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• Mentor Graphics Announces Support of Model-driven Design for Six Sigma in the Automotive Industry (Thursday Jul. 17, 2008)
  Mentor Graphics today announced that its virtual prototyping tool, SystemVision™, supports Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) methodologies to achieve cost-effective design innovation by a model-driven development process.
  
  
• Mentor Graphics Achieves Industry-First OpenMAX Conformance for Nucleus OS Multimedia Framework (Wednesday Jul. 16, 2008)
  Mentor today announced that the Nucleus® Operating System (OS) Multimedia Framework (MMF) has passed OpenMAX™ IL conformance testing on the Atmel AT91SAM9261 platform.
  
  
• Fujitsu launches ARM1176 prototyping kit (Tuesday Jul. 15, 2008)
  Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe announced the launch of an ARM1176 prototyping kit, designed to shorten the development time for customers using its ASIC and COT services to develop SoCs that include the ARM1176JZF-S™, ARM926EJ-S™, or ARM946E-S™ processor cores.
  
  
• Discretix to Demo CPRM Content Protection At Wireless Japan 2008 On TI OMAP3 Platform And M-Shield Security (Monday Jul. 14, 2008)
  The Discretix solution implements CPRM without the need for a dedicated CPRM hardware chip; it also builds on the proven track record of Discretix DRM solutions with TI’s M-Shield technology, a partnership established in 2006.
  
  
• ARM RealView Family of Tools Adds Device Support for Freescale i.MX31 Platform (Wednesday Jun. 25, 2008)
  The device support is provided to enable embedded developers to start development on Freescale i.MX31 processors quickly.
  
  
• Industry's Leading GNU-based Toolchain Available Now Optimized for MIPS Cores (Wednesday Jun. 25, 2008)
  MIPS Technologies today announced that a MIPS®-optimized release of Sourcery G++, a complete C/C++ development environment based on the GNU Toolchain and the EclipseTM IDE, is available now from CodeSourcery, Inc.
  
  
• Agility Introduces Programmable Platform for Image and Signal Processing (Tuesday Jun. 24, 2008)
  The RC240 is ideal for the design and optimization of high-performance, high-throughput algorithms using an FPGA and an ARM 922T core in digital entertainment, communications, in-car infotainment, robotics and machine vision applications.
  
  
• ARM7-Based MCU With FPGA Interface to Multi-Layer AHB (Wednesday Jun. 18, 2008)
  Atmel today announced the AT91CAP7E, the industry's first ARM7(TM)-based MCU with a direct FPGA interface.
  
  
• Ashling Microsystems New range of Development tools for ARM powered devices (Wednesday Jun. 18, 2008)
  The tool kit, competitively priced at US$950, consists of a JTAG debug probe (Opella-XD) and an updated version of Ashling’s flagship “PathFinder” Source Debugger.
  
  
• On2 Joins MIPS Alliance Program; Leading Video Codec Solutions Now Available for MIPS-Based Processors (Tuesday Jun. 17, 2008)
  On2 will optimize its TrueMotion® VP6® decoder, used in Adobe® Flash® video, for the MIPS32® 24K® and MIPS32® 24KE™ cores, which are widely used in DVD and set-top box solutions, and will offer a 'one-stop-shop' for video codecs to chipset and device manufacturers.
  
  
• Eureka Technology Lowers the Cost of Secure Digital (SD) and MultiMedia Card (MMC) Development (Monday Jun. 16, 2008)
  The SD Host Development Board features SD/MMC socket to accept SD/MMC card device, PCI bus, on board memory and a Xilinx® Spartan®-3 FPGA. The development board also comes with Eureka’s SD host controller IP core pre-programmed into the on-board platform Flash device.
  
  
• Mentor Graphics Expands Nucleus Platform Solutions to Freescale i.MX31 Processor for Multimedia Applications (Friday Jun. 13, 2008)
  Based on the Nucleus® Operating System (OS), a powerful user interface (UI) engine, and a full complement of development tools, Nucleus platform solutions offer integrated, validated and optimized support for reference hardware to help jump start the development of portable electronic devices.
  
  
• Imperas Announces Licensing, Distribution Relationship with Tensilica (Thursday Jun. 12, 2008)
  Tensilica has signed a partnership agreement with Imperas to allow fast functional, instruction accurate models of its popular Xtensa and Diamond Standard processors to run on Open Virtual Platform (OVP) based virtual platforms.
  
  
• SafeNet Announces World's First Complete MACsec Embedded Security Solutions for LAN and Metro Ethernet Communications (Tuesday Jun. 10, 2008)
  Portfolio of software toolkits and hardware IP support full 802.1AE and 802.1X-REV implementation; lowers costs and reduces time to market for Networking OEMs
  
  
• FS2 Introduces System Navigator Probe for Development Using the New Ultra Low Power Handshake Solutions Memory Extension HT80C51 Core (Friday Jun. 06, 2008)
  The tool suite, based on FS2’s unique On-chip Instrumentation (OCI®) debug core technology is able to recognize and respond to the “handshake”-based system of requests and acknowledgements used when the processor interacts with the various devices in the system.
  
  
• Enea and CEVA Announce Enea OSE ck Real-Time Operating System for CEVA-X and CEVA-TeakLite-III DSP Architectures (Wednesday Jun. 04, 2008)
  Enea and CEVA today announced the availability of the Enea OSE®ck real-time operating system for two CEVA DSP architectures: the CEVA-TeakLite-III and the CEVA-X
  
  
• MindTree Unveils Bluetooth Automotive SDK (Wednesday Jun. 04, 2008)
  MindTree today announced the availability of its EtherMind Bluetooth Software Development Kit (SDK) for the automotive market targeting infotainment and Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs).
  
  
• Tensilica and SPIRIT DSP Form Strategic Partnership and Deliver Mobile Multimedia Audio and Voice for Xtensa HiFi 2 Audio Engine (Wednesday Jun. 04, 2008)
  Immediately available, SPIRIT audio software packages include: AAC-LC decode and encode, aacPlus v1 and v2 decode and encode, BSAC decode, MP3 decode and encode, Ogg Vorbis decode, and WMA decode and encode. Voice codecs include AMR-NB (narrowband), AMR-WB and G.729AB.
  
  
• Tensilica Announces New Open Source Linux Emphasis, Broadens Processor Core Ecosystem with New Linux Partners TimeSys and Embedded Alley (Monday Jun. 02, 2008)
  Tensilica, Inc. today announced that Embedded Linux 2.6 and GNU tools based on GCC 4.2, both available at www.linux-xtensa.org, is now backed by two well-respected Linux industry partners
  
  
• Timesys Announces Strategic Alliance with Tensilica (Monday Jun. 02, 2008)
  The LinuxLink subscription will provide developers with a complete embedded Linux platform that has been integrated and tested for Tensilica processor cores, including an optimized kernel, drivers, toolchain, and initial root filesystem.
  
  
• Embedded Alley Adds Embedded Linux Support for Tensilica's Processor Cores (Monday Jun. 02, 2008)
  Embedded Alley Solutions (EA Solutions) today announced Tensilica will utilize its unique Silicon Vendor Partner Program to provide embedded Linux support for the Diamond Standard and Xtensa configurable processor cores.
  
  
• Mistral Announces Its First Solution on the ARM Cortex-A8 Processor (Thursday May. 15, 2008)
  Mistral, a leading product realization company specializing in real-time embedded solutions, announced the availability of the ARM® Cortex™-A8 processor-based development platform, the OMAP35x evaluation module (EVM).
  
  
• Atmel's 400 MHz ARM9-based Embedded Microprocessor Consumes Only 80 mW in Active Mode (Thursday May. 15, 2008)
  Atmel announced today its 400 MHz AT91SAM9G20 ARM926EJ-S based embedded microprocessor that draws only 80 mW in full-power mode with all peripherals turned on.
  
  
• PrKERNELv4 from eSOL Supports Faraday's ARMv4 ISA-based FA526 Processor (Tuesday May. 13, 2008)
  eSOL today announced that its leading realtime operating system, PrKERNELv4, coupled with the integrated development environment eBinder, now supports Faraday's ARMv4 ISA-based FA526 processor.
  
  
• ARM Enables Rapid Deployment of Microsoft Windows Embedded CE on ARM Processors with RealView ICE (Tuesday May. 06, 2008)
  The Extended Debugging Interface (eXDI) drivers developed by ARM for the RealView ICE unit enables Windows Embedded CE operating system developers to immediately take advantage of the extended debug capabilities enabled by the ICE unit to gain full visibility and control of the ARM processor-based hardware.
  
  
• Expanded VPX DSP offering with two more products based on the Freescale MPC8641D and Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs (Tuesday May. 06, 2008)
  These products integrate Freescale Power Architecture™ MPC8641D dual-core PowerPC processors for general purpose processing with Xilinx® Virtex®-5 FPGAs in a single slot.
  
  
• Iveia Announces the Titan-V5e Small Form Factor Processing Module Utilizing System-On-A-Chip Technology and the Xilinx Virtex- 5 FXT (Monday May. 05, 2008)
  The Titan-V5e combines the embedded PowerPC 440 processor of the Virtex-5 FXT with iVeia’s Velocity-SoC technology, enabling the rapid development of high-performance signal and image processing applications in an ultra-small form factor.
  
  
• Tensilica Adds Dolby TrueHD Decoder to Xtensa HiFi 2 Audio Engine Codec Library (Tuesday Apr. 29, 2008)
  Tensilica,® Inc. today announced that it has added the Dolby® TrueHD decoder to its audio codec library for Tensilica’s Xtensa® HiFi 2 Audio Engine, one of the most popular commercial audio cores for system-on-chip (SOC) designs.
  
  
• National Instruments LabVIEW Targets Industry-Leading ARM Microcontrollers (Thursday Apr. 17, 2008)
  National Instruments and ARM today announced the NI LabVIEW Embedded Module for ARM Microcontrollers, an extension of the LabVIEW graphical system design platform that directly targets the ARM 7™, ARM 9™ and Cortex™-M3 microcontroller families.
  
  
• Sun and Wind River Partner to Deliver Carrier Grade Linux for Next-Generation Networking on Sun's UltraSPARC(R) T2 Processor (Wednesday Apr. 16, 2008)
  Platform Helps Customers Accelerate Delivery of High-Performance Multicore-Enabled Applications, Sun Netra Systems Will Be First