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• Renesas Technology Leads VoIP Semiconductor Market with Industry's First Nortel-Certified Reference Platform (Tuesday Sep. 20, 2005)
  The market-ready platform helps save time and costs for testing and validating consumer VoIP end-point devices
  
  
• Toshiba readies Cell processor design platform (Tuesday Sep. 20, 2005)
  Toshiba Corporation is readying a hardware development platform for applications based on the Cell processor that it co-developed with Sony and IBM
  
  
• picoChip and ARM Announce 90nm Next-Generation Wireless Chipsets (Tuesday Sep. 20, 2005)
  First ARM Powered, single-chip, software-defined solution for advanced WiMAX and WCDMA applications
  
  
• Industry's First M3G 1.1 Compliant, Java 3D Graphics Engine (Monday Sep. 19, 2005)
  Swerve Client Version 2.2, the industry’s first graphics engine to implement M3G 1.1, is now available for licensin
  
  
• Micro Digital Announces GoFast for Nios II (Thursday Sep. 15, 2005)
  GoFast is a family of high-performance, reentrant, floating-point libraries designed for embedded applications
  
  
• Accelerated Technology's Nucleus RTOS Supports ARM9-based Atmel AT91RM9200 for Secure Data Storage and Connected Communication Applications (Wednesday Sep. 14, 2005)
  Atmel's ARM-based AT91RM9200 microcontroller is a high-performance, system-on-chip (SoC) offering a flexible configuration of on- and off-chip memories together with an extensive set of peripherals for control, communication and data storage purposes.
  
  
• Trinity Convergence to Port its VoIP Solution to the MIPS32(R) 24KE(TM) Core Family (Tuesday Sep. 13, 2005)
  Alliance Adds Critical Voice over IP Applications to MIPS Technologies' Already Robust Software Ecosystem
  
  
• Certicom Launches Trusted Key Injection Platform for Anti-cloning (Monday Sep. 12, 2005)
  Certicom KeyInject enables device producers to monitor and control unique keying material for devices
  
  
• Accelerated Technology's Nucleus Products Offer Complete Support for Altera's Nios II Processors (Monday Sep. 12, 2005)
  The Nucleus software support for the Nios II processor includes the ability to automatically configure the Nucleus Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) software using Altera's Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL)
  
  
• Skyworks Launches Highly Integrated EDGE Multimedia Platform (Monday Sep. 12, 2005)
  Skyworks Launches Highly Integrated EDGE Multimedia Platform; 3-Chip Lynx(TM) System Solution Enables Broad Range of Next-Generation Handset Features While Reducing Board Space by 20 Percent
  
  
• Accelerated Technology's Nucleus EDGE Becomes the First Commercial Embedded Software Solution to Fully Support Xilinx FPGA Processors (Monday Sep. 12, 2005)
  Eclipse-powered Nucleus® EDGE software development environment is now available for the MicroBlaze™ 32-bit soft processor core and the PowerPC™ based processors from Xilinx®, Inc.
  
  
• New ARM API Reduces Development Time and Cost for Mobile and Consumer Security Applications (Wednesday Sep. 07, 2005)
  New ARM API Reduces Development Time and Cost for Mobile and Consumer Security Applications
  
  
• Express Logic and MIPS Technologies Bring ThreadX RTOS Support to the MIPS32 24K and 4KE Core Families (Tuesday Sep. 06, 2005)
  Royalty-free ThreadX RTOS now available for MIPS-Based™ consumer devices
  
  
• Renesas Technology Releases Middleware for MPEG-4 and H.264 Compatible Hardware Accelerator (Monday Sep. 05, 2005)
  Capable of 720 x 480 pixel size encoding/decoding at 30 fps, facilitating development of high-image-quality moving image recording/playback applications
  
  
• LSI Logic and Cabot Communications Collaborate to Bring Digital TV Set-Top Box Middleware to DVD Recorder Products (Monday Sep. 05, 2005)
  Cost-effective solution designed to provide faster time-to-market and optimized products for consumer electronics manufacturers
  
  
• Micronas Introduces Complete Software Stack for Digital STB Ready for Deployment (Friday Sep. 02, 2005)
  Fully integrated digital TV middleware jump-starts digital STB development
  
  
• Silicon & Software Systems (S3) announces successful integration of its DVB-H software with Philips' smartphone platform (Friday Sep. 02, 2005)
  Based on Philips Nexperia mobile platform, this solution demonstrates DVB-H/IPDC functionality from onHandTV™ tightly coupled with the advanced cellular capabilities of a high-end smartphone
  
  
• Atmel's ''Deterministic'' ARM7 MCUs Combine Ethernet, CAN, USB, Encryption With Support For Real-time Apps (Thursday Sep. 01, 2005)
  10 Mbps Serial Communication With Only 4% Raw Performance Loss, 20x Encryption/Decryption Speed
  
  
• MQX Embedded Announces Software Platform Availability for AMCC PowerPC 440EP Processor (Tuesday Aug. 30, 2005)
  MQX Embedded™ Software Development Tools, Real-Time Operating System and Communication Stacks Support Newest AMCC PowerPC® Processor for High-Performance Embedded Markets
  
  
• Thales unveils first serial rapid I/O Multiprocessor computer for embedded applications : PowerMP4-60 (Monday Aug. 29, 2005)
  The PowerMP4-60 system combines PowerPC and Pentium-M technology and takes advantage of outstanding compute power to power dissipation ratio of the PowerPC technology as well as the wide spectrum of software tools available on PC platforms
  
  
• Pixelworks and AMD Collaborate on Reference Platform Enabling Broadband Video, Voice and Data on 'Triple-Play' Set-top Boxes (Monday Aug. 29, 2005)
  New Sailfish(TM) II Platform Designed for IPTV, Internet Telephony and Broadband Network Router Applications
  
  
• Amino will Port Advanced Software Stack For IPTV Set-Top Boxes on Philips' Semiconductors Reference Design (Friday Aug. 26, 2005)
  Amino today announced that its advanced software stack for IPTV set-top boxes will be combined with Philips NexperiaTM home entertainment engine PNX8550 to be ported to the STB810 semiconductors reference and development platform for set top boxes
  
  
• Ittiam to Work With Microsoft on Developing Video Solutions for Next Generation Windows Mobile-based Portable Media Centers (Thursday Aug. 25, 2005)
  Ittiam's Windows Media Video 9 Decoder on Texas Instruments' Digital Media processor part of the Portable Media Centers Kit offered to OEMs
  
  
• Toshiba Develops High Performance Microprocessor Core (Thursday Aug. 18, 2005)
  'MeP-h1'is the World's First 1GHz Configurable Processor
  
  
• Atmel claims 20-fold ARM7TDMI MCU speed boost with DMA addition (Wednesday Aug. 17, 2005)
  In September, it will role out the first devices in its Smart ARM Microcontroller (SAM) family with the new PDC enhancement
  
  
• Accelerated Technology Adds Configurable Nucleus RTOS and Middleware Support for Altera's Nios II Processors (Tuesday Aug. 16, 2005)
  Embedded developers using the Nios II processors can now configure their software to better manage and build multi-core applications such as wireless broadband and Wi-Fi, cellular infrastructure, wire line, industrial control, automotive and medical
  
  
• New Development Platform from Empower Technologies(TM) for TI OMAP5910 Processor Reduces Design Time, Risk and Cost (Tuesday Aug. 09, 2005)
  LinuxDA for OMAP5910 Development Kit Enables Consumer Electronics Developers to Write Applications within One Hour of Setup
  
  
• Oki Semiconductor Incorporates Unique Features to Deliver Industry's Lowest Cost, Easy to Use ARM-based Evaluation Kit (Monday Aug. 08, 2005)
  New Fully-featured AME-51 Evaluation Kit allows designers to quickly evaluate Oki's 4050/4060 Series Advantage Microcontrollers
  
  
• ARC International Announces New MetaWare Development Toolkit with Enhanced Integrated Development Environment (Thursday Aug. 04, 2005)
  New Features Bring Greater Tool Interoperability and Software Development Efficiency to Configurable ARC™ Processors
  
  
• New Kits to KickStart Development Work on STMicroelectronics' 32-bit Microcontrollers (Thursday Aug. 04, 2005)
  Cost-sensitive, high-performance 32-bit applications using ST's new ARM-based microcontrollers will benefit from out-of-the-box evaluation and development capability from IAR Systems