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• CEVA Introduces World's First Software-Based Super-Resolution Technology for Low Energy Mobile Applications (Thursday Apr. 25, 2013)
  CEVA today introduced the world’s first software-based Super-Resolution (SR) Technology for embedded applications, bringing PC system-equivalent imaging performance to low power mobile devices. For example, in a 28nm process, the CEVA-MM3101 processor is able to take four 5MPixel images and fuse them into a single high-resolution 20MPixel image in a fraction of a second, while consuming less than 30mW.
  
  
• AMD Targets High-Growth, Embedded Markets with New AMD Embedded G-Series System-on-Chip (Tuesday Apr. 23, 2013)
  AMD today announced the new AMD Embedded G-Series System-on-Chip (SOC) platform, a single-chip solution based on the AMD next-generation “Jaguar” CPU architecture and AMD Radeon™ 8000 Series graphics.
  
  
• ARM Releases Free Industry Standard Development Tools For Its Embedded Linux Community (Tuesday Apr. 23, 2013)
  ARM® has extended the scope of the ARM Development Studio 5 (DS-5™) Community Edition (CE) to provide a fully featured, industry standard, and free-to-use software development environment for ARM Embedded Linux applications.
  
  
• Mentor Graphics Accelerates SoC and Embedded System Delivery with a Native Embedded Software Environment for Pre- and Post-Silicon Development, Embedding QEMU, SystemC and Emulation (Monday Apr. 22, 2013)
  Mentor Graphics today announced release of the Mentor® Embedded Sourcery™ CodeBench Virtual Edition product, a native software environment for developing embedded systems pre- and post-silicon.
  
  
• CEVA Introduces AMF - Android Multimedia Framework for Energy Efficient Multi-Core Systems (Thursday Apr. 18, 2013)
  CEVA today introduced a new low-energy software framework for Android based systems, which efficiently reduces the power consumption required for complex multimedia processing using a heterogeneous CPU and DSP system architecture.
  
  
• Elliptic Technologies Launches Hardware Enforced End-to-End Protection for Premium Content Sharing with its tVault DTCP+ Compliant Solutions (Wednesday Apr. 17, 2013)
  The tVault DTCP-IP integrates seamlessly with trusted execution environments and ARM® TrustZone® frameworks and supports DTCP+, the latest version of the specification that allows consumers to enjoy access to premium content not only at home, but also outside the home.
  
  
• IAR Embedded Workbench certified for functional safety development (Wednesday Apr. 10, 2013)
  IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM is available with certification from TÜV SÜD according to IEC 61508 and ISO 26262, delivered with an exhaustive functional safety support agreement
  
  
• Imperas Delivers ARM Cortex-A7 MPCore High-Performance Processor Model with Integrated Software Development Environment (Tuesday Apr. 09, 2013)
  Imperas has today released its latest software model, the ARM Cortex-A7 MPCore, to complement its existing range of ARM Cortex models.
  
  
• Tata Elxsi unveils H.264 Ultra Low Latency Codecs with 13 ms end to end latency (Monday Apr. 08, 2013)
  Tata Elxsi unveils the hardware implementation of H.264 Ultra Low Latency (ULL) encoder and decoder with an assured e2e latency of 13ms. This is targeted for a broadcast delivery solution for high quality video content broadcasting and editing.
  
  
• Tata Elxsi unveils HEVC Ultra HD (4K) Decoder for Smartphones, Tablets, Set Top Boxes, Gaming consoles and other CE devices (Monday Apr. 08, 2013)
  Tata Elxsi announced the availability of a licensable HEVC Ultra HD (4K) Decoder thereby leading the way in next-generation video technology space, targeted for the broadcast, video conferencing and proliferating smart CE devices.
  
  
• Ittiam unveils a full HD low latency streaming solution with a glass-to-glass latency of less than 70ms (Tuesday Apr. 02, 2013)
  
  
  
• Imagination Technologies announces Caustic ray-tracing hardware certification on Lenovo workstations (Tuesday Apr. 02, 2013)
  Imagination Technologies announces its Caustic Series2 R2500 and R2100 ray-tracing acceleration boards are now certified on Lenovo’s ThinkStation D30 and S30 workstations.
  
  
• Imagination delivers latest version of leading tools for game development at GDC 2013 (Monday Mar. 25, 2013)
  Imagination announces the release of the latest version of its industry-leading PowerVR Graphics SDK (software development kit) v3.1.
  
  
• Sierraware Introduces ARM TrustZone-based Malware Protection and Integrity Management (Monday Mar. 18, 2013)
  Sierraware announced it has released SierraDefense to combat mobile malware. Built for the SierraTEE secure operating system, SierraDefense detects malware by examining the metadata and the behavior of applications running on a high-level operating system such as Linux or Android.
  
  
• Ittiam Systems Announces Availability and Software Licensing of HEVC (H.265) Video Encoder and Decoder for Professional, Enterprise and Consumer Digital Media Markets (Thursday Mar. 14, 2013)
  Ittiam Systems today announced the availability of its Video Encoder and Decoder for the recently ratified next generation High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard.
  
  
• Dongbu HiTek and Cortus to develop joint Platform Solution for the Microcontroller (MCU) Market (Tuesday Mar. 05, 2013)
  Cortus and Dongbu HiTek announce that they are teaming up to offer platform solutions. The design platforms will be based on the Dongbu HiTek 0.13µm eFlash technology and energy efficient Cortus APS3R processor and peripheral IP.
  
  
• ARM Launches Keil MDK-ARM Version 5 (Tuesday Mar. 05, 2013)
  ARM today announced version 5 of the Keil™ MDK-ARM™ Microcontroller Development Kit, the most comprehensive software development system for ARM® processor-based microcontroller applications.
  
  
• Mobiveil announces the availability of Freescale P3041 AMC board for embedded and networking applications (Friday Mar. 01, 2013)
  Mobiveil today announced the availability of Freescale Semiconductor P3041 form factor AMC card targeted for development of wireless and wireline networking applications.
  
  
• ARM announces mbed version 2.0 and releases open source SDK and development board HDK (Friday Mar. 01, 2013)
  ARM unveils the next milestone of the mbed™ project with a new SDK released under a permissive open source license, a new HDK for creating low-cost development boards.
  
  
• PLDA and ReFLEX CES announce new line of System-on-Module (SoM) products, combining the ease of programming of a CPU with the configurability of an FPGA (Thursday Feb. 28, 2013)
  PLDA and ReFLEX CES today announced a joint project to produce leading System-on-Module (SoM) platforms. The new line of PLDA SoM products are built by ReFLEX CES using PLDA’s leading IP and will be marketed and supported by PLDA through their worldwide sales and distribution channels.
  
  
• AM3D Audio Enhancement Ported to Tensilica's HiFi Audio DSPs (Wednesday Feb. 27, 2013)
  Tensilica and AM3D A/S today announced that the two companies have extended their partnership to port AM3D’s Audio Enhancement product to Tensilica’s family of HiFi Audio DSPs.
  
  
• Atmel Expands Third-Party Ecosystem of Tools and Software Partners for Recently Launched ARM Cortex-A5 Processor-based Family (Tuesday Feb. 26, 2013)
  Atmel today announced the company has expanded its third-party ecosystem of tools and software partners for its recently launched ARM® Cortex®-A5 processor-based family of products. Partner companies include ARM, Timesys, Express Logic and IAR.
  
  
• ZTE and Imagination Technologies announce availability of VoLTE on commercial handsets (Tuesday Feb. 26, 2013)
  Imagination Technologies today announce the HelloSoft VoLTE solution is now available on commercial ZTE VoLTE-enabled handsets, powered by the MetroPCS 4G LTE network.
  
  
• Tensilica and Sensory Drive Industry's Lowest Power DSP-Based Voice Activation Solution (Monday Feb. 25, 2013)
  Tensilica, Inc. and Sensory today announced that the two companies have worked together to provide the lowest power voice activation solution based on Tensilica’s recently introduced HiFi Mini DSP IP core and Sensory’s TrulyHandsfree™ always-on voice activation technology.
  
  
• IAR Systems supports the XMC1000 low-price ARM Cortex-M0 microcontrollers from Infineon (Thursday Feb. 21, 2013)
  IAR Systems® announces comprehensive support for the XMC1000 family of 32-bit microcontrollers recently announced by Infineon Technologies. The support is available using IAR Embedded Workbench® for ARM®, which is a complete set of high-performance tools for embedded development.
  
  
• Inside Secure Demonstrates End-To-End Security for Next-Generation Home Energy Gateways (Thursday Feb. 21, 2013)
  INSIDE Secure has developed a demonstration design of a next-generation home energy gateway that will meet the stringent end-to-end security requirements mandated by the German BSI (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik) also known as the Federal Office for Information Security.
  
  
• ARM and STMicroelectronics Join with Mathworks to Enable Code Generation, Debug and Modelling For STM32 Microcontrollers (Tuesday Feb. 19, 2013)
  ARM and STMicroelectronics have announced the availability of the first ever Embedded Coder support, with MATLAB and Simulink, for ARM® Cortex™-M processor-based systems.
  
  
• New mimoOn Library for Tensilica's Baseband DSP IP Cores Speeds Up LTE and LTE-Advanced Chip Designs (Tuesday Feb. 19, 2013)
  Tensilica and mimoOn today announced a new LTE and LTE-Advanced PHY library that will significantly speed up development of chips including Tensilica’s ConnX BBE32 family of DSP IP cores.
  
  
• Sensory's New TrulyHandsfree 3.0 Speaker Verification and Speaker Identification Optimized Port Available on Tensilica HiFi Audio/Voice DSPs (Tuesday Feb. 19, 2013)
  Tensilica, Inc. and Sensory today announced that the two companies have partnered to provide an optimized port of Sensory’s new TrulyHandsfree 3.0 Voice Control software to Tensilica’s family of HiFi Audio/Voice DSP IP cores.
  
  
• CEVA and Sensory Partner to Deliver Lowest Power Voice Activation Solution Based on CEVA-TeakLite-4 DSP Platform (Tuesday Feb. 19, 2013)
  CEVA and Sensory today announced that the companies have partnered to offer an advanced voice recognition solution based on the industry-leading CEVA-TeakLite-4 DSP and Sensory's TrulyHandsfree™ always-on voice activation technology.