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• D2 Technologies and Sequans Communications Showcase New Reference Solution for Mobile 4G VoLTE (Monday Jun. 18, 2012)
  D2 Technologies is unveiling a new SoC solution for mobile 4G Voice over LTE (VoLTE) in partnership with Sequans Communications.
  
  
• Imagination Meta processor delivers Dolby MS11 multistream for premium audio (Friday Jun. 15, 2012)
  Imagination Technologies has achieved Dolby MS11 certification for its Meta processors. With MS11 certification Meta can decode an extensive range of multistream audio standards using a single thread of the Meta processor.
  
  
• Green Hills Software Announces Support for Xilinx Zynq-7000 EPP (Wednesday Jun. 13, 2012)
  Green Hills Software, today announces support for the Xilinx Zynq-7000 extensible processing platform (EPP) with its INTEGRITY® real-time operating system (RTOS) platforms, high speed JTAG and trace-enabled processor probes and its performance-leading MULTI® integrated development environment.
  
  
• IAR Systems provides unmatched complete support for ARM Cortex cores (Monday Jun. 11, 2012)
  IAR Systems(R) announces that its powerful C/C++ compiler and debugger tool suite IAR Embedded Workbench(R) for ARM(R) provides the world's broadest support for the complete range of ARM Cortex(TM) cores.
  
  
• IAR Systems delivers outstanding speed optimizations for ARM Cortex (Thursday Jun. 07, 2012)
  Today, IAR Systems® announces that its high-performing embedded development tool suite IAR Embedded Workbench® for ARM® has been enhanced even further and now generates faster code than ever before.
  
  
• Quadros RTXC RTOS Now Available for Market-Leading DSP Cores from CEVA (Wednesday Jun. 06, 2012)
  The RTXC family of embedded RTOSes provides a low-overhead, flexible solution for customers working on CEVA-X based designs. The one-stop development and run-time solution includes the RTXC Quadros RTOS and the comprehensive CEVA-Toolbox™ suite of development tools for easy customization and programmability.
  
  
• Target Compiler Technologies Releases New Multicore Debugger for its MP Designer Product Line (Tuesday Jun. 05, 2012)
  Target Compiler today announced the commercial release of a new graphical debugger tool for multicore system-on-chip architectures. The new multicore debugger, named ChessMP™, seamlessly integrates with Target’s instruction-set simulation technology for processor cores, thus enabling cycle and instruction-accurate simulation of multicore architectures.
  
  
• CEVA and VWorks Announce Availability of Virtual Prototyping Platforms featuring CEVA DSPs (Monday Jun. 04, 2012)
  CEVA, and ASTC's VWorks™ group today announced the availability of virtual platforms based on CEVA's industry-leading CEVA-X and CEVA-XC DSP families. The virtual platforms are already in use with a leading baseband vendor to aid the design of their LTE modems.
  
  
• Mavenir Systems and Imagination Technologies Announce IR.92-Compliant VoLTE Interoperability for US-Based Carriers (Thursday May. 31, 2012)
  Mavenir Systems and Imagination Technologies today announced completion of IR.92--compliant VoLTE interoperability testing (IOT) of Imagination's HelloSoftV.VoIP mobile device client with Mavenir's IMS-based Converged Telephony Application Server (CTAS).
  
  
• Dell Unveils Programs to Enable the ARM-based Server Ecosystem and Accelerate Development and Testing of ARM-based Applications and Solutions (Wednesday May. 30, 2012)
  Dell today announced it is responding to the demands of our customers for continued innovation in support of hyperscale environments, and enabling the ecosystem for ARM-based servers. The ARM-based server market is approaching an inflection point, marked by increasing customer interest in testing and developing applications, and Dell believes now is the right time to help foster development and testing of operating systems and applications for ARM servers.
  
  
• The First Toshiba ARM Cortex-M0 Microcontroller Optimized for Smart Meters (Tuesday May. 29, 2012)
  Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) today announced a new 32-bit RISC microcontroller built around the ARM Cortex®-M0 processor core.
  
  
• NECs CyberWorkBench and Imperas OVP Fast Processor Models Integrated to Expand Hardware-Software Co-Verification Capabilities (Wednesday May. 23, 2012)
  Imperas today announced that its Open Virtual Platforms (OVP) OVPsim simulator and OVP Fast Processor Models have been integrated with NEC’s CyberWorkBench (CWB) SystemC cycle-accurate hardware models. OVP’s position as the de facto source of instruction accurate processor core models provides additional value to CyberWorkBench’s complete C/SystemC SoC design flow including ANSI-C/SystemC synthesis, hardware-software (HW/SW) co-verification and C-based formal verification.
  
  
• PHYTEC Announces an Ultra-Low Cost ARM Cortex-A8 System on Module (SOM) Supporting the Texas Instruments AM335x Family of Processors (Wednesday May. 16, 2012)
  PHYTEC announced the phyCORE-AM335x System on Module (SOM), a feature packed SOM supporting the Texas Instruments (TI) Sitara™ AM335x ARM® Cortex™-A8 processor and PowerVR™ SGX530 for 2D and 3D graphics acceleration.
  
  
• Fast Processor Models of MIPS Technologies New Aptiv Generation Cores Released by Imperas and Open Virtual Platforms (Friday May. 11, 2012)
  Imperas is releasing the Open Virtual Platforms(tm) (OVP(tm)) Fast Processor Models for MIPS Technologies new Aptiv(tm) Generation of processor cores. Example virtual platforms are also being released, as well as support for the cores in Imperas M*SDK(tm) advanced software development tools
  
  
• Sequans Introduces LTE Interference Rejection Technology (Wednesday May. 09, 2012)
  
  
  
• Tensilica and VWorks Partner to Provide Virtual Prototyping Platforms (Tuesday May. 08, 2012)
  Tensilica and VWorks today announced a partnership to provide virtual platforms based on Tensilica's Xtensa dataplane processors (DPUs), dramatically reducing customers' embedded software development time.
  
  
• Mindspeed Extends Lead in TD-SCDMA Small Cells with New Reference Design (Monday May. 07, 2012)
  Mindspeed Technologies today announced the industry's first product for enterprise and public access Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA) small cells.
  
  
• NXP Brings ARM Cortex-M0 to DALI and DMX512 Lighting Control Systems (Thursday May. 03, 2012)
  NXP Semiconductors today introduced the industry’s first development platforms for DALI and DMX512 wired lighting control systems based on the low-cost, low-power 32-bit ARM® Cortex™-M0 processor.
  
  
• Latest Android NDK Fully Supports the MIPS Architecture (Wednesday May. 02, 2012)
  MIPS Technologies announced that the latest official release of the Android™ Native Development Kit (NDK) includes full support for the MIPS® architecture. With Release 8 of the Android NDK now available from Google, natively developed Android applications can be easily brought to MIPS-Based™ devices.
  
  
• PolyCore Software Introduces Poly-Platform 2.0 with Enhanced Memory Management Tools for Optimal Multicore Performance (Monday Apr. 30, 2012)
  PolyCore Software today announced Version 2.0 of its Poly-Platform multicore software platform, a bundle of productivity tools and runtime communications engine that simplifies the process of migrating to and developing applications for multicore platforms.
  
  
• AppliedMicro Unveils Apache Web Server Running on World's First 64-bit ARM Implementation (Friday Apr. 27, 2012)
  Applied Micro today announced the world's first web server implementation running on a 64-bit ARM v8-compliant processor.
  
  
• SK Planet Partners with Elliptic Technologies To Secure HD Video Streaming On ARM TrustZone Platforms with Elliptic tVault HDCP 2.1 (Wednesday Apr. 25, 2012)
  SK Planet has formed a strategic partnership with Elliptic Technologies to enable robust security for High Definition (HD) video streaming on connected devices such as smartphones, tablets and connected TVs.
  
  
• Tensilica Adds Support for Dynamic Resolution Adaptation Audio Standard to HiFi Audio DSP Library (Monday Apr. 23, 2012)
  Tensilica, Inc. today announced that it has added support for the Dynamic Resolution Adaptation (DRA) standard to its library of over 100 audio encoders, decoders and sound enhancement packages for its popular HiFi Audio DSP (digital signal processor) family. Now all products that include the HiFi Audio DSPs can be used to support the standard approved by the People's Republic of China as the National Audio Standard (GB/T 22726-2008) for multi-channel audio decoding.
  
  
• Mentor Graphics and Stonestreet One Announce Integrated Bluetooth Software Stack for Nucleus RTOS Targeting Low Power, Connected Embedded Development (Wednesday Apr. 18, 2012)
  Mentor Graphics today announced the integration of its flagship Nucleus® Real Time Operating System (RTOS) with the Bluetopia protocol stack from Stonestreet One, a leading provider of Bluetooth software. The third generation of the Nucleus RTOS provides built-in power management capabilities and connectivity features ideally suited for power sensitive, wireless communication applications.
  
  
• Texas Instruments unveils industry's first real-time JPEG 2000 HD solution on multicore DSP (Wednesday Apr. 18, 2012)
  Texas Instruments today unveiled the industry's first implementation of the real-time HD JPEG 2000 codec on a multicore digital signal processor (DSP).
  
  
• Advantech and Ittiam to Cooperate in HD Audio Transcoding Initiative on Multicore DSP (Wednesday Apr. 18, 2012)
  Advantech and Ittiam Systems announced the availability of a new high-density audio transcoding platform on Advantech’s DSPC-8681 card based on four TMS320C6678 multicore DSPs from TI.
  
  
• Fraunhofer and Intopix present DCP creation with real-time JPEG 2000 coding (Monday Apr. 16, 2012)
  Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS and Intopix cooperate in order to accelerate the creation process and mastering of digital cinema packages (DCP). The well-known software package easyDCP developed by Fraunhofer IIS now supports the hardware acceleration board PRISTINE from Intopix to allow for faster encoding of JPEG 2000 files, both visually or mathematically lossless, for resolutions from HD up to 4K.
  
  
• Imagination launches PowerVR Brazil SDK for ray traced rendering (Friday Apr. 13, 2012)
  Developed from the ground up to fully utilize Imagination’s PowerVR OpenRL™ API SDK, the Brazil SDK v1.0 enables 3D graphics software developers to easily add high-level ray tracing functionality to their applications.
  
  
• Ittiam to Showcase High-Density, High-Quality Broadcast Solutions at NAB 2012 (Thursday Apr. 12, 2012)
  Ittiam Systems today announced the latest version of its Broadcast Solutions for Contribution, Distribution and Multiscreen Delivery. The solutions include high-quality codecs and production-ready software systems for dense encoding and transcoding, available for licensing by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
  
  
• NXP Introduces Longevity Program for ARM Cortex-M Microcontrollers (Wednesday Mar. 28, 2012)
  NXP Semiconductors today launched a Product Longevity Program for its ARM® Cortex™-M microcontrollers with a minimum available period of 10 years. This program assures continuity and stability of supply for NXP customers.