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• CEVA, Dirac Partner to Offer Speaker Correction Audio Post-processing Technology for the CEVA-TeakLite-III Architecture (Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012)
  CEVA and Dirac Research AB announced today that the companies have partnered to deliver advanced speaker correction capabilities for the 32-bit CEVA-TeakLite-III DSP targeting mobile, home and automotive applications.
  
  
• MediaTek Launches MT6575 Android Platform (Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012)
  MediaTek today announced the availability of the MT6575, its 3rd generation platform for mid and entry‐level Android smartphones. The MT6575 platform offers a 1GHz ARM® CortexTM‐A9 processer, a proven 3G/HSPA modem and runs the latest “Ice‐Cream Sandwich” Android 4.0 release.
  
  
• NXP Releases World's First Dual Supply Voltage ARM Cortex-M0 Microcontrollers (Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012)
  NXP Semiconductors today announced its LPC1100LV series, the world’s first ARM® Cortex™-M0 microcontroller with dual supply voltage of 1.65V to 1.95V VDD and 1.65V to 3.6V VIO. The LPC1100LV series offers 50 MIPS performance in a tiny 2-mm x 2-mm footprint with over three times power reduction compared to similar 3.3V VDD devices.
  
  
• mimoOn and Tensilica Offer Complete LTE PHY Reference Platform for User Equipment and eNodeB PHY at Mobile World Congress 2012 (Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012)
  Tensilica and mimoOn today announced the companies will showcase a mutually developed demonstration of a low power, high-performance LTE User Equipment and eNodeB PHY with real-time downlink and uplink traffic at the upcoming Mobile World Congress 2012 event.
  
  
• Acoustic Technologies Noise Reduction and Echo Cancellation Software Now Available on Maxim's MAX98095 Based on Tensilica's HiFi Audio/Voice DSPs (Monday Feb. 13, 2012)
  Acoustic Technologies, Inc. and Tensilica, Inc., today announced that Acoustic Technologies' SoundClear Mobile Voice 2-mic noise elimination and echo cancellation software has been ported to Tensilica's HiFi Audio DSPs.
  
  
• Latest Linaro GCC Toolchain Release Supports Full Range of ARM Cortex-A Processors (Friday Feb. 10, 2012)
  Linaro announced today the 2012.02 release of Linaro GCC 4.6 and Linaro GCC 4.5 which offers full support for the ARM Cortex-A processors family including the Cortex-A5, Cortex-A7, Cortex-A8, Cortex-A9 and Cortex-A15.
  
  
• Elliptic Unveils Innovative tVault Security Architecture For Trusted Execution Environments (Tuesday Feb. 07, 2012)
  Elliptic Technologies has introduced the tVault™ Security Architecture - a flagship technology that enables end-to-end security in connected devices. tVault provides robust security inside Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) and enforces the protection of sensitive information to ensure that it is stored, processed and accessed only by authorized applications.
  
  
• AMD Strategy Transformation Brings Agile Delivery of Industry-Leading IP to the Market (Monday Feb. 06, 2012)
  AMD detailed a new "ambidextrous" strategy that builds on the company's long history of x86 and graphics innovation while embracing other technologies and intellectual property to deliver differentiated products. AMD is adopting an SoC-centric roadmap designed to speed time-to-market, drive sustained execution, and enable the development of more tailored customer solutions.
  
  
• Keil MDK-ARM support for Freescale MQX software provides greater choice and improved flexibility for designers using Kinetis microcontrollers based on the ARM Cortex-M4 processor (Thursday Feb. 02, 2012)
  ARM® today announced the immediate availability of Keil™ MDK-ARM™ (Microcontroller Development Kit) support for the Freescale MQX real-time operating system (RTOS) and software stacks. Keil MDK-ARM now offers tight integration with Freescale MQX software solutions, and provides greater choice and increased flexibility for designers using Kinetis™ microcontrollers based on the ARM Cortex™-M4 processor.
  
  
• Express Logic Brings High Performance to Cortex-M4 with ThreadX RTOS and NetX Duo TCP/IP Stack (Thursday Feb. 02, 2012)
  Express Logic today announced that it has ported its popular ThreadX RTOS and NetX TCP/IP stack to support a wide range of processors based on ARM’s Cortex-M4™.
  
  
• Qualcomm Chipset Powers First Successful VoIP-Over-LTE Call With Single Radio Voice Call Continuity (Thursday Feb. 02, 2012)
  Successful Completion of a Voice Call Handover from LTE to WCDMA Network Marks Key Milestone in Development of VoLTE
  
  
• eInfochips Announces Smallest Form-Factor System-on-Module Based on TI's DaVinci DM816x and DM814x Video Processors (Monday Jan. 30, 2012)
  eInfochips today announced the launch of smallest form-factor system-on-modules (SOM) developed based on the DaVinci™ DM816x and DM814x video processors from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI).
  
  
• NetLogic Microsystems Announces the Industry's First Open–Source Xen Hypervisor for Multi-Core MIPS64 Processors (Monday Jan. 30, 2012)
  NetLogic Microsystems today announced the industry’s first open–source Xen® hypervisor for high-performance multi-core MIPS64® processors. The XEN hypervisor enables highly efficient virtualization for next-generation communications, networking and server platforms using the industry’s best-in-class XLP® and XLP II multi-core, multi-threaded processors.
  
  
• Samplify Systems Announces APAX Acceleration for Multi-Core Applications (Wednesday Jan. 25, 2012)
  Samplify Systems, Inc., today announces APAX(TM) application acceleration technology which improves the performance of multi-core processors. Samplify will deliver APAX as both software for high-performance computing (HPC), and as intellectual property for SoCs and new FPGA families with embedded processors.
  
  
• Lauterbach and Beyond Semiconductor Partner for Easier System Development with BA22 Royalty Free 32-bit Processors (Tuesday Jan. 24, 2012)
  Lauterbach TRACE32 software development tools now support the Beyond BA22 Family of microprocessor cores for deeply embedded system controllers through full application processors.
  
  
• TI unveils ZigBee Smart Energy 2.0 system-on-chip with integrated ARM Cortex-M3 processor and memory (Monday Jan. 23, 2012)
  TI today announced the industry's first demonstration of a radio frequency (RF) system-on-chip (SoC) that integrates an IEEE 802.15.4 (2.4 GHz) radio, an ARM® Cortex™-M3 processor, dedicated Smart Energy (SE) 2.0 hardware security acceleration, and enough flash and RAM to run the ZigBee® IP stack and SE2.0 profile.
  
  
• New Infineon 32-bit Microcontroller Family XMC4000 for Industrial Applications Combines Powerful Application-optimized Peripherals and ARM Cortex-M4 processor (Monday Jan. 23, 2012)
  Today Infineon Technologies introduced its new XMC4000 32-bit microcontroller family, which uses the Cortex™-M4 processor from ARM®.
  
  
• INSIDE Secure Introduces Open NFC Stack for Google Android 4.0 (Wednesday Jan. 18, 2012)
  INSIDE Secure today announced the availability of the latest version of its award-winning, open-source Open NFC protocol stack for the new Google Android 4.0 release, aka Ice Cream Sandwich.
  
  
• Mentor Graphics Partners with Freescale to Deliver Vista-based Virtual Prototype Solution for Freescale Processors (Friday Jan. 13, 2012)
  Mentor Graphics today announced it has signed a preferred, long-term partnership agreement with Freescale Semiconductor to deliver state-of-the-art, high-speed simulation platforms for Freescale’s QorIQ® P-Series, AMP and QorIQ Qonverge™ product lines of multicore embedded processors.
  
  
• AceThought introduces multi-threaded software video decoder suite for ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore and Cortex-A15 MPCore multi-core processors (Thursday Jan. 12, 2012)
  Ace Thought Technologies today introduced its multi-threaded software video decoder suite for ARM® Cortex™-A series of application processors. The decoder suite supports video decoding of H.264 (AVC) Baseline, Main & High Profile, VC-1 Simple, Main & Advance Profile, MPEG-4 Simple & Advanced Simple Profile, H.263 and MPEG-2 video compression standards.
  
  
• TI's OMAP platform powers Windows 8 tablets with advanced visual and computing capabilities (Tuesday Jan. 10, 2012)
  Texas Instruments hosts an OMAP4470 processor-based tablet running on a pre-release version of Windows 8 at the 2012 CES, demonstrating how the latest OMAP™ 4 platform distinctly supports Microsoft's new computing experience, Windows 8.
  
  
• Marvell and Tuxera Announce Industry's Fastest Full-Featured NAS Solution (Tuesday Jan. 10, 2012)
  Built on the Marvell® Kirkwood® and ARMADA® chipsets, Tuxera’s optimized XFS and NTFS technology offers superior performance compared to competing Linux solutions.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Teams with Leading Providers of Multimedia and Gaming Solutions to Enable Multi-screen Consumer Experience (Monday Jan. 09, 2012)
  MIPS is working with TransGaming Inc., the global leader in the multiplatform deployment of interactive entertainment, to bring real-time, multi-screen gaming to Android digital home and mobile platforms. Separately, MIPS Technologies and PacketVideo are collaborating to deliver advanced multimedia sharing between consumer devices.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Teams with Gameloft to Bring Popular HD Games to MIPS-Based Android Tablets (Monday Jan. 09, 2012)
  MIPS Technologies and Gameloft announced they are working together to optimize several of Gameloft's cutting-edge video games for new MIPS-Based tablets.
  
  
• Tensilica HiFi Audio DSP Supports Dolby Volume to Eliminate Volume Fluctuations in Home Entertainment Systems and DTVs (Thursday Jan. 05, 2012)
  Tensilica today announced the immediate availability of Dolby Volume on its popular HiFi Audio DSPs (digital signal processors). The implementation is based on software developed by Dolby and has passed Dolby's certification.
  
  
• Software Porting to Tensilica-based Multicore SOC Designs now aided by PolyCore Software's Poly-Platform (Thursday Dec. 22, 2011)
  PolyCore Software, Inc. (PSI) and Tensilica, Inc. today announced a partnership to make it easier and faster for developers to port their software to, or design software for, integrated circuits with multiple Tensilica dataplane processors (DPUs).
  
  
• Latest Release of Android "Ice Cream Sandwich" Comes to the MIPS Architecture (Wednesday Dec. 21, 2011)
  MIPS today announced that Android 4.0.3, the latest release of the Android 4.0 platform also known as "Ice Cream Sandwich," is now available for the MIPS® architecture.
  
  
• Nuvoton Introduces First Audio SoC with ARM Technology (Tuesday Dec. 20, 2011)
  Nuvoton today introduced the ChipCorder® ISD9160 system-on-a-chip (SOC) device, the industry’s first ChipCorder to feature a 32-bit ARM® Cortex™-M0 microcontroller core.
  
  
• Recore Systems and CRC partner to port high velocity digital radio L-band listening to Recore's DSP application platform (Monday Dec. 19, 2011)
  The transition from FM and AM radio to DAB/DAB+/DMB digital radio introduces a potential disappointment for those enjoying radio listening to local stations while traveling, since at higher speeds radio reception deteriorates for stations using DAB transmission mode IV in the L-band, the designated frequency band for local radio stations. Recore Systems and CRC - Canada’s renowned Communications Research Centre are working together to solve this problem by porting CRC’s proven Doppler Effect mitigation technique to Recore Systems’ DSP application platform, optimized for this type of Software Defined Radio (SDR) solution.
  
  
• CEVA and Idea! Electronic Systems Partner to Deliver Software-Based ISDB-T Solution for DTV Demodulation (Thursday Dec. 15, 2011)
  CEVA today announced a new software-based product offering for multi-standard DTV demodulation based on its CEVA-XC DSP core.