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• Atmel and Redpine Signals Collaborate to Provide Ultra-Low-Power 802.11n Wi-Fi Capability for AVR and ARM-based Microcontrollers (Wednesday Sep. 28, 2011)
  Atmel and Redpine today announced that system engineers can easily implement 802.11n Wi-Fi to all Atmel AVR® and ARM®-based microcontrollers (MCUs) using Redpine Signals' Connect-io-n™ and n-Link™ modules.
  
  
• NXP to Offer emWin Graphic Library Free with ARM Microcontrollers (Tuesday Sep. 27, 2011)
  NXP Semiconductors N.V. (Nasdaq: NXPI) and SEGGER Microcontroller today announced that the emWin graphic library will be offered for free with NXP ARM® microcontrollers. Developed by SEGGER, emWin provides a robust, efficient GUI for any application operating with a graphical LCD, and features outstanding support for high-quality anti-aliased text and shapes.
  
  
• Wind River and Leadcore Team to Develop and Test Android SoC (Thursday Sep. 22, 2011)
  Wind River and Leadcore Technology Co. Ltd. today announced that the two companies have collaborated to develop a new Android system-on-chip (SoC) smartphone platform.
  
  
• IAR Systems Collaborates with HOLT Integrated Circuits for the MIL-STD-1553 Application Development Kits using ARM Cortex-M3 (Thursday Sep. 22, 2011)
  IAR Systems® today announced its collaboration with HOLT Integrated Circuits for their MIL-STD-1553 application development kit, HI-6130. HOLT Integrated Circuits is a major supplier of ICs for avionics and military data bus and display applications.
  
  
• STMicroelectronics Launches World's Most Powerful Cortex processor-based Microcontrollers (Wednesday Sep. 21, 2011)
  This extension to the STM32® platform is based on the latest ARM® Cortex™-M4 core, which adds signal-processing capabilities and faster operations to the already outstanding portfolio of STM32 microcontrollers; the new series, which is available now, reinforces ST’s leadership and claims the title of highest-performance Cortex-M processor-based microcontroller range in the market.
  
  
• Atollic boosts ARM processor-based development productivity with unveiling of Atollic TrueSTUDIO for ARM (Friday Sep. 16, 2011)
  Atollic TrueSTUDIO is a world-class development and debugging tool that offers a state-of-the-art editor, an optimizing C/C++ compiler and a multiprocessor-aware debugger with real-time tracing.
  
  
• SRS Labs Expands Portfolio of Advanced Audio Solutions Available for Tensilica HiFi DSP Cores (Wednesday Sep. 14, 2011)
  SRS Labs announced today that it has expanded its audio processing IP portfolio offering for Tensilica processors. Chip manufacturers who license Tensilica's HiFi 2 and HiFi EP DSP cores are now able to quickly implement and license several SRS audio technologies.
  
  
• HD Enterprise Class Content Distribution and Delivery Now Enabled with Ittiam's Video Networking System on TI's DaVinci digital media technology (Wednesday Sep. 14, 2011)
  Ittiam announced the availability of Video Networking System (VNS) for enterprise content distribution (ECD) addressing the requirement of a complete media delivery system within an organization.
  
  
• Imagination and Orca partner to deliver highly integrated TV receiver solutions (Tuesday Sep. 13, 2011)
  Imagination Technologies and Orca Systems are developing new solutions for combined RF and baseband targeting future generations of digital and connected TVs.
  
  
• New Partnership Brings Audyssey's Sound Correction Technologies To Tensilica's HiFi Audio DSP (Tuesday Sep. 13, 2011)
  Tensilica, Inc. and Audyssey announced today that they are working together to bring Audyssey's award-winning audio technologies to Tensilica's HiFi Audio DSP (digital signal processing) core for digital television (DTV), automotive and mobile applications.
  
  
• EtherWaves Expands Digital Radio Choice - Adds Support for Tensilica Dataplane Processor Cores (Monday Sep. 12, 2011)
  EtherWaves and Tensilica today announced the further expansion of the ClearSignal software-based DAB/DMB solution, by porting to Tensilica's Xtensa® dataplane processor architecture.
  
  
• CoreEL Technologies launches its low cost audio-video decoding module solution (Monday Sep. 12, 2011)
  CoreEL Technologies announced the launch of its low cost audio-video decoding module solution.The VDMS6HD module supports H.264 Hi422P 10-bit and MPEG-2 422@HL profile video decoding with resolutions from SD to 1080p30 along with an array of industry standard audio decoders.
  
  
• Content Sharing Solution for Android Devices Utilizing DLNA and Secure DTCP-IP (Monday Sep. 12, 2011)
  Discretix and AwoX announced the availability of a secure DTCP-IP solution for Android devices.
  
  
• Kontron Makes a Strategic Entry Into ARM Architecture Addressing Customer Needs in Power Consumption, Performance per Watt (Thursday Sep. 08, 2011)
  Today, Kontron announced its strategic entry into ARM architecture, enabling a new breed of embedded scalable building blocks for application-ready platforms with low-power consumption. The first products planned for 2011 will be in the module and board form factors.
  
  
• GOEPEL electronic provides new Test and Programming Strategies for Texas Instruments DaVinci Media Processors (Tuesday Sep. 06, 2011)
  GOEPEL electronic has developed special VarioTAP IP’s for TI’s DaVinci Digital Media Systems-on-Chip for the TMS320DM3xx series.
  
  
• DSP Group Announces Availability of Its First XpandR III Reference Design for Connected Multimedia Terminals (Thursday Sep. 01, 2011)
  XpandR III is DSP Group's state-of-the-art multimedia chipset solution supporting High Definition voice with DECT/CAT-iq 2.0, High Definition video communication with Wi-Fi 11n, powerful graphic and security.
  
  
• ARM CoreTile Express for Cortex-A5 Processor (Tuesday Aug. 09, 2011)
  ARM announces the immediate availability of the CoreTile™ Express development board for the Cortex™-A5 MPCore™ processor.
  
  
• Imagination and Kishonti preview GLBenchmark 2.5 at SIGGRAPH 2011 (Tuesday Aug. 09, 2011)
  Imagination Technologies and Kishonti Informatics are demonstrating a preview of the latest Kishonti GLBenchmark 2.5 benchmark running on some of the latest devices powered by PowerVR graphics
  
  
• Imagination previews Brazil 3.0 Beta running on OpenRL (Tuesday Aug. 09, 2011)
  Imagination Technologies is showing with partners the first examples of a growing portfolio of solutions based on the new Brazil™ 3.0 beta interactive ray tracing renderer, built using Imagination’s ground-breaking Caustic ray tracing technologies including the OpenRL™ API
  
  
• Micrium Makes uC/OS-III Source Available (Monday Aug. 08, 2011)
  Micrium today announced a new policy for the distribution of the source code of the popular real-time kernel µC/OS-III. The kernel is now officially "source available," meaning that developers who wish to evaluate µC/OS-III can download its source code free of charge.
  
  
• Vector Fabrics working with Imagination Technologies to tap the power of multi-pipe and multi-core PowerVR GPUs (Friday Aug. 05, 2011)
  Vector Fabrics’ vfEmbedded tool makes it easy to analyze and parallelize software making full use of OpenCL for application processors with PowerVR SGX Graphics Processing Units (GPUs).
  
  
• Lauterbach TRACE32 Supports MIPS32 M14K Core Family (Tuesday Aug. 02, 2011)
  MIPS Technologies and Lauterbach announced that TRACE32® debuggers from Lauterbach now support the MIPS32® M14K and M14Kc processor cores. M14K cores leverage advanced code compression technology to deliver high performance of 1.5 DMIPS/MHz while reducing code size by up to 35%, translating to significant silicon cost savings.
  
  
• mimoOn integrates LTE PHY software on Texas Instruments' new system-on-chips for small cell base stations (Monday Aug. 01, 2011)
  mimoOn today announced its collaboration with TI for 3GPP compliant LTE PHY software. TI will offer complete PHY software for LTE Release 8 and 9 for its’ KeyStone multicore architecture.
  
  
• Comsis dramatically improves the QoS of WiFi networks (Thursday Jul. 28, 2011)
  Comsis has just announced the completion of a new medium access method which dramatically improves the Quality of Service (QoS) of WiFi networks.
  
  
• Cambridge Consultants develops industry's smallest 2G and 3G femtocell base station (Thursday Jul. 28, 2011)
  Cambridge Consultants today launched the smallest commercially available 2G and 3G small-cell platform. Sidewinder is software configurable between GSM/GPRS/EDGE, WCDMA/HSPA+ and other SDR applications, providing new levels of adaptability for cellular base stations.
  
  
• Altior Launches Software Development Kit for Hardware-Accelerated Data Compression for Web Servers, Network and Storage Applications (Wednesday Jul. 27, 2011)
  Altior has announced the availability of its software development kit (SDK), which allows system developers in the network and storage markets to rapidly deploy industry-standard compression and decompression protocols using the company’s AltraFlex PCI Express®-enabled, FPGA-based hardware acceleration card solution.
  
  
• Mentor Graphics Announces Comprehensive Embedded Software Development Program for Hardware Companies (Tuesday Jul. 26, 2011)
  Mentor Graphics today announced a new program composed of the Mentor® Embedded professional services and products specifically for hardware companies.
  
  
• ARM Releases Fast Models v6.1 (Monday Jul. 25, 2011)
  ARM has announced the release of the Fast Models v6.1, which adds support for the Cortex™-A15 and Cortex-R5 cores along with updates to the ARMv7-A Architecture Envelope Model (AEMv7), providing access to high performance Programmer's View (PV) models for the latest ARM IP.
  
  
• AuthenTec Introduces New SafeZone Secure Platform Solution for Connected Mobile Devices (Monday Jul. 18, 2011)
  AuthenTec today introduced its new SafeZone™ secure platform solution for mobile and consumer systems on a chip (SoCs).
  
  
• New Freescale i.MX platform extends to advanced, low-power display applications (Monday Jul. 11, 2011)
  i.MX50 processors with software and dedicated power management IC provide single-source solutions that streamline development and help speed time-to-market