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• Imagination Technologies releases second generation tools for mobile GPU compute developers (Thursday Aug. 29, 2013)
  Imagination Technologies announces it has implemented a set of image and video handling extensions to the EGL Native Platform Interface.
  
  
• Atmel Ships New ARM Cortex M0+ Processor-based MCUs in Volume (Wednesday Aug. 28, 2013)
  Atmel today announced the company is shipping in production quantities its new Atmel®SAM D20, the first series in a new family of ultra-low power embedded Flash microcontrollers based on the ARM® Cortex®-M0+ processor.
  
  
• Ridgetop Group Partners with SiliconAid Solutions on IEEE P1687 and IEEE 1149.1-2013 Standards (Wednesday Aug. 28, 2013)
  Ridgetop Group, Inc., and SiliconAid Solutions announced jointly today they have partnered on emerging new industrial testability standards, IEEE P1687 and IEEE 1149.1-2013, and developed a system to embed Ridgetop Group’s SJ BIST™ board-level interconnection reliability monitor.
  
  
• Imagination and Mentor extend partnership for open source, embedded tools support across all MIPS CPUs (Tuesday Aug. 27, 2013)
  Imagination Technologies announces a significant expansion of its partnership with Mentor Graphics for Sourcery™ CodeBench development tools components for MIPS CPUs, allowing developers to accelerate their development cycle significantly thanks to the Mentor® open-source, low-cost and widely supported software platform.
  
  
• INSIDE Secure Acquires Rights to Trustonic TrustedShow Technology to Bolster DRM Lineup (Tuesday Aug. 20, 2013)
  INSIDE Secure today announced it has licensed TrustedShow™ digital rights management (DRM) technology from Trustonic, and incorporated it into its DRM Fusion™ Agent solution for embedded development.
  
  
• Adapteva Introduces Parallella University Program (Tuesday Aug. 13, 2013)
  Adapteva today introduced its Parallella University Program (PUP) for academic institutions that conduct leading parallel programing research and/or education.
  
  
• Synopsys Introduces Dolby MS11 Decoder for DesignWare ARC Audio Processors (Monday Aug. 12, 2013)
  Synopsys today announced the availability of the Dolby® MS11 Multistream Decoder optimized for its DesignWare® ARC® AS211SFX and AS221BD audio processors.
  
  
• EEMBC Launches Embedded Industry's First Floating-Point Benchmark Suite Targeting Microcontrollers to High-End Multicore Processors (Wednesday Aug. 07, 2013)
  EEMBC today announced FPMark™, a new benchmark suite that tracks the performance of embedded processors with floating-point hardware units (FPU), an increasingly popular and necessary feature to support graphics, audio, motor control, and many other high-end processing tasks.
  
  
• CEVA Introduces Digital Video Stabilizer Software Module for CEVA-MM3000 Imaging & Vision Platforms Targeting Next Generation Smartphones and Mobile Devices (Monday Aug. 05, 2013)
  CEVA today announced the availability of its digital video stabilizer (DVS) software module for the CEVA-MM3000 imaging and vision platforms
  
  
• CEVA Announces New Application Developer Kit for CEVA-MM3000 Imaging & Vision Platforms (Monday Aug. 05, 2013)
  ADK substantially streamlines software development and integration effort required for advanced computational photography and vision applications
  
  
• Imagination and Hardkernel partner to deliver high-performance GPU capabilities on low-cost ODROID-XU development board (Friday Aug. 02, 2013)
  Imagination Technologies announced today that Hardkernel, a hardware supplier specialized in affordable open development platforms, has released the high-performance, low-cost ODROID-XU development board.
  
  
• ARM to bring the Internet of Things to life at its Cambridge Campus (Thursday Jul. 25, 2013)
  ARM announces work is underway to transform its headquarters into a hub for its partners’ Internet of Things (IoT) technologies.
  
  
• ARM and Oracle Announce Plans to Optimize Java SE For Enterprise and Embedded Markets (Monday Jul. 22, 2013)
  ARM today announced it has entered into a multi-year agreement with Oracle to further optimize the existing Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) for ARM® 32-bit platforms and to add Java SE support for ARMv8 64-bit platforms.
  
  
• ARM Beats Intel With Revised AnTuTu Benchmark (Monday Jul. 15, 2013)
  The AnTuTu Benchmark, a benchmarking tool for Android smartphones and tablets, has been revised following some discrepancy over whether the latest Intel Atom processor outperformed ARM-based chips from several vendors in key aspects of the benchmark. Under the revised benchmark, overall scores for the Atom Z2580 dropped by about 20 percent.
  
  
• MontaVista Software Extends Support for ARM Architecture Targeting Telecom and Networking Markets (Wednesday Jul. 03, 2013)
  MontaVista® Software today announced Carrier Grade Edition® (CGE) support for the Carrier Grade Linux 5.0 profile for ARM architecture.
  
  
• New Microcontroller Integrates Measurement And Communication Capabilities (Thursday Jun. 27, 2013)
  
  
  
• Tektronix Adds Industry's First Test Solution for New 10 Gbps SuperSpeed USB (Wednesday Jun. 26, 2013)
  Tektronix today announced a series of enhancements to its USB 3.0 test solutions including an industry first transmitter test solution for the SuperSpeedPlus 10 Gb/s specification.
  
  
• ARM Releases Starter Kit for RZ Family of Embedded Microprocessors in Partnership with Renesas (Thursday Jun. 20, 2013)
  ARM, in collaboration with Renesas Electronics Corporation, has introduced a free starter kit based on ARMs flagship suite of software development tools, targeting evaluation and initial software development on the new Renesas ARM Cortex-A9 processor-based RZ/A1 group MPUs
  
  
• Penguin Computing, Calxeda and Inktank Partner to Deliver Large Scale Storage on ARM Based Servers (Monday Jun. 17, 2013)
  Penguin Computing announced today that it is developing a highly efficient large scale cloud storage deployment with industry partners Calxeda® and Inktank. Calxeda is a manufacturer of ARM® based SoCs (System on Chip). Inktank is the company delivering Ceph - the massively scalable, open source, software-defined storage system.
  
  
• EnSilica launches the eSi-ZM1 System-on-Module for faster, lower risk and smarter embedded systems development (Wednesday Jun. 05, 2013)
  The eSi-ZM1 is EnSilica’s first product in a new range of eSi-Modules and is built around the Xilinx Zynq Extensible Programming Platform. Combining a powerful dual core ARM Cortex A9 MPcore subsystem running embedded Linux together with the Xilinx Series-7 FPGA fabric, it is ideal for developing a range of commercial and industrial applications for automotive electronics, consumer electronics, industrial automation, broadcast, medical imaging and wired communications.
  
  
• ACE announces SuperTest qualification suite (Wednesday Jun. 05, 2013)
  ACE Associated Compiler Experts bv, world leader in tools and services for professional compiler development, announce the availability of the SuperTest qualification suite for use in software tool qualification kits and services.
  
  
• Synopsys Introduces Starter Kit for DesignWare ARC EM Processors (Wednesday May. 29, 2013)
  Synopsys today announced availability of the DesignWare® ARC® EM Starter Kit for the ARC EM family of embedded processor cores.
  
  
• INSIDE Secure announces industry's broadest set of FIPS-certified Embedded security offerings (Tuesday May. 28, 2013)
  INSIDE Secure today announced that its SafeZone encryption toolkit, a key sub-component of the company’s embedded security software products, has received Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 certification from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
  
  
• Synopsys Delivers VDK for Renesas RH850 MCUs (Friday May. 24, 2013)
  Synopsys today announced the availability of the Virtualizer Development Kit (VDK) for Renesas RH850 MCUs to accelerate software development, system integration and test for RH850-based automotive applications such as body, powertrain/hybrid and chassis/safety control.
  
  
• Imperas Delivers Next Generation Embedded Software Development Suite Based On ToolMorphing Technology (Wednesday May. 22, 2013)
  Imperas today announced the release of its 2nd generation virtual platform development and multicore software design kit product offerings. These new products provide extended development capabilities operating at high performance levels.
  
  
• Calxeda and Fedora Project Deploy Servers on Path to Make ARM a Primary Architecture (Wednesday May. 15, 2013)
  Calxeda today announced the deployment of Boston Ltd. Viridis servers embedded with Calxeda EnergyCore® chips for the Fedora Project. The availability of the Calxeda-based server cluster is a critical step in helping the Fedora community enable ARM into a primary architecture.
  
  
• LogMeIn and ARM Announce Collaboration to Accelerate Commercial Products on the Internet of Things (Wednesday May. 15, 2013)
  LogMeIn announced today its collaboration with ARM® to simplify and accelerate commercial development on the Internet of Things (IoT). As part of the agreement, the companies are cooperating on LogMeIn's Xively Jumpstart Kit, a rapid prototyping-to-production bundle that significantly reduces the cost, complexity and learning curve required to bring IoT-based connected products and solutions to market.
  
  
• ACE's latest CoSy compiler development system optimizes for extreme architectures (Wednesday May. 15, 2013)
  ACE announces the availability of the 2013 Spring Edition of its CoSy compiler development system. Integral support for complex architecture features allows compiler developers now to build, optimize and tune compilers for compute-intensive application domains and extreme architectures.
  
  
• Elecard announces the release of a new version of Elecard ARM Codec SDK. (Tuesday May. 14, 2013)
  Elecard Devices announces the release of the updated version of Elecard ARM Codec SDK, a software development kit for developing platform-independent multimedia applications for mobile and portable devices based on the ARM architecture.
  
  
• Synopsys Unveils Embedded Vision Development System (Thursday Apr. 25, 2013)
  Synopsys today announced the immediate availability of the Embedded Vision Development System, an integrated solution for the acceleration of the design of processors for embedded vision based on Synopsys' Processor Designer tool set and Synopsys' HAPS FPGA-based prototyping system.