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• MIPS Technologies Introduces Industry's First Hot Spot Analyzer for Fast Linux Kernel Profiling (Tuesday Apr. 15, 2008)
  With the Hot Spot Analyzer (HSA), software engineers can quickly identify program bottlenecks that are restricting system performance. The HSA builds on the unique Zero Overhead Program Counter (PC) Sampling feature built into the MIPS32® 24K®, MIPS32® 34K® and MIPS32® 74KTM core families.
  
  
• ARM and Express Logic Enhance Out-of-Box Experience for ThreadX Development with RealView Tools (Monday Apr. 14, 2008)
  Enhanced support in ARM RealView Development Suite 3.1 Professional significantly reduces development time and ensures optimal tools configuration for Express Logic RTOS portfolio
  
  
• Gaisler Research Announces Nucleus OS Support for The LEON Processor (Friday Apr. 11, 2008)
  Gaisler Research today announced that Mentor Graphics Nucleus® Operating System (OS) is now supported on the LEON3 processor.
  
  
• Sarnoff Releases New H.264/AVC Bitstreams for OpenCable (Wednesday Apr. 09, 2008)
  Sarnoff Corporation today announced the public launch of the new OpenCable H.264/AVC Suite, a cable version of its video decoder testing suite that provides real-time and automated compliance testing of next-generation H.264/AVC digital video decoders in digital/high definition television (DTV/HDTV) receivers and cable converters.
  
  
• Barco announces a complete set of HD and DCI JPEG 2000 encoder and decoder video boards (Wednesday Apr. 09, 2008)
  Barco Silex is pleased to announce its new DCPB-2000 family of JPEG 2000 PCI-Express Acceleration boards. Capitalizing on its leadership in real-time and high-definition JPEG 2000 IP cores, this family of boards encodes and decodes JPEG 2000 in real-time.
  
  
• Ocean Blue develops software for High Definition interactive TV (Wednesday Apr. 09, 2008)
  Ocean Blue Software will shortly be releasing the first digital terrestrial TV system to provide High Definition interactive services
  
  
• Ambric and MainConcept Collaborate to Accelerate High Definition Video Compression (Thursday Apr. 03, 2008)
  MainConcept's Codec Hardware-Acceleration SDK, and H.264 and MPEG-2 Encoders Have Been Integrated Into the Ambric Am2045 GT Video Reference Platform
  
  
• Tensilica's New GUI Helps Cut Chip Energy Consumption (Monday Mar. 31, 2008)
  Tensilica today announced that it has added a new graphical user interface (GUI) to its Xenergy estimator, a unique energy estimator for both Xtensa configurable processors and Diamond Standard processors
  
  
• Express Logic and IAR Systems Team Up to Provide ThreadX RTOS Support in IAR Embedded Workbench IDE for Freescale ColdFire (Monday Mar. 31, 2008)
  Developers using ThreadX now can elect to use IAR Embedded Workbench IDE for their ColdFire software development tools.
  
  
• Virtutech Presents Simics 4.0, First Deterministic Multithreading VSD Platform (Monday Mar. 31, 2008)
  
  
  
• VaST and Tensilica to Deliver High-performance Models Supporting Electronics Virtualization for Consumer Electronics OEMs (Tuesday Mar. 25, 2008)
  VaST Systems and Tensilica today announced that models of Tensilica processors are now available from VaST Systems for the VaST CoMET System Engineering Environment
  
  
• Stretch and IntelliVision to Release Advanced Video Analytics on the Stretch S6000 Family of Software Configurable Processors (Monday Mar. 24, 2008)
  Stretch and IntelliVision Partnership Delivers the World's First Single Chip High Definition H.264 Encoding IP Camera Reference Design with Advanced Analytics and Intelligent Encoding
  
  
• Staccato Delivers Certified Wireless USB Native Device Development Kit (Monday Mar. 17, 2008)
  Staccato’s Ripcord1 DVK is a completely integrated development environment that accelerates native Wireless USB device designs based on the Ripcord1 family of single-chip, all-CMOS Certified Wireless USB solutions
  
  
• Tensilica Becomes First Processor IP Company to Support MPEG-4 AAC-LC and aacPlus Multi-Channel Decoders for 7.1 Surround Sound (Thursday Mar. 13, 2008)
  These multichannel decoders provide up to 7.1-channel surround sound for home entertainment devices. They are available now for the Tensilica HiFi 2 Audio Engine.
  
  
• CEVA and HuaXun Partner to Deliver Software GPS Solution for CEVA-X DSP Cores and MM2000 Multimedia Platform (Monday Mar. 10, 2008)
  Fully featured Software GPS solution allows CEVA licensees to add GPS functionality to existing cellular baseband and multimedia SoCs
  
  
• CEVA and NBICC Collaborate to Add China's AVS Video Standard to Portfolio of Audio/Video Codecs for CEVA's MM2000 Platform (Monday Mar. 10, 2008)
  CEVA's fully programmable, multi-standard multimedia platform now supports H.264, MPEG4, DivX, RealVideo, H.263, VC-1 and AVS video codecs
  
  
• Virtutech Announces Initiative to Further Advance Standards for Virtualized Software Development (Monday Mar. 10, 2008)
  Virtutech, Inc., the leader in Virtualized Software Development (VSD), today announced an initiative to accelerate the creation of standards for the VSD industry and to drive mainstream acceptance of VSD throughout the electronic systems business.
  
  
• Imperas Unleashes Open Source Initiative to Establish Common, Open Standard for Multicore SoC Design (Monday Mar. 03, 2008)
  The donation, representing approximately $4 million worth of technology investment, includes modeling technology, Imperas’ existing library of models, and OVPSim, a proven reference simulator. Imperas will support and manage the OVP website, and will contribute much of its innovation to keep this infrastructure evolving.
  
  
• BSQUARE Launches Hardware Development Platform with Windows CE Support for Texas Instruments' OMAP35x and OMAP25x Applications Processors (Thursday Feb. 28, 2008)
  The DevKit OMAP35x and DevKit OMAP2530 each include a production-ready Windows® Embedded CE 6.0 board support package (BSP), and is the only development platform available supporting OMAPTM processors running Windows CE
  
  
• Aurelia Microelettronica provides a Development Suite for SpaceWire Remote Terminal Controller (Wednesday Feb. 27, 2008)
  The SpaceWire Remote Terminal Controller (SpW RTC) is a bridge between the SpW network and the CAN bus, providing a fully integrated system.
  
  
• Nuvation Introduces Four Video Reference Designs Based on Texas Instruments' DaVinci Technology (Wednesday Feb. 27, 2008)
  New reference designs accelerate time-to-market for video security, video conferencing, and broadcast video applications.
  
  
• ARM Enhances Development Support for Texas Instruments' DaVinci Technology and OMAP35x Platform (Tuesday Feb. 26, 2008)
  Enhanced support in ARM RealView Development Suite 3.1 Professional significantly reduces initial development time and ensures optimal tools configuration for specific TI processors
  
  
• Arrow Electronics Announces the Worldwide Availability of ARM Development Kit for Altera Cyclone III (Tuesday Feb. 26, 2008)
  Now available beyond the United States and Europe and exclusively from Arrow, the kit provides all the tools and software to enable users to develop an embedded system based on the ARM Cortex-M1 processor and Altera Cyclone III field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
  
  
• Tundra Semiconductor Announces First End-to-End RapidIO Baseband Development Platform (Monday Feb. 25, 2008)
  The platform, offers end-to-end 10 Gigabit RapidIO Interconnect for chip-to-chip and board-to-board links across the backplane.
  
  
• Trango Hypervisor Virtualizes Atmel's CAP Customizable Microcontroller (Thursday Feb. 21, 2008)
  Atmel and Trango Virtual Processors, a leading provider of Embedded Virtualization IP, announced the availability of Trango's Hypervisor for users of Atmel's AT91CAP9 customizable microcontroller.
  
  
• ARM Leads The Mobile Market Into Console-Quality 3D Gaming (Wednesday Feb. 20, 2008)
  ARM expands its graphics stack with Mali-JSR297 software for graphics acceleration on a wide range of next-generation mobile devices
  
  
• Sonic Focus Makes its Revolutionary Audio Enhancement Technology Available on ARC Sound and ARC Sound Advanced Subsystems (Tuesday Feb. 12, 2008)
  Sonic Focus will port and optimize their audio post-processing algorithms and software to ARC’s audio platforms, which will be available for licensing directly by OEM companies worldwide.
  
  
• ARM and On2 Technologies Demonstrate The First High-Performance Video Codecs Optimized With ARM Neon Technology (Monday Feb. 11, 2008)
  By employing the SIMD media processing extensions to the ARM Cortex™-A series of processors, On2 has been able to significantly reduce the clock cycles needed and increase the playback performance of the most popular video formats used in mobile devices.
  
  
• ARM Announces RealView Development Suite Professional Tools For Mobile Applications (Monday Feb. 11, 2008)
  RealView Development Suite 3.1 Professional is designed to support the latest high-performance ARM processors, such as the Cortex™-A8 processor, and includes vectorizing compilation for the NEON™ media processing engine which can increase the performance of multimedia applications by more than 200 percent from standard C code.
  
  
• ARM Announces New Vector Graphics Products To Set The Standard For Next Generation Mobile User Interfaces (Monday Feb. 11, 2008)
  ARM today announced three new ARM® Mali™ 2D vector graphics software products based on open standards.