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• 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.
  
  
• Bluespec Unveils Groundbreaking "RISC-V Factory" - Empowering Open Source Hardware Developers to Build Faster and More Efficiently (Monday Dec. 23, 2019)
  From developers to embedded systems engineers and beyond, those working in the RISC-V field now have a brand new resource at their fingertips that enables them to become RISC-V power users and design with RISC-V open source cores far more safely and efficiently.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• CEVA Puts Intuitive Motion Control in the Palm of Your Hand with New Sensor Fusion Solution for Consumer Handheld Devices (Thursday Dec. 19, 2019)
  Hillcrest Labs MotionEngine™ Air algorithms and full software stack enable precise motion-based gesture control, 3D motion tracking and pointing for a wide variety of wireless handheld controllers
  
  
• Wind River Announces RISC-V Support for VxWorks RTOS (Wednesday Dec. 18, 2019)
  Wind River today announced RISC-V open architecture support for its industry-leading VxWorks® real-time operating system (RTOS).
  
  
• Renesas Electronics Collaborates with Xilinx on Versal ACAP Reference Designs (Tuesday Dec. 17, 2019)
  Renesas today announced that its power solutions, as well as timing solutions from IDT, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Renesas, support the Xilinx Versal adaptive compute acceleration platform (ACAP) devices featured on the Xilinx VCK190 evaluation kit and the Renesas VERSALDEMO1Z power reference board.
  
  
• INSPECTOR diagnostic and debug platform passed the PCIe 4.0 compliance (Friday Dec. 13, 2019)
  PLDA’s INSPECTOR diagnostic and debug tool for PCIe 4.0 passed all Gold and Interoperability tests for systems with CEM slots
  
  
• Aldec's new FPGA-based NVMe Data Storage Solution Targets High Performance Computing Applications (Friday Dec. 13, 2019)
  TySOM embedded systems development platforms and stackable non-volatile memory express FPGA mezzanine cards combination is ideal for applications requiring high-bandwidth, low-latency access to SSDs within a reprogrammable system architecture.
  
  
• MediaTek selects Nucleus RTOS for next-generation modem technology (Thursday Dec. 12, 2019)
  Mentor, a Siemens business, today announced that MediaTek, a world leading fabless semiconductor company has selected the ReadyStart™ edition of the Nucleus™ RTOS platform for the development of its next-generation modem chipsets.
  
  
• Hex Five Announces General Availability of MultiZone Security for Linux - The First Commercial Enclave for RISC-V processors (Tuesday Dec. 10, 2019)
  Hex Five Security Inc. announces the general availability of MultiZone™ Security for Linux, the industry-first enclave specifically designed to bring security through separation to embedded systems.
  
  
• Andes Technology and Deeplite, INC. Join Forces To Deploy Highly Compact Deep Learning Models Into Daily Life (Tuesday Dec. 10, 2019)
  Andes Technology and AI startup Deeplite today announced the results of their joint collaboration to deploy highly optimized deep learning models on Andes RISC-V CPU cores based on AndeStar™ V5 architecture .
  
  
• Andes Corvette-F1 N25 Platform Becomes one of the first RISC-V Platforms Qualified for Amazon FreeRTOS (Monday Dec. 09, 2019)
  Andes Technology today announced its Corvette-F1 N25 platform is one of the first RISC-V platforms qualified for Amazon FreeRTOS. Amazon FreeRTOS is an open source operating system for microcontrollers from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that makes small, low-power edge devices easy to program, deploy, secure, connect, and manage.
  
  
• Andes certifies Imperas models and simulator as reference for new Andes RISC-V Vectors Core with lead customers and partners (Thursday Dec. 05, 2019)
  Imperas Software today announced with Andes Technology, the close collaboration with lead customers for the latest Andes Vectors Core NX27V, which addresses the requirement for advanced ML (machine learning) and AI (artificial intelligence) applications.
  
  
• Neoverse N1 makes debut in new AWS cloud instances (Wednesday Dec. 04, 2019)
  Today, in his opening keynote at AWS re:Invent, CEO Andy Jassy announced the next-generation Arm Neoverse-based Graviton processor, Graviton2, which will power a new generation of instances in the AWS general purpose (M), compute optimized (C), and memory optimized (R) portfolios.
  
  
• SiFive Learn Inventor Development System Now AWS Qualified (Tuesday Dec. 03, 2019)
  SiFive nnounced today the SiFive Learn Inventor Development System is now recognized as an Amazon FreeRTOS-qualified device, one of the leading-edge RISC-V based devices to receive this status.
  
  
• Imperas delivers highest quality RISC-V RV32I compliance test suites to implementers and adopters of RISC-V (Tuesday Nov. 26, 2019)
  Imperas Software Ltd., the leader in virtual platforms and high-performance software simulation, today announced the release of the latest update to the RISC-V compliance test suite for RV32I base RISC-V configuration.
  
  
• Aldec's Latest Embedded Development Platform is First to Feature Largest PolarFire and SmartFusion2 FPGAs on a Single Board (Tuesday Nov. 26, 2019)
  Aldec’s HES-MPF500-M2S150 Development Kit supports the early co-development and co-verification of hardware and software in projects targeting FPGAs from Microchip’s PolarFire and SmartFusion2 families.
  
  
• Expanding Universe for HPC, NVIDIA CEO Brings GPU Acceleration to Arm (Tuesday Nov. 19, 2019)
  Broadening support for GPU-accelerated supercomputing to a fast-growing new platform, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang Monday introduced a reference design for building GPU-accelerated Arm servers, with wide industry backing.