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• ArchiTek Select SiFive and DTS-Insight To Enable Next-Generation AI Solution Development (Monday Nov. 18, 2019)
  SiFive announced today a new partnership with ArchiTek Corporation, a leading embedded technology designer, in collaboration with DTS-Insight, a leading embedded platform software developer.
  
  
• Aerendir Mobile Inc. and SiFive Inc. Collaborate to Accelerate the Adoption of AI-Enabled Processors (Tuesday Nov. 12, 2019)
  Aerendir Mobile Inc. will merge its mathematical deep learning cores and AI infrastructure with innovative SiFive, Inc., RISC-V Core IP to enable a new low-cost board format for deep learning. This combined, unique approach will radically decrease the cost of true AI, allowing it to be enabled at the IoT Edge and End Point, inside affordable devices.
  
  
• Abaco Announces Industry's First 6U VPX Solution to Feature New Xilinx RF System-on-Chip Technology (Thursday Nov. 07, 2019)
  Abaco Systems today announced the industry's first 6U VPX implementation of the transformational Xilinx® 16x16 RF system-on-chip (RFSoC) technology combined with the Xilinx Ultrascale+™ FPGA with High Bandwidth Memory (HBM).
  
  
• IAR Systems delivers development from device to cloud through integration with Amazon Web Services (Tuesday Nov. 05, 2019)
  IAR Systems®, the future-proof supplier of software tools and services for embedded development, launches a new edition of IAR Embedded Workbench® for Arm® that provides integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
  
  
• AdaCore Introduces Support for C++ Embedded Environments (Tuesday Nov. 05, 2019)
  AdaCore today announced that its GNAT Pro product line now supports the development of embedded software written in C++.
  
  
• Xilinx Alveo Accelerators Power SK Telecom's Real-Time AI-based Physical Intrusion and Theft Detection Service (Monday Nov. 04, 2019)
  Xilinx and SK Telecom today announced that SK Telecom has adopted Xilinx® Alveo™ Datacenter Accelerator cards to power a real-time AI-based physical intrusion and theft detection service.
  
  
• Hex Five Adds MultiZone Security Isolation with Micron's Authenta Flash (Tuesday Oct. 29, 2019)
  Hex Five Security Inc. today announced the availability of MultiZone™ Security Trusted Execution Environment for Micron’s Authenta™-enabled flash technology.
  
  
• Micron Introduces Industry's First Silicon-Based Security-as-a-Service Platform for IoT Edge Devices (Friday Oct. 25, 2019)
  Micron Technology today introduced the industry’s first silicon-based security-as-a-service platform for protecting internet of things (IoT) edge devices. The new Micron® Authenta™ Key Management Service (KMS) platform enables a cloud-first deployment model for a broad set of industrial and automotive applications.
  
  
• Micron Introduces Comprehensive AI Development Platform (Friday Oct. 25, 2019)
  Micron Technology today announced a powerful new set of high-performance hardware and software tools for deep learning applications with the acquisition of FWDNXT, a software and hardware startup.
  
  
• Gidel Provides 3x Acceleration of FPGA and ASIC Development and Validation for Vision and Image Processing (Friday Oct. 25, 2019)
  Gidel, a technology leader in cutting-edge Vision and Imaging solutions based on FPGAs, today announced the newest addition to its robust developer’s kit, CertifEye, which provides a comprehensive development, debug, and validation solution.
  
  
• TensorFlow gets native support for PowerVR GPUs via optimised open-source SYCL libraries (Thursday Oct. 24, 2019)
  Imagination Technologies announces that developers working with TensorFlow will be able to target PowerVR GPUs directly thanks to newly optimised open source SYCL neural network libraries. The first release will be available in November 2019.
  
  
• Arm and silicon partners collaborate on IoT development through new Mbed OS Partner Governance model (Tuesday Oct. 08, 2019)
  For nearly 30 years the Arm ecosystem of more than 1,000 partners collaborated thanks to an underlying shared success model to deliver more than 150 billion chips. This ecosystem has been described as the oxygen that fuels this collective engagement and makes development as simple as breathing.
  
  
• Arm Announces Custom Instructions for embedded CPUs and Mbed OS Partner Governance (Tuesday Oct. 08, 2019)
  Arm Custom Instructions will initially be implemented in Arm Cortex®-M33 CPUs starting in the first half of 2020 at no additional cost to new and existing licensees, enabling SoC designers to add their own instructions for specific embedded and IoT applications without risk of software fragmentation.
  
  
• Los Alamos National Laboratory Teams with Arm to Develop Tailored, Efficient Processor Architectures (Thursday Oct. 03, 2019)
  Los Alamos National Laboratory and Arm are teaming up to make efficient, workload-optimized processors tailored to the extreme-scale computing requirements of the Laboratory’s national-security mission.
  
  
• Xilinx Announces Vitis - a Unified Software Platform Unlocking a New Design Experience for All Developers (Wednesday Oct. 02, 2019)
  Xilinx today announced Vitis™ (pronounced Vī-tis), a unified software platform that enables a broad new range of developers – including software engineers and AI scientists – to take advantage of the power of hardware adaptability.
  
  
• Andes and Dover Microsystems Partner to Deliver Professional Network Security Solution for RISC-V (Thursday Sep. 26, 2019)
  Dover’s CoreGuard silicon IP integrates with Andes RISC-V processors to protect against 94% of known software vulnerabilities, including 100% buffer overflows, code injection, and data exfiltration as well as safety violations.
  
  
• European Space Agency Selects AdaCore's Qualified Multitasking Solution for Spacecraft Software Development (Wednesday Sep. 25, 2019)
  AdaCore, a trusted provider of software development and verification tools, today announced that the European Space Agency (ESA) has selected AdaCore to provide a qualified multitasking solution for spacecraft software development to support multiple ongoing and future ESA projects.
  
  
• IAR Systems launches functional safety tools for STMicroelectronics' 8-bit MCUs (Monday Sep. 23, 2019)
  Certified by TÜV SÜD, the functional safety edition of IAR Embedded Workbench for STMicroelectronics’ STM8 delivers qualified tools, simplified validation and guaranteed support through the product life cycle
  
  
• SEGGER Makes Its Entire Ecosystem of Tools Available for AndesCores (Thursday Sep. 19, 2019)
  SEGGER together with Andes today announce their collaboration to support the complete development process of embedded systems based on Andes RISC-V CPUs with easy to use, efficient and reliable, tools and libraries.
  
  
• Socionext Adds 8K Encoding Feature to M820L Media Accelerator Card (Monday Sep. 16, 2019)
  Socionext Inc. releases the latest solution that enables an encoding acceleration feature of 8K resolution video with the company's ‘M820L’ media accelerator card.
  
  
• Swift Media Reinvests in Verimatrix with VCAS Ultra Upgrade and Expansion (Tuesday Sep. 10, 2019)
  Verimatrix today announced that its customer, Swift Media, has evolved its existing Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS™) to a more efficient cloud infrastructure that better supports new business models and 4K/UHD video services.
  
  
• Swift Navigation Partners with Arm to Bring Precise Positioning Technology to Autonomous Vehicle Compute Platforms (Tuesday Sep. 10, 2019)
  Swift ​​Navigation​, ​​a San Francisco-based tech firm redefining Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning technology for autonomous vehicles, today announced a partnership with Arm®, a global leader in semiconductor IP.
  
  
• Verimatrix Integrates Multi-DRM with Amazon Web Services Elemental Secure Packager Encoder Key Exchange (SPEKE) API (Monday Sep. 02, 2019)
  Verimatrix today announced interoperability between the Verimatrix Multi-DRM solution and the Secure Packager Encoder Key Exchange (SPEKE) API developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
  
  
• Arm, WDC and Qualcomm Announce OpenChain Conformance Activities (Monday Aug. 19, 2019)
  Arm and Western Digital Corporation, Platinum Members of the OpenChain Project and key participants in the global supply chain, today announce conformance with the OpenChain Specification.
  
  
• Sundance launches VCS-1 embedded processor module for precision robotics applications (Monday Aug. 12, 2019)
  Sundance Multiprocessor Technology has launched the Sundance VCS-1, a small, high performance, low power and lightweight embedded processor platform designed specifically for precision robotics incorporating complex, real-time vision, control and sensor applications.
  
  
• Xilinx Expands Alveo Portfolio with Industry's First Adaptable Compute, Network and Storage Accelerator Card Built for Any Server, Any Cloud (Tuesday Aug. 06, 2019)
  Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), the leader in adaptive and intelligent computing, today expanded its Alveo data center accelerator card portfolio with the launch of the Alveo™ U50. The U50 card is the industry's first low profile adaptable accelerator with PCIe Gen 4 support, uniquely designed to supercharge a broad range of critical compute, network and storage workloads, all on one reconfigurable platform.
  
  
• InAccel's Accelerated ML suite boosts Spark ML as much as 7x using Intel's Arria FPGAs (Monday Aug. 05, 2019)
  InAccel has developed an integrated ML suite based on FPGAs that allows up to 7x speedup compared to an 8-core general purpose CPU execution for widely used applications like logistic regression, K-means clustering and XGboost.
  
  
• Arm brings automation to IoT connectivity management (Thursday Aug. 01, 2019)
  Pelion Connectivity Management already offered MNOs the simplicity of a single platform for managing IoT connectivity across all their device’s lifecycles. With the release of Pelion Connectivity Management 2.0, MNOs can now drive additional revenue opportunities by enabling their enterprise clients with capabilities for automatically configuring their IoT devices.
  
  
• Allegro DVT Announces the Availability of the First AVS3 Compliance Test Suite (Thursday Jul. 25, 2019)
  Allegro DVT, the leading provider of video codec compliance test suites and semiconductor video IPs, today introduced the first compliance test suite for the new AVS3 video standard, the latest addition to the AVS family of video coding standards.
  
  
• DSP Concepts and CEVA Partner to Streamline Audio/Voice DSP Software Development for High-End Sound Applications (Thursday Jul. 18, 2019)
  CEVA and DSP Concepts today announced that DSP Concepts’ industry-leading Audio Weaver® tools and TalkTo voice front-end now support the CEVA-X2 and CEVA-BX family of DSPs. Audio Weaver is already being used by a number of customers who are leveraging the design tool to develop advanced audio and voice applications for their CEVA DSP based designs.