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• MIPS Technologies' Multi-threading and DSP Solutions Supported by Green Hills Software's Development Tools (Tuesday Apr. 04, 2006)
  MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIPS), and Green Hills Software, Inc., today announced that Green Hills Software's comprehensive set of software development tools for embedded applications supports the latest MIPS® processor cores: the MIPS32® 34K™ famil
  
  
• Texas Instruments and ARM Accelerate Deployment of Secure Applications on Mobile Devices (Tuesday Apr. 04, 2006)
  Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) and ARM today announced a collaboration to provide a unified mobile security technology to the industry, enabling mobile security market applications and services with a standard-based, interoperable, extensible framewo
  
  
• ARM Launches RealView Development Suite 3.0 for End-to-End Pre-Silicon Development (Monday Apr. 03, 2006)
  With this release, ARM has created an integrated, end-to-end toolchain for true hardware/software co-development, optimized for the SoC features most requested by embedded systems developers.
  
  
• New 32-bitters go to extremes for embedded (Monday Apr. 03, 2006)
  With 32-bit processors now the CPU of choice for more than half of all new embedded system designs, two companies have bracketed the category with their own offerings. One is an extremely low-cost 32-bit microcontroller family from Luminary Micro Inc.; th
  
  
• AVR32-based SoC Offers High Throughput Solution for Compute-intensive Embedded Control Applications; Combines Two Ethernet MACs, 480 Mbps USB with On-chip PHY, LCD Controller with High throughput CPU, Dynamic Frequency Scaling (Monday Apr. 03, 2006)
  Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) today announced the AP7000 family of high-performance 32-bit digital signal controllers, the first family based on the company's high-throughput AVR®32 core announced last February. The AVR32 core consistently outperforms
  
  
• ARM RealView Microcontroller Development Kit Supports New Luminary Micro Stellaris Family Of Microcontrollers (Tuesday Mar. 28, 2006)
  ARM today announced that its RealView® Microcontroller Development Kit provides full support for the new Luminary Micro Stellaris™ family of microcontrollers
  
  
• ARM RealView Microcontroller Development Kit Supports New Luminary Micro Stellaris Family Of Microcontrollers (Monday Mar. 27, 2006)
  ARM today announced that its RealView® Microcontroller Development Kit provides full support for the new Luminary Micro Stellaris™ family of microcontrollers
  
  
• Luminary Micro Announces 32-bit Microcontrollers for $1.00 - First to Launch Products Based on the ARM Cortex-M3 Processor (Monday Mar. 27, 2006)
  Luminary Micro Announces 32-bit Microcontrollers for $1.00 - First to Launch Products Based on the ARM Cortex-M3 Processor
  
  
• Express Logic's New ThreadX/MT Delivers Higher Performance and Lower Power for the MIPS32 34K Multi-threaded Processor Cores (Tuesday Mar. 21, 2006)
  ThreadX/MT is the first RTOS that enables applications to use hardware multi-threading easily and efficiently
  
  
• ZSP Expands VoIP Solutions with Z.Voice Soc Sub-System and VoWiFi with AEC (Wednesday Mar. 15, 2006)
  The ZSP® business unit of LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced the addition of the Z.VoiceTM System-on-Chip (SoC) Voice-over-IP (VoIP) licensable sub-system and Z.Voice-VoWiFi to its portfolio of VoIP solutions
  
  
• Tensilica Offers Free Diamond Core Software Development and Modeling Tools (Tuesday Mar. 14, 2006)
  Tensilica, Inc. today announced immediate availability of free evaluation versions of the Diamond Standard Software Toolkit, the advanced software development and modeling environment for the Diamond Standard processor core family, which was announced on
  
  
• D2 Technologies VPORT VoIP software and MIPS32 34kc Processor core double VoIP performance (Tuesday Mar. 14, 2006)
  D2 Technologies announced today that its vPort™ VoIP software has been enhanced with multi-threading features. Used in conjunction with MIPS Technologies’ new multi-threaded MIPS32® 34Kc™ processor core with DSP extensions, this solution increases VoIP ch
  
  
• Accelerated Technology's Nucleus RTOS is the First to Support Tensilica's Six New Diamond Standard Processor Cores (Tuesday Mar. 07, 2006)
  Accelerated Technology®, a Mentor Graphics division (Nasdaq: MENT), today announced that the Nucleus® Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) is the first to support all six of Tensilica's new Diamond Standard processor cores. This support provides embedded dev
  
  
• Socle ARM SoC Platform Provides All-In-One Audio & Video Solution (Tuesday Mar. 07, 2006)
  Socle, the leading provider of SoC design services and platform solutions, just finished the development of CPU (ARM926EJ) embedded Audio Voice Function using MP3/AAC audio playing format. Combining with Socle MPEG4 SoC platform, it can provide the best S
  
  
• BroadMotion JPEG2000 Codecs Available on a Combined TI DSP and Altera FPGA Platform (Thursday Mar. 02, 2006)
  JPEG2000 support available on the Altera Cyclone™ II and TI TMS320DM64x™ DSP
  
  
• Sentivision Announces Availability of the SV-300 IP-STB Based on DaVinci(TM) Technology from Texas Instruments (Wednesday Mar. 01, 2006)
  Built on DaVinci(TM) technology from Texas Instruments, the SV-300 delivers superb video and audio quality by utilizing the H.264 AVC compression standard for video stream decoding.
  
  
• Green Hills Software Announces New Development Tools and Operating System for Texas Instruments' DaVinci Technology (Tuesday Feb. 28, 2006)
  Green Hills Single Integrated Development Environment Enables Rapid Design Implementation
  
  
• Mercury Computer Systems and Texas Instruments Announce a WiMAX AMC for Next-Generation Mobile Broadband Market (Monday Feb. 27, 2006)
  Mercury's MTI-203 WiMAX AMC is Designed with TI's Latest Wireless Infrastructure DSP WiMAX Solution to Support 20 MHz Multi-Antenna Solution on a Single AMC Module
  
  
• Sharp Microelectronics and Actimagine Collaborate to Boost SoC Video Capabilities (Wednesday Feb. 22, 2006)
  Video decompression rates increase fourfold with same power use
  
  
• Sharp Microelectronics and Actimagine Collaborate to Boost SoC Video Capabilities; Video Decompression Rates Increase Fourfold with Same Power Use (Tuesday Feb. 14, 2006)
  Sharp Microelectronics of the Americas announces its collaboration with software developer Actimagine to increase video performance for its ARM7- and ARM9-based portfolio of BlueStreak(TM) microcontrollers. By incorporating an innovative codec developed b
  
  
• ARM Announces Availability of Mobile Consumer DRM Software Solutions Based on ARM TrustZoneTechnology (Tuesday Feb. 14, 2006)
  The TrustZone Software API provides a common framework for secure application and device developers, reducing porting costs and enabling greater compatibility across multiple platforms.This extends Philips’ and Obigo’s leading-edge security and media cont
  
  
• S3 collaborates with Hantro to demonstrate DVB-H software evaluation platform (Tuesday Feb. 14, 2006)
  S3 and Hantro's collaboration addresses handset manufacturers' current dependency on DVB-H hardware. In this platform CBMS compliant streams are delivered to the handhelds over either a standard WiFi or DVB-H air interface. The optional use of WiFi facili
  
  
• Expway and Hantro to integrate their solutions for DVB-H and Smartphones Devices (Tuesday Feb. 14, 2006)
  Companies to combine strengths in DVB-H by bundling EXPWAY Electronic Service Guide and HANTRO mobile TV player
  
  
• Falanx Microsystems Demonstrates First H.264 Hardware Implementation for Mobile Devices at 3GSM (Monday Feb. 13, 2006)
  Falanx Teams With Flextronics Software Systems to Deliver Complete Hardware-Accelerated Codec Capable of Delivering 30fps H.264 Video for Mobile Phones
  
  
• NTT DoCoMo, Renesas, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi Electric and Sharp to Jointly Develop Platform for W-CDMA Handsets (Monday Feb. 13, 2006)
  A comprehensive platform combining a single-chip LSI that consists of a baseband processor and an application processor together with core software such as OS
  
  
• SRS WOW XT and SRS XSPACE 3D Now Available on Tensilica's Xtensa HiFi 2 Audio Engine for Mobile Phones (Monday Feb. 13, 2006)
  Companies To Demonstrate the Technologies at 3GSM Conference in Barcelona, Spain
  
  
• Iwedia & Silembia to unveil a DVB-H client-side solution, hardware & software, at 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, 13th to 16th of February (Monday Feb. 13, 2006)
  Silembia and Iwedia partners to create Virtual System Solution for DVB-H
  
  
• TIVR and Streamezzo bring ready-to-deploy optimized embedded Mobile TV solutions (Saturday Feb. 11, 2006)
  TIVR and Streamezzo, respectively an innovative and efficient embedded software provider for mobile multimedia and a leading software provider of Rich Media and Interactive mobile solutions, today announced a joint development of a Mobile TV delivery solu
  
  
• HiTech Announces the Worldwide Availability of PLDA's Altera Stratix-II based PCI-X evaluation boards (Wednesday Feb. 08, 2006)
  The PCIXSYS2 platforms are powered by Altera’s Stratix-II EP2S60, EP2S90, EP2S130, or EP2S180. The combination of these high performance devices with PLDA’s PCI-X and PCI IP cores makes the PCIXSYS2 platforms ideal for data acquisition, ASIC/FPGA prototy
  
  
• Oki Semiconductor and IAR Systems Announce Availability of New IAR Embedded Workbench Tools for Oki’s ARM9-based Advantage Microcontrollers (Monday Feb. 06, 2006)
  IAR Systems’ Embedded Workbench® for ARM helps designers to easily develop reliable code for Oki’s ARM9®-based ML696200 Series MCUs