontrollers (Tuesday Nov. 19, 2013)
  Today, IAR Systems® releases an updated version of its complete C/C++ development toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench® for 8051.
  
  
• TI's multicore software development kit extended to low-power DSP + ARM devices (Wednesday Nov. 13, 2013)
  Texas Instruments today announced the availability of its Multicore Software Development Kit (MCSDK) on the low-power OMAP-L138 and OMAP-L132 DSP + ARM9™ processors, offering developers reduced development time and scalability to TI's TMS320C6000™ high-performance digital signal processors (DSPs).
  
  
• IAR Systems launches starter kits for new high-performance ARM Cortex-M4 series from STMicroelectronics (Monday Nov. 11, 2013)
  IAR Systems® releases new starter kits for the high-performance STM32F429 series from STMicroelectronics. Several kits are available, all providing hardware, example projects and evaluation versions of the leading embedded development toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench® for ARM®.
  
  
• Xylon Announces A Real-Time Low Latency Video Rotation Reference Design for Xilinx Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC (Tuesday Nov. 05, 2013)
  Xylon today announced a reference design for a real-time video rotation for an arbitrary angle, which can be dynamically changed in sub-degree steps. The video rotation works with a video output latency that can be as low as one frame time.
  
  
• Imagination announces major new update to PowerVR Graphics SDK (Monday Nov. 04, 2013)
  Imagination Technologies announces availability of the latest version of its industry-leading PowerVR Graphics SDK (Software Development Kit) v3.2.
  
  
• IAR Systems releases new version of leading development tools for ARM (Thursday Oct. 31, 2013)
  Today, IAR Systems® announces the availability of version 6.70 of the complete C/C++ development toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench® for ARM®. The version brings improved integrations and new functionality as well as new device support.