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• NetSpeed Provides Support for ARM AMBA Protocol with Gemini 2.0 (Wednesday Nov. 11, 2015)
  NetSpeed's Gemini 2.0 coherent network-on-chip IP provides exhaustive support for the ARM® AMBA® protocols. Gemini includes optimizations for connecting the latest generation of ARM IP, including the ARM Cortex®-A72 processors, ARM Mali™ GPUs, and dynamic memory controllers such as the ARM CoreLink® DMC-520.
  
  
• ARMv8-M Architecture Simplifies Security for Smart Embedded Devices (Wednesday Nov. 11, 2015)
  ARM has driven security for devices based on ARM Cortex®-M processors into the hardware layer to ensure developers have a fast and efficient way of protecting any embedded or Internet of Things (IoT) device.
  
  
• New ARM Cortex-A35 Processor Extends the ARMv8-A Architecture Deeper Into Mobile and Embedded Markets (Wednesday Nov. 11, 2015)
  ARM announced today the ARM® Cortex®-A35 processor, a new standard-bearer for efficiency among 64-bit processors. The processor is the first CPU in a new family of ultra-high-efficiency ARMv8-A processors designed for high-growth mobile and embedded applications.
  
  
• Arteris Extends Support for ARM AMBA Protocols (Tuesday Nov. 10, 2015)
  Arteris Inc., supplier of silicon-proven commercial network-on-chip (NoC) interconnect IP solutions, today announced that it is expanding its support and integration of ARM® AMBA® protocol specifications.
  
  
• Sonics Supports ARM P-Channel Interface to Extend Commitment to AMBA Ecosystem (Tuesday Nov. 10, 2015)
  Sonics today announced that it is extending its support for the ARM® AMBA® ecosystem by implementing the P-Channel interface in the Sonics ICE-Grain™ Power Architecture. The strength of the AMBA ecosystem is that it enables companies like Sonics to offer interoperable, value-added technologies for the benefit of customers through open access to interface specifications.
  
  
• Cadence and ARM Deliver an IP Reference System for Internet of Things Applications (Tuesday Nov. 10, 2015)
  Cadence has announced a reference system jointly developed with ARM that is targeted at the Internet of Things (IoT) systems. This is the first product following the strategic IP Interoperability Agreement (IPIA) signed by Cadence® and ARM that allows the companies reciprocal access to relevant IP portfolios.
  
  
• MIPS CPUs continue to push boundaries from low to high end (Tuesday Nov. 10, 2015)
  Imagination Technologies (IMG.L) announces compelling new additions to its MIPS Warrior CPU product line, as its growing portfolio and unique roadmap gain momentum. The broadening range of highly efficient MIPS CPUs enables an increasing number of licensees, both existing and new, to choose solutions ideally matched to their differentiated feature set, performance and business goals.
  
  
• Avery, CAST, and Rianta Roll Together on Automotive Ethernet and CAN FD IP and VIP Solutions (Tuesday Nov. 10, 2015)
  Avery Design Systems Inc., an innovator in functional verification productivity solutions, Rianta Solutions, Inc., a Verification IP provider and System-on-Chip (SoC) integration specialist, and CAST, Inc., a semiconductor intellectual property (IP) provider, today announced they are combining their strengths to develop and deliver superior solutions for the design and verification of automotive networking systems.
  
  
• Mobiveil Announces Its New 16G PCIe Gen 4 Controller IP (GPEX) With End-to-End Data Path Protection for High-Performance Enterprise Applications (Tuesday Nov. 10, 2015)
  Mobiveil today announced a complete, fully-compliant controller for PCIe Gen 4 with end-to-end data path protection for high performance enterprise applications.
  
  
• Kilopass Announces Breakthrough Memory Technology for IoT Devices (Tuesday Nov. 10, 2015)
  Kilopass will unveil at ARM TechCon its new eNVM, the X2Bit™ bitcell, delivering 10X power reduction compared to currently available eNVM technologies.
  
  
• Allegro DVT Adds Support of 4:2:2 10-bit Video Profiles to its Multi-Format Encoder/Decoder Hardware IPs. (Wednesday Nov. 04, 2015)
  Allegro DVT, the leading provider of video codec hardware IPs and certification bitstreams, announces the availability of new versions of its multi-format video encoder and decoder IPs with additional video profiles that cover 4:2:2 chroma sampling and 10 bits per sample.
  
  
• Synopsys Introduces Enhanced Security Package for DesignWare ARC EM Processors (Wednesday Nov. 04, 2015)
  Synopsys today announced availability of the Enhanced Security Package, a new licensable option for DesignWare® ARC® EM Processors. This new ARC EM option enables designers to create an isolated, secure environment that protects their systems and software from evolving security threats such as IP theft and remote attacks.
  
  
• VISENGI Announces 8K30 capable H.264 Encoder on Zynq-7030 (Thursday Oct. 29, 2015)
  VISENGI unveiled on September 30th at Altera SoC Developer Forum in Santa Clara, California, the availability of the smallest 8K H.264 Encoder in the market, capable of delivering 8K 25 fps on the mid-range Altera Arria 10 FPGAs, and now an overwhelming 8K 30 fps on the small and low-cost Xilinx Zynq-7030 FPGA.
  
  
• Creonic to Provide Three LDPC Decoder IP Cores for DOCSIS 3.1 (Wednesday Oct. 28, 2015)
  Creonic revealed today the availability of three IP cores for the new DOCSIS 3.1 standard. DOCSIS 3.1 technology consists of the newest and first-rate of digital communication technologies such as LDPC coding with very high modulation orders (up to 4096-QAM) and more than 1 GHz of usable spectrum.
  
  
• New ARM CoreLink System IP Provides the Foundation for Next-Generation Heterogeneous SoCs (Tuesday Oct. 27, 2015)
  ARM announced new ARM® CoreLink™ system IP designed to enhance system performance and efficiency in next-generation premium mobile devices. The CoreLink CCI-550 interconnect enables ARM big.LITTLE™ processing and a fully coherent GPU while lowering latency and increasing peak throughput.
  
  
• Dolphin Integration launches a new Capless Regulator dedicated to low-power operation required by IoT applications (Monday Oct. 26, 2015)
  Dolphin Integration is pleased to announce the launch of its ultra-low quiescent-current linear regulator dedicated to supplying Always-on power domains.
  
  
• OmniPhy Announces Automotive Ethernet Silicon IP (Monday Oct. 26, 2015)
  OmniPhy today announced the availability of a silicon-proven automotive Ethernet PHY on an advanced process technology node. The design implements the automotive Ethernet 100Base-T1 standard spearheaded by the I.E.E.E. through 802.3 initiatives.
  
  
• Synopsys Demonstrates Industry's First MIPI D-PHY IP Operating at 2.5 Gbps per Lane on TSMC 16-nm FinFET Plus Process (Wednesday Oct. 21, 2015)
  Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS) today announced the industry's first demonstration of MIPI® D-PHY IP on TSMC's 16-nanometer (nm) FinFET Plus (16FF+) process operating at 2.5 Gbps per lane. The demonstration shows the DesignWare® D-PHY receiver (Rx) lane connected to Keysight Technologies' test equipment, which provided burst-mode stimulus for stressed eye testing and the transmitter (Tx) lane connected to the Keysight oscilloscope displaying the transmitter's performance.
  
  
• CEVA Announces Silicon-based Platform to Streamline Development of Low-Power 'Smart and Connected' Devices (Wednesday Oct. 21, 2015)
  Highly integrated CEVA-TeakLite-4 DSP platform combines multiple sensing, processing and connectivity technologies enabling rapid system prototyping for mobile, wearable and smarthome SoC designs
  
  
• Cadence Announces the First IP Subsystem with Integrated USB Type-C, USB Power Delivery and DisplayPort Alternate Mode Support (Tuesday Oct. 20, 2015)
  Cadence today announced that it now offers the industry’s first IP subsystem with pre-verified components including a single-chip port controller IP that integrates USB Type-C™, USB Power Delivery and DisplayPort™ Alternate Mode (Alt Mode).
  
  
• ARM Mali-470 GPU Offers Improved Efficiency and Experiences on Wearable and IoT Devices (Tuesday Oct. 20, 2015)
  ARM has released a new highly-efficient graphics processing unit (GPU) to enable smartphone-quality visuals on wearable and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The ARM® Mali™-470 GPU delivers an enhanced user interface for power-constrained products, including smart watches, home gateways and appliances, industrial control panels and healthcare monitors. It is available for immediate licensing, with the first Mali-470 enabled devices expected in late 2016.
  
  
• Moortec Semiconductor Announces New UMC 28nm HPC High Accuracy Embedded Temperature Sensor (Tuesday Oct. 20, 2015)
  Moortec announces its new High Accuracy Embedded Temperature Sensor targeting UMC’s advanced node 28nm HPC CMOS technology. This latest addition to the temperature sensor range extends Moortec's position as the leading provider of embedded thermal sensors and on-chip monitoring IP to semiconductor customers worldwide.
  
  
• ARM Offers Free Access to Cortex-M0 Processor IP to Streamline Embedded SoC Design (Tuesday Oct. 13, 2015)
  ARM® DesignStart™portal now offers SoC designers free ARM Cortex®-M0 processor IP for design, simulation and prototyping, and a low-cost simplified licensing package for commercialization.
  
  
• Imagination rolls out complete Ensigma connectivity IP solutions from baseband to RF (Monday Oct. 12, 2015)
  Imagination Technologies announces that it is offering complete Ensigma connectivity IP system solutions including Wi-Fi/Bluetooth software, media access control (MAC) layer, baseband, analog front end (AFE) and RF, through a range of flexible licensing and support models.
  
  
• Intilop releases a Full TCP & UDP Host-Side Application interface for Altera and Xilinx FPGAs for Software's use that is implemented in Low latency hardware (Monday Oct. 12, 2015)
  Intilop delivers another subsystem with functions handled by Host side TCP/UDP software for integration with their applications.
  
  
• Arasan Chip Systems Announces the Industry's First UFS 2.1 IP Solutions (Thursday Oct. 08, 2015)
  Arasan announces availability of UFS 2.1 Host Controller IP core supporting a maximum throughput of 5.8 Gbps with M-PHY HS-G3 single lane, or 11.6 Gbps with M-PHY HS-Gear 3 2-lane operation, meeting the greater data transfer rates and lower power requirements of advanced mobile applications such as smartphone and tablets.
  
  
• Soft Machines Unveils VISC Processor and SoC Roadmap (Thursday Oct. 08, 2015)
  The world’s first VISC processor, Shasta, will deliver unprecedented performance efficiency levels. Soft Machines also disclosed the highly scalable Mojave VISC SoC platform, which can be customized for smart mobile to server applications. Both Shasta and Mojave will be released in 2016.
  
  
• CEVA Introduces Deep Neural Network Framework to Accelerate Machine Learning Deployment in Low-Power Embedded Systems (Wednesday Oct. 07, 2015)
  CEVA has today introduced the CEVA Deep Neural Network (CDNN), a real-time neural network software framework, to streamline machine learning deployment in low-power embedded systems.
  
  
• New Cadence Tensilica Vision P5 DSP Enables 4K Mobile Imaging with 13X Performance Boost and 5X Lower Energy (Tuesday Oct. 06, 2015)
  Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced the new Cadence® Tensilica® Vision P5 digital signal processor (DSP), its flagship high-performance vision/imaging DSP core. This imaging and vision DSP core offers up to 13X performance boost, with an average of 5X less energy usage on vision tasks compared to the previous generation IVP-EP imaging and video DSP.
  
  
• NetSpeed Introduces the industry's first fully configurable cache-coherent network-on-chip (Tuesday Oct. 06, 2015)
  NetSpeed Systems Inc., the supplier of on-chip network IP that is streamlining SoC design, announced the release of its Gemini 2.0 product, the industry’s first fully configurable cache-coherent network-on-chip IP.