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• TI delivers first single-chip DSP coupling math and logic functions for beyond 3G cellular infrastructure applications (Monday Feb. 04, 2008)
  First baseband processor supporting MAC and PHY functions on a single chip can eliminate RISC co-processors in many high performance applications
  
  
• Wind River and Cavium Networks Partner to Develop Advanced Multicore Device Debugging Solution (Tuesday Jan. 29, 2008)
  The solution couples Wind River’s Workbench On-Chip Debugging and Wind River Compiler with Cavium Networks OCTEON multicore processors, providing customers with a simplified development environment encompassing a complete development ecosystem, on-chip debugging tools, compilers, support and knowledge.
  
  
• TPACK Introduces SOFTSILICON a Standard Chip with Built-in flexibility Ideal for Packet Transport Applications (Monday Jan. 28, 2008)
  SOFTSILICON is provided as a standard chip solution similar to Application Specific Standard Products (ASSPs) with a comprehensive feature list targeting a specific application, such as Carrier Class packet switching and traffic management or packet mapping.
  
  
• Product Announcement: ARM RealView Platform Baseboard for ARM1176JZF-S Processor (Thursday Jan. 24, 2008)
  The Platform Baseboard for the ARM1176JZF-S processor features a Development Chip including the ARM1176JZF-S processor and all the performance critical components of a standard ASIC, such as LCD controller and dynamic and static memory controllers.
  
  
• Tensilica Adds Support for High-Speed, Hardware-Based Processor Simulations Using Avnet’s Xilinx Virtex-4 LX200 Development Kit (Tuesday Jan. 22, 2008)
  Tensilica today announced that it has added support for Avnet’s Xilinx Virtex-4 LX200 Development Kit for high-speed hardware-based simulations of its Xtensa® configurable and Diamond Standard processor families.
  
  
• ARM Announces New RealView Trace Capture Unit (Tuesday Jan. 22, 2008)
  ARM today announced the availability of the new RealView® Trace 2 capture unit for use with the RealView ICE unit and new version 3.2 software release
  
  
• Trango Virtual Processors Provides Embedded Virtualization Technology For Cavium OCTEON Processors (Tuesday Jan. 22, 2008)
  TRANGO Virtual Processors announced today that they are providing their feature-rich embedded virtualization technology for Cavium Networks' OCTEON Multi-core MIPS64 processor family.
  
  
• CoSy Compiler for 96-Core Multi-Threaded Array Processor (Thursday Jan. 17, 2008)
  ClearSpeed Technology uses ACE's CoSy technology in the development of its parallelizing software compiler
  
  
• IMEC Speeds Up Scalable Video Decoder (SVC) by a Factor of 20 (Tuesday Jan. 15, 2008)
  IMEC has further improved its source-code for standard-compliant Scalable Video Decoding (SVC = H.264 extension), now performing 20 times faster and using only a tenth of the memory footprint compared to the SVC standard reference code.
  
  
• ARC Video Subsystem Family Now Supports Popular RealVideo Format, Extending ARC's Multi-Standard Advantage (Thursday Jan. 10, 2008)
  The new decoder supports RealVideo content encoded in versions 7, 8, 9 or 10 formats. In comparison, the next best competitive solution required 75 percent more cycles than a member of the ARC Video Subsystem family to decode similar RealVideo bit streams.
  
  
• MindTree Consulting and Analog Devices Deliver Next Generation DVR product platform for Video Surveillance based on the Blackfin Processor (Wednesday Jan. 09, 2008)
  MindTree Consulting and Analog Devices (ADI) today announced the availability of a DVR product platform based on Analog Devices’ Blackfin processor. By leveraging the performance, flexibility and scalability of Blackfin, MindTree delivers a licensable DVR platform designed specifically for the surveillance market, enabling customers to get their products to market faster
  
  
• HD-AAC by Fraunhofer IIS - New MPEG Audio Codec Makes CD Collections Obsolete (Wednesday Jan. 09, 2008)
  Offering music encoding with quality beyond CDs and at the same time, iPod(R) compatibility, the HD-AAC(R) codec enables a new way of storing and distributing music. Based on the MPEG-4 SLS standard, Fraunhofer's HD-AAC provides future-proof, lossless compression of 24-bit quality music content.
  
  
• Product Announcement: ARM RealView Logic Tile for the Xilinx Virtex-5 XC5VLX330 FPGA (Thursday Dec. 20, 2007)
  ARM today announced the RealView® Logic Tile for the Xilinx Virtex-5 XC5VLX330 FPGA. This development board is designed to Expand the ARM® processor subsystems provided on RealView Hardware Platforms with custom memory and peripheral designs on FPGAs, to provide early access to FPGA implementations of the latest ARM processors
  
  
• Tensilica Adds Dolby Digital Consumer Encoder and Dolby Digital Compatible Output 5.1-Channel Encoders to Xtensa HiFi 2 Audio Engine Codec Library (Tuesday Dec. 18, 2007)
  Tensilica today announced that it has added the Dolby Digital Consumer Encoder (DDCE) and Dolby Digital Compatible Output (DDCO) 5.1-channel encoders to its audio codec library for the Xtensa HiFi 2 Audio Engine.
  
  
• Wind River Enhances On-Chip Debugging Solutions to Address Growing Complexities in Mobile and Handheld Device Development (Wednesday Dec. 12, 2007)
  Wind River Workbench 3.0, On-Chip Debugging Delivers New Enhancements and Greater Processor Support With Leading Linux Debugging to Shorten Design Cycles and Get Mobile Products to Market Faster
  
  
• Tensilica Enhances Xtensa Configurable Processor Families with New Options, Bridges and Software Tools (Monday Dec. 10, 2007)
  Tensilica, Inc. today announced that that it has upgraded its two Xtensa® configurable processor families (the Xtensa 7 and Xtensa LX2) with new hardware options and software tool enhancements that make it appeal to an even wider audience of SOC (system-on-chip) designers.
  
  
• Tensilica Offers Integrated Real-Time Trace Support to Xtensa Configurable and Diamond Standard Processor Cores (Monday Dec. 10, 2007)
  Tensilica’s TRAX-PC processor trace capture macrocell is Nexus 5001 compatible and ideal for debugging complex, challenging real-time applications such as engine and motor control. Software control and use of the on-chip TRAX hardware is fully integrated into Tensilica’s Xplorer integrated design environment (IDE) so software engineers can easily develop and debug programs while using the TRAX-PC trace macrocell.
  
  
• Microtronix Enhances 1080p Display Quality With Altera Cyclone III FPGA-Based Development Kit (Wednesday Dec. 05, 2007)
  Developed in cooperation with Altera, the ViClaro III HD Panel Display Interface - Video IP Development Kit helps high-definition (HD) video display designers proficiently build highly integrated, next generation HD 1080p, 100/120-Hz frame rate conversion television sets or panel display systems.
  
  
• ARM and Esterel to Deliver Software Development Tools for Safety-Critical Systems (Tuesday Dec. 04, 2007)
  ARM and Esterel Technologies, a leader of model-based design and verification tools for critical embedded systems, today announced their collaboration on a toolchain for safety-critical systems requiring IEC 61508 certification
  
  
• Express Logic Introduces ThreadX RTOS Support for Tensilica's New Diamond Standard 106Micro (Monday Dec. 03, 2007)
  ThreadX is Express Logic’s small, fast, royalty-free RTOS for demanding real-time applications. Its royalty-free business model makes ThreadX extremely attractive for high-volume devices.
  
  
• On2 Technologies and Texas Instruments Collaborate on Video Devices Providing Optimized Codec Performance (Monday Nov. 26, 2007)
  On2 Technologies announced today an extensive agreement with Texas Instruments (TI), under which the two companies will collaborate on technology to implement On2’s industry leading TrueMotion® VP6™ and VP7™ video compression formats on TI’s industry leading OMAP™ Platform and DaVinci™ technology for mobile handsets and digital video applications.
  
  
• Product Announcement: RealView Platform Baseboard for ARM11 MPCore Multiprocessor Available (Wednesday Nov. 21, 2007)
  The Platform Baseboard for the ARM11 MPCore multiprocessor is especially designed for symmetric multiprocessing applications development at near real time speed. It consists of a test chip ASIC containing four ARM11 MPCore multiprocessors and Level2 cache running at 200 Megahertz, and a memory system on a structured ASIC containing all the speed critical peripherals commonly seen in embedded systems running at 100 Megahertz.
  
  
• ARC Announces The IP Industry's Lowest Power MP3 Solution and Embedded Linux for Home Media Servers and Converged Mobile Handsets (Tuesday Nov. 20, 2007)
  ARC International today announced an optimized MP3 decoder for its ARC® Sound Subsystem operating at under 7 MHz and dissipating less than 0.46 mW of power in a TSMC 90 G process.
  
  
• CEVA and ROHM Partner for Bluetooth 2.0+EDR Reference Design Platform (Monday Nov. 19, 2007)
  Addressing the burgeoning Bluetooth market, the combined reference design integrates ROHM's 2.0+EDR Radio with CEVA's Bluetooth 2.0+EDR baseband and protocol stack IP for a high-performance, low-power Bluetooth 2.0+EDR platform.
  
  
• Zilog(R) Integrates Real-Time Virtualization(TM) Technology From VirtualLogix(TM) to Create Potent 32-Bit Security Solution for Point-Of-Sale Market (Thursday Nov. 15, 2007)
  Zilog today unveiled two new developments that significantly advance security and performance for makers of point-of-sale (POS) payment systems
  
  
• ARC Rides Embedded Linux Wave into Home Media Servers and Converged Mobile Handsets (Thursday Nov. 15, 2007)
  ARC International today announced a new business model for open source software used on its lines of configurable CPU cores and multimedia subsystems. ARC is optimizing, delivering, and directly supporting versions of Embedded Linux 2.6, and GNU tools based on GCC 4.2 and future versions.
  
  
• First Fully Programmable High Definition H.264 Video Solution Demonstrated by AllGo Systems and Silicon Hive (Wednesday Nov. 14, 2007)
  The solution targeting high definition (HD) video signal processing SoC manufacturers builds on Silicon Hive’s HiveFlex 2500 processor and AllGo’s optimized H.264 codec software. This is the first truly programmable IP solution that is able to service the demands of high definition resolutions at 1080p while maintaining competitive area, power, and code size.
  
  
• DTS Audio Technologies for Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD to be Added to Tensilica's HiFi 2 Audio Engine (Tuesday Nov. 13, 2007)
  Tensilica DTS today announced that the two companies have entered into an agreement for Tensilica to provide leading-edge DTS technologies for both Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD and other high end consumer audio applications with Tensilica’s HiFi 2 Audio Engine, the most popular commercial audio DSP core for system-on-chip (SOC) designs.
  
  
• Pentek's New Digital Transceiver with Multiband DDC Core and Interpolation Filter Supports all Communication Bandwidths (Friday Nov. 09, 2007)
  A complete software radio system in a COTS PMC/XMC module, this latest offering from Pentek is a combination of proven hardware and a new GateFlow® IP core. The Model 7142-428 employs four A/D converters and one D/A converter capable of bandwidths exceeding 40 MHz for connection to HF and IF ports in communications or radar systems.
  
  
• ARM Gives Thumbs Up For On2's Video Codec Solutions (Wednesday Nov. 07, 2007)
  Following the recent acquisition of Hantro, On2 Technologies, Inc. has made an immediate impact in the mobile device market by providing a quantum leap in performance of their market leading codecs running on the ARM architecture.