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• Wind River Announces Software Support for Xilinx Zynq-7000 EPP (Monday Mar. 26, 2012)
  Wind River announces support for the Xilinx Zynq-7000 extensible processing platform (EPP) on its VxWorks operating system platform and Wind River Workbench. The Xilinx Zynq-7000 EPP combines the performance and power benefits of an ARM Cortex-A9 processor based SoC with the flexibility and scalability of an FPGA.
  
  
• Imagination announces availability of HelloSoft V.VoIP MediaEngine SDK (Monday Mar. 26, 2012)
  Imagination’s HelloSoft V.VoIP MediaEngine SDK is a comprehensive suite of highly portable software components for high quality video and voice over IP (V.VoIP) media processing that delivers consistent, superior quality user experiences for devices in both wired and wireless enterprise environments
  
  
• TI introduces industry's first family of ICs designed to support Thunderbolt Technology (Thursday Mar. 22, 2012)
  TI today introduced the industry's first IC portfolio optimized for Thunderbolt™ Technology. The Thunderbolt high-speed interface standard supports dual 10.3 Gbps transfer lanes, aggregating PCI Express and DisplayPort into a single cable to enable both data and display over a single cable.
  
  
• Tilera and AuthenTec Team to Deliver Highest Performance, Most Efficient IPsec Solution (Wednesday Mar. 21, 2012)
  Tilera today announced that the AuthenTec QuickSec™ IPsec (Internet Protocol security) stack is available on the TILE-Gx36™ and TILE-Gx16™ processors, delivering over 30 gigabits-per-second (Gbps) IPsec ESP throughput.
  
  
• Opera TV Solutions Now Available for MIPS Architecture (Monday Mar. 19, 2012)
  MIPS Technologies and Opera Software have teamed to bring the powerful Opera Devices Software Development Kit (SDK) to the MIPS® processor architecture. Based on this collaboration, the Opera TV Store and the Opera TV browser with WebGL support are now available for MIPS-Based DTVs, set-top boxes and other digital home devices.
  
  
• EEMBC Brings Order to the Chaos of Android Benchmarking (Thursday Mar. 15, 2012)
  The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) today launched its standardized, industry-approved method of evaluating Android-enabled devices. The EEMBC benchmark, named AndEBench, is available for download on Android Market, now part of Google Play, and soon at the Amazon Appstore for Android.
  
  
• Freescale Introduces Kinetis L Series, Industry's First Microcontrollers Built on the ARM Cortex-M0+ Processor (Tuesday Mar. 13, 2012)
  Highlighting its role as a leader in ARM®-based embedded processing, Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE: FSL) announced it will demonstrate its new Kinetis L series microcontrollers (MCUs) built on the ARM® Cortex™-M0+ processor at DESIGN West in San Jose, California.
  
  
• Texas Instruments and iRobot team up to shape future robotic innovation (Monday Mar. 12, 2012)
  TI and iRobot today announced a partnership to develop robotic technologies using TI's smart multicore OMAP™ platform. The relationship stems from the companies' shared vision to create intelligent and practical robots capable of enhancing people's lives.
  
  
• FAA Reaffirms Approval of LynuxWorks LynxOS-178 Reusable Software Components RTOS for Safety-Critical Applications (Monday Mar. 12, 2012)
  LynuxWorks, Inc., the first and only embedded operating system vendor to receive Advisory Circular AC 20-148 approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for reusable software components (RSC), has received its second RSC approval for the LynxOS-178 product family.
  
  
• Intel rolls first processor optimized for datacenters (Wednesday Mar. 07, 2012)
  Intel Corp. says it has designed its first processor built from the ground up for the "green" datacenters of the future, claiming a 70 percent increase in performance for the same energy consumption.
  
  
• Imagination announces major upgrade to its PVRTC technology (Tuesday Mar. 06, 2012)
  Imagination Technologies announces the release of PVRTC2, the latest generation of its PVRTC texture compression technology, for all PowerVR Series5XT and Series6 GPU IP cores.
  
  
• Imagination announces PowerVR Insider SDK 2.10 (Tuesday Mar. 06, 2012)
  Imagination Technologies has released version 2.10 of its industry leading PowerVR Insider SDK (software development kit). The PowerVR Insider SDK fully supports the development of applications using the Khronos OpenGL® ES 1.1 and 2.0 APIs.
  
  
• New ARM DS-5 v5.9 Toolchain Provides Developers With an Integrated Processor and GPU Software Optimization Platform For Mobile Gaming (Monday Mar. 05, 2012)
  
  
  
• ARM announces support for STMicroelectronics STM32 F0 series in the MDK-ARM Development Kit (Monday Mar. 05, 2012)
  ARM today announced full support within the ARM Keil™ MDK-ARM™ development kit for STMicroelectronics’ new STM32 F0 series of devices. The STM32 F0 series is the first STM32 series based on the ARM® Cortex™-M0 processor.
  
  
• ARM announces support for Silicon Labs ARM Cortex-M3 devices in the MDK-ARM Development Kit (Friday Mar. 02, 2012)
  ARM today announced that the Keil™ MDK-ARM™ development kit will support the ARM® Cortex™-M3 based Silicon Labs Precision32™ family from launch
  
  
• MIPS Technologies and SAI Technologies Demonstrate Performance Benefits of Multi-Threading for LTE Systems (Tuesday Feb. 28, 2012)
  MIPS Technologies and SAI Technology announced that they achieved a performance increase of over 65% across various packet sizes when leveraging MIPS’ multi-threaded technology running SAI’s LTE Protocol Stack for User Equipment (UE) terminals.
  
  
• ARM Enables Energy-Aware Coding with the ARM Energy Probe and DS-5 Toolchain (Tuesday Feb. 28, 2012)
  ARM announced today at Embedded World 2012 a new tools solution to promote widespread energy-efficient software optimization across the Linux and Android™ communities. The new ARM® Energy Probe is used by the ARM Streamline™ Performance Analyzer to capture power consumption data alongside software activity.
  
  
• ARM Extends CMSIS with RTOS API and System View Description (Tuesday Feb. 28, 2012)
  ARM today announced the availability of Version 3.0 of the ARM® Cortex™ Microcontroller Software Interface Standard (CMSIS). CMSIS 3.0 is expanded with a standardized API for Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) kernels and support for System View Description (SVD) XML files.
  
  
• Opera Mobile Comes to MIPS-Based Android Tablets (Monday Feb. 27, 2012)
  MIPS Technologies and Opera Software have worked together to optimize the highly popular Opera Mobile browser for MIPS-Based Android mobile devices.
  
  
• Broadcom Introduces New Platforms Optimized for Android 'Ice Cream Sandwich' Smartphones (Monday Feb. 27, 2012)
  Broadcom today announced three smartphone platforms optimized to provide superior native support for the rich and immersive experience of the Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" operating system (OS).
  
  
• Xamarin Adding Support for MIPS Architecture to Popular Mono for Android Application Development Platform (Monday Feb. 27, 2012)
  Xamarin together with MIPS Technologies today announced that Xamarin's Mono for Android platform will support application development for MIPS-Based Android 4.0 'Ice Cream Sandwich' devices.
  
  
• Arkamys Audio Enhancement Software and Services Being Ported To Tensilica's HiFi Audio DSPs (Friday Feb. 24, 2012)
  Tensilica, Inc. and Arkamys today announced that Arkamys digital audio software currently is being ported on Tensilica's HiFi Audio DSPs. This set of software is complemented with the availability of audio design and tuning services.
  
  
• Sensory and Tensilica Partner to Offer Complete Speech Recognition Subsystem (Thursday Feb. 23, 2012)
  Tensilica and Sensory today announced that the two companies are partnering to bring Sensory's TrulyHandsfree Voice Control to Tensilica's leading HiFi Audio DSPs (digital signal processors ) for SOC (system-on-chip) designs.
  
  
• Altair Semiconductor to Bring its Leading LTE Chipset to MIPS-Based Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" Tablets from Ingenic (Wednesday Feb. 22, 2012)
  Altair Semiconductor, MIPS Technologies, Inc., and Ingenic Semiconductor today announced that they are bringing Altair's MIPS-Based FourGee LTE chipset to MIPS-Based Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" tablets from Ingenic.
  
  
• AuthenTec Extends Content Protection Offerings with Solution Suite for HDCP (Wednesday Feb. 22, 2012)
  AuthenTec today introduced a new content protection offering for High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) that enables consumers to share high definition and high value content among multiple devices.
  
  
• CEVA and Antcor Announce Low Power, Wi-Fi 802.11ac Reference Architecture for the New CEVA-XC4000 DSP Architecture Framework (Tuesday Feb. 21, 2012)
  CEVA and CEVA-XCnet partner Antcor announced today a new software-based, reference architecture targeting multi-mode Wi-Fi 802.11ac mobile stations (STA).
  
  
• CEVA Introduces Low Power, Multi-Mode LTE-Advanced Reference Architecture for the New CEVA-XC4000 DSP Architecture Framework (Tuesday Feb. 21, 2012)
  Multi-mode design, provides customers complete flexibility to support multiple wireless standards, including LTE-A, LTE, TD-SCDMA, HSPA+, and more
  
  
• MIPS Technologies and Intrinsic-ID Team to add Top-level Security to Mobile Platforms (Tuesday Feb. 21, 2012)
  Through the collaboration, MIPS licensees and OEMs can enable their platforms with compelling security-centric applications, such as media content protection, secure payment transactions and secure cloud storage
  
  
• First Tegra-Powered Smartphone Announced With NVIDIA's Icera Modem Technology (Tuesday Feb. 21, 2012)
  NVIDIA and ZTE today announced the ZTE Mimosa X, the first smartphone to be powered both by the NVIDIA ® Tegra ® application processor and its Icera® modem, which came to NVIDIA through its Icera acquisition in mid-2011.
  
  
• Sital's Multi-Standard PMC and cPCI HyperBoard Available for Mil-Std-1553, WB-194, H009, ARINC-429 and Other Protocols (Thursday Feb. 16, 2012)
  Sital Technology announces the launch of its new PMC and Compact PCI Hyperboard, a platform for avionics communication bus applications. PMC HyperBoard is a PCI Mezzanine Card, PMC-compatible, multi-standard board that contains up to eight channels of Mil-Std-1553.