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• 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.
  
  
• eSOL and Kalray extend their cooperation to address demanding needs of automotive, industrial and medical applications (Monday Jul. 15, 2019)
  Kalray and eSOL announce today the availability of eSOL’s eMCOS POSIX Real Time Operating System (RTOS) on Kalray’s MPPA® intelligent processor to address growing and demanding needs for performance, safety and security of Automotive, Industrial and Medical Markets.
  
  
• Verimatrix Brings Effortless Application Security to the Masses, Launches New ProtectMyApp Service for Developers (Tuesday Jul. 09, 2019)
  Verimatrix today announced the launch of ProtectMyApp, a groundbreaking new service designed to bring cost-effective mobile application security to developers — providing an unmatched level of simplicity and speed to the protection phase of app development.
  
  
• CEVA Introduces Fully-Integrated Wi-Fi Solution to Connect IoT Devices to the Alibaba Cloud (Tuesday Jun. 25, 2019)
  The turnkey solution integrates CEVA’s industry-leading RivieraWaves Wi-Fi Low Power IP together with the AliOS Things operating system on a single RISC-V CPU core, providing customers with the freedom to focus their development efforts on creating differentiation in the end application.
  
  
• Synopsys Expands Center of Excellence with Infineon to Deliver Virtualizer Development Kit for AURIX TC4x Automotive Microcontroller (Tuesday Jun. 25, 2019)
  Collaboration for Third Generation Builds on Successful Deployment of VDKs for AURIX TC2x and TC3x Series to Enable Early Software Development at Tier1 and OEM Customers
  
  
• Western Digital Extends Openness of PlatformIO and Enhances its RISC-V Portfolio to Accelerate Data-Centric Innovation (Thursday Jun. 20, 2019)
  Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced a new a strategic partnership with PlatformIO Labs, OÜ, in collaboration with SiFive, Inc., to extend the openness of PlatformIO vendor-agnostic embedded development platform to include new tools, thereby providing an end-to-end, open environment for innovation, including development for RISC-V
  
  
• NVIDIA Brings CUDA to Arm, Enabling New Path to Exascale Supercomputing (Tuesday Jun. 18, 2019)
  NVIDIA today announced its support for Arm CPUs, providing the high performance computing industry a new path to build extremely energy-efficient, AI-enabled exascale supercomputers.
  
  
• Cobham Releases New Instruction Simulator for Radiation Hardened Processors (Tuesday Jun. 11, 2019)
  Cobham Gaisler announced today the release of a new Instruction Simulator for radiation hardened processors.
  
  
• Gyrfalcon's 2803 Plai Plug Development Hardware Delivers 24 TOPS/W for AI From Edge to Cloud (Tuesday Jun. 11, 2019)
  New USB Plug-In Provides Highest AI Performance Combined With Superior Energy Efficiency for Customers Developing Advanced Edge & Data Center Solutions
  
  
• Silex Insight now supports 1GbE, 2.5GbE & 10GbE with their AV over IP OEM boards (Friday Jun. 07, 2019)
  Silex Silex Insight, a leading provider of AV over IP solutions, announces the extension of its family of ultra-low latency Audio/Video over IP OEM boards (called Viper), with the support of 2,5Gb and 10Gb Ethernet (in addition to 1GbE).
  
  
• Imperas delivers first RISC-V Simulator for new Vector and Bit Manipulation specifications to Lead Customers (Friday Jun. 07, 2019)
  Imperas leading simulation technology updated to include the latest ratified RISC-V specifications and new Vector and Bit Manipulation standard extensions. Used for RISC-V software development, compliance, and DV test developments
  
  
• Inside Secure Releases Industry's First Tool to Quickly, Graphically Create Secure Crypto Architectures (Wednesday Jun. 05, 2019)
  Inside Secure (Euronext Paris: INSD) today announced general availability of Whitebox Designer, its new software security tool that arms vehicle app developers, IoT device developers and OEMs with new levels of protection, reduced time to market, and simplified creation of crypto architectures.
  
  
• Wave Computing and Imperas Introduce New MIPS Open Simulator - MIPSOpenOVPsim (Friday May. 31, 2019)
  Wave Computing and Imperas Software introduced a new Instruction Set Simulator (ISS) for the MIPS Open™ community of SoC designers and processor architects, called MIPSOpenOVPsim™.
  
  
• Hex Five Adds MultiZone Security to the AdaCore Software Ecosystem (Tuesday May. 28, 2019)
  Hex Five Security Inc., creator of MultiZone™, the first trusted execution environment for RISC-V, today joined AdaCore’s Partner Program to enable the secure execution of Ada applications on RISC-V processors.
  
  
• IAR Systems takes RISC-V to the next level with launch of professional development tools with leading performance and ensured code quality (Thursday May. 23, 2019)
  IAR Systems®, the future-proof supplier of software tools and services for embedded development, announces the immediate availability of the leading C/C++ compiler and debugger toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench® with support for RISC-V cores.