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• Xylon's MPSoC Multi-Camera Vision Kit Updated (Monday May. 11, 2020)
  Xylon now offers an updated hardware/software development kit that provides designers with time and cost saving design tools to quickly implement embedded multi-camera systems for ADAS/AD, machine vision, AR/VR, guided robotics, drones and other vision applications.
  
  
• Veridify Security's DOME Client Library Achieves PSA Certified Level 1 Accreditation (Wednesday May. 06, 2020)
  Veridify Security Inc. announced today that its DOME Client, running on the STMicroelectronics’ PSA Certified STM32L5 MCU and leveraging the PSA Functional Cryptography API, has achieved PSA Certified Level 1 security certification.
  
  
• Imagination supports Google Android GPU Inspector (Thursday Apr. 30, 2020)
  Imagination Technologies announces that it is supporting Google Android Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Inspector to help developers profile and debug graphics on Android, regardless of the device, using a single tool.
  
  
• Imagination showcases groundbreaking new safety-critical driver (Wednesday Apr. 29, 2020)
  Imagination Technologies new OpenGL® SC (Safety-Critical) 2.0 driver development for its automotive graphics processing units (GPUs) enables automotive OEMs and Tier 1s to benefit from GPU acceleration in safety-critical applications.
  
  
• NXP Announces General Availability of the Arm Cortex-M33-based LPC551x/S1x MCU Family (Wednesday Apr. 29, 2020)
  NXP Semiconductors today announced the availability of its LPC551x/S1x microcontroller (MCU) family – further extending its performance-efficient LPC5500 MCU series.
  
  
• Codasip Releases Support Package for Western Digital's First RISC-V SweRV Core (Thursday Apr. 23, 2020)
  Codasip GmbH, the leading supplier of configurable RISC-V® embedded processor IP, announced today the official release of its new product, the Codasip SweRV Core EH1 Support Package, which includes a free basic version.
  
  
• Renesas Releases Major Update of Flexible Software Package Supporting RA Family of 32-Bit Arm Cortex-M Microcontrollers (Thursday Apr. 23, 2020)
  Renesas Electronics today announced the release of a new update of its Flexible Software Package (FSP) for the Renesas RA Family of 32-Bit Arm® Cortex®-M microcontrollers (MCUs).
  
  
• Arm enables global IoT proliferation through Pelion IoT platform ecosystem expansion (Wednesday Apr. 15, 2020)
  According to the 2020 Economist IoT Business Index study, nearly one-third of external IoT projects remain in the early implementation phase. While this is a vast improvement compared to previous years (only 14% in 2017), there is still much work to be done.
  
  
• Xylon Expands Its Offer of FMC Expansion Boards Featuring High-Speed Serial Links for FPGA Based Multi-Camera Automotive Application Development (Tuesday Apr. 14, 2020)
  Xylon’s FMC expansion boards provide the most popular automotive high-speed serial links to enable easy interfacing of up to twelve video cameras to Xilinx FPGA and SoC based video and vision processors for multi-camera Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) and Autonomous Driving (AD)
  
  
• SEGGER announces comprehensive support for SiFive Insight debug/trace platform (Wednesday Apr. 01, 2020)
  SEGGER continues to strengthen its position in relation to the RISC-V instruction set architecture. The company’s products are already fully compatible with SiFive’s RISC-V processor cores, and now its J-Link probes deliver support for the new SiFive Insight debug/trace solution.
  
  
• Enea and Ampere Partner on Arm-based uCPE Solution for Telco Edge (Tuesday Mar. 24, 2020)
  Enea® today announced a partnership with Ampere Computing to develop an innovative Arm® based universal Customer Premise Equipment (uCPE) platform for telco and edge applications.
  
  
• Blu Wireless announces the availability of its 60GHz mmWave evaluation kit (Wednesday Mar. 18, 2020)
  Innovative Bristol-based technology company, Blu Wireless, have proudly announced the availability of its multi-gigabit high-speed wireless evaluation kit.
  
  
• SiFive Launches Advanced Trace and Debug Portfolio, SiFive Insight (Tuesday Mar. 17, 2020)
  SiFive today announced SiFive Insight, a technology portfolio that enables faster silicon bring-up, software/hardware integration, and application development through hardware trace and debug.
  
  
• Dover Microsystems and Cadence Partner to Deliver Secure Processing with Silicon-Layer Security for Mission-Critical Applications (Monday Mar. 09, 2020)
  Cadence and Dover Microsystems today announced a partnership to deliver a solution that enables the development of secure processing for aerospace and defense applications, providing enforcement-level security that protects against the exploitation of software vulnerabilities.
  
  
• Ampere Altra - Industry's First 80-Core Server Processor Unveiled (Tuesday Mar. 03, 2020)
  Ampere™ announced today that it has begun shipping the Ampere Altra™ processor, the industry’s first 80-core server CPU and the first cloud native CPU for modern cloud and edge computing data centers.
  
  
• Fraunhofer IIS brings comprehensive MPEG audio codec suite to NXP Semiconductors (Monday Mar. 02, 2020)
  Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, inventor of mp3 and primary developer of the xHE-AAC and MPEG-H Audio standards, announced that NXP® Semiconductors will leverage Fraunhofer’s MPEG audio SDK. This software package covers four generations of audio codecs: legacy MPEG Layer-1/2/3 as well as the next-generation MPEG-H 3D Audio standard and the AAC codec family, including xHE-AAC.
  
  
• PRO DESIGN Launches New proFPGA XCVU37P FPGA Module for Prototyping and Verification of High Bandwidth Memory Designs (Thursday Feb. 27, 2020)
  This new FPGA module, assembled with a Xilinx® Virtex® UltraScale+™ XCVU37P FPGA including High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), addresses ASIC designers who need an extremely efficient and best-performing FPGA-based prototyping solution for AI, Deep Learning, Data Centre, image/video analysis and other bandwidth-intensive applications.
  
  
• VeriSilicon and MicroEJ Join Forces to Accelerate Hardware IP Innovation, Thanks to Software Virtualization Leveraging 10 Million Software Engineers Worldwide (Wednesday Feb. 26, 2020)
  Together, the two partners make it possible to run legacy complex software on new integrated VeriSilicon IPs based hardware, thanks to complete secure virtualization provided by MicroEJ Virtual Execution Environment (VEE).
  
  
• Hex Five Announces MultiZone Security for Arm Cortex-M Series Processors (Monday Feb. 24, 2020)
  Hex Five Security announces the general availability of MultiZone® Security for members of the Arm® Cortex®‑M processor family: a quick and safe way to add security and separation to Cortex‑M devices.
  
  
• Imperas announce first reference model with UVM encapsulation for RISC-V verification (Monday Feb. 24, 2020)
  Imperas RISC-V reference models now available with SystemVerilog UVM side-by-side step and compare verification testbenches for RTL processor cores in leading commercial Design Verification (DV) environments
  
  
• Bluespec's RISC-V Factory Proves Its Dependable Productization, Helping Calligo Technologies Harness RISC-V for Posit-enabled Computing (Thursday Feb. 20, 2020)
  Bluespec, Inc. is proud to be helping the cutting-edge computing and data storage company Calligo Technologies to leverage RISC-V. A Bangalore-based company serving high-performance computing, big data and AI markets around the world, Calligo Technologies has received critical support from Bluespec as they build new solutions with RISC-V.
  
  
• BrainChip's Akida Development Environment Now Freely Available for Use (Wednesday Feb. 12, 2020)
  BrainChip today announced that access to its Akida™ Development Environment (ADE) no longer requires pre-approval, now allowing designers to freely develop systems for edge and enterprise products on the company's Akida Neural Processing technology.
  
  
• SEGGER releases Floating-Point Library for RISC-V (Monday Feb. 10, 2020)
  SEGGER's stand-alone Floating-Point Library is now extended by an assembly-optimized variant for RISC-V. The floating-point library contains the complete set of arithmetic functions, hand coded and fully optimized in assembly language for RISC-V.
  
  
• Silex Insight launches True 4K Multiview using AV over IP (Friday Feb. 07, 2020)
  Silex Insight, a leading provider of video codec & AV over IP solutions, announces their AV over IP board (called VIPER) now offers True 4K Multiview supporting up to 12 simultaneous streams of 4K60 4:4:4 resolution, with ultra-low latency.
  
  
• Synopsys Announces New ARC HS4x/4xD Development Kit to Speed Software Development (Thursday Jan. 23, 2020)
  Synopsys, Inc., today announced availability of the DesignWare® ARC® HS4x/4xD Development Kit to accelerate software development for the ARC HS4x/4xD family of high-performance processor IP.
  
  
• Groq Hardware Now Available on Nimbix Cloud (Thursday Jan. 23, 2020)
  Groq, the inventor of the Tensor Streaming Processor (TSP) architecture and a new class of compute, today announced that Groq hardware is now available on the Nimbix Cloud for select Groq partners.
  
  
• Allegro DVT Unveils the Industry's First VVC Compliance Test Bitstreams (Tuesday Jan. 21, 2020)
  Allegro DVT, the leading provider of video codec compliance test suites and semiconductor video IPs, today introduced the world’s first compliance test bitstreams for the new Versatile Video Coding (VVC) video standard, the next video compression technology beyond H.265/HEVC.
  
  
• Synopsys Expands Portfolio of Automotive VDKs with Support for NXP S32G Vehicle Network Processor (Thursday Jan. 09, 2020)
  With the S32G Vehicle Network Processor, NXP unlocks the full potential of vehicle data. It enables modern service-oriented gateways for rapid Over-the-Air (OTA) deployment of new capabilities and advanced edge-to-cloud analytics. It accelerates the shift to simplified domain and zonal-based vehicle architectures.
  
  
• LC3 for Bluetooth LE Audio Now Available for Cadence Tensilica HiFi DSPs (Tuesday Jan. 07, 2020)
  Cadence today announced that an implementation of the Low Complexity Communications Codec (LC3) that is expected to be compliant with LE Audio, the next generation of Bluetooth audio, is available now for Cadence® Tensilica® HiFi DSPs and has been delivered to a lead customer.
  
  
• PRO DESIGN Extends FPGA Based Prototyping Portfolio With proFPGA XCVU13P Module - Offering Highest Interface and System Performance (Monday Dec. 23, 2019)
  PRO DESIGN, leading supplier of FPGA based verification systems, today announced the release of its new XCVU13P FPGA module for its successful and innovative proFPGA product family of FPGA based prototyping solutions.