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• Tuxera Releases GPL-Compliant FAT32 Replacement Package for Android (Wednesday Dec. 29, 2010)
  Tuxera Inc., the leading provider of Windows-compatible file systems for Android, Linux, Mac and other platforms, announced today the release of a complete, GPL-compliant FAT32 replacement package for Android and Linux. The package combines Tuxera’s high-performance, proprietary FAT, FAT32, exFAT and NTFS drivers into easy-to-deploy modules that work with all Android and Linux kernel versions.
  
  
• Wind River and VIA Telecom Collaborate on Android Solution for Smartphones (Monday Dec. 20, 2010)
  Wind River has teamed with VIA Telecom on a multiyear project, codenamed Kunlun, to help bring low-cost Android smartphones featuring high-end capabilities to regional original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) for the Chinese code division multiple access (CDMA) market.
  
  
• DS-5 Supports Boot Code, Kernel, Driver and Application Development for ARM Linux-Based Products (Monday Dec. 20, 2010)
  ARM announced today the release of the ARM Development Studio 5 (DS-5™) v5.3, and the commercial availability of DS-5 Linux Edition.
  
  
• ARM Extends Software Interface Standard with DSP Library (Monday Dec. 13, 2010)
  today announced the availability of Version 2.0 of the ARM® Cortex™ Microcontroller Software Interface Standard (CMSIS). The enhanced version of the vendor-independent hardware abstraction layer contains extensions for the Cortex-M4 processor and includes the CMSIS-DSP (Digital Signal Processing) library of highly optimized signal processing algorithms.
  
  
• Imagination announces Android for META-based SoC application platforms (Friday Dec. 10, 2010)
  Imagination Technologies announces Android™ support for its META multi-threaded processor family, including META connected application platform solutions.
  
  
• Renesas Electronics and Green Hills Software Collaborate to Jointly Develop Basic Software for CPU Virtualization Technology Enabling Real-Time Control (Wednesday Dec. 08, 2010)
  Renesas Electronics and Green Hills Software today announced its collaboration to jointly develop basic software supporting CPU virtualization technology suitable for real-time control applications as well as a software development environment.
  
  
• IntegrIT's Math Library Now Available for Tensilica's HiFi Audio DSPs (Tuesday Dec. 07, 2010)
  Tensilica today announced that the NatureDSP Math library from IntegrIT DSP Design House, a leading supplier of DSP and VoIP software solutions, is now available for Tensilica's HiFi Audio DSPs for system-on-chip (SOC) design.
  
  
• Imperas and OVP Support ARM Cortex-M Cores and Provide Free, Open Source Models (Monday Dec. 06, 2010)
  Imperas™ today released its first models of the Cortex family of processor cores from ARM. Models of the M-series of cores are now available from Open Virtual Platforms™ (OVP™), including example virtual platforms incorporating the cores and support for the cores in Imperas’ advanced software development tools.
  
  
• Freescale and CriticalBlue expand collaboration on multicore software development environments (Thursday Dec. 02, 2010)
  Freescale Semiconductor and CriticalBlue Limited have expanded their relationship with an alliance focused on streamlining embedded multicore software development for Freescale platforms.
  
  
• HyperTransport Consortium Enables Paradigm Shift in Cluster Design With HyperShare Platform (Thursday Dec. 02, 2010)
  HyperTransport Consortium today unveiled a new design platform based on HyperTransport technology that has the potential to dramatically lower cost and energy consumption in the data center.
  
  
• STMicroelectronics Unveils Roadmap for ARM(R) Cortex(TM)-M4 and -M0 Microcontrollers While Unleashing Ultimate Performance of Cortex-M3 With New STM32 F-2 Series (Tuesday Nov. 30, 2010)
  STM32 MCUs based on ARM Cortex-M0 and -M4 cores will complement ST's world-leading 32-bit microcontroller offering in 2011 - New STM32 F-2 series offers 30 new devices; delivers 150DMIPS for high-performance power-sensitive applications
  
  
• Texas Instruments' new AM1810 Sitara ARM MPU, a certified single-chip PROFIBUS solution, reduces power consumption and cost by up to 30 percent for industrial applications (Thursday Nov. 25, 2010)
  TI today announced its AM1810 Sitara™ ARM microprocessor (MPU), a new single-chip ARM9™ solution with an integrated PROFIBUS interface, the worlds’ most popular fieldbus used for communications between factory automation equipment.
  
  
• Intel Expands Customer Choice with First Configurable Intel Atom-based Processor (Tuesday Nov. 23, 2010)
  Intel today announced the configurable Intel® Atom™ processor E600C series, which features an Intel® Atom™ E600 processor (formerly codenamed “Tunnel Creek”) paired with an Altera* Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) in a single package.
  
  
• ZT Systems Announces ARM-based Server Solution for Breakthrough Energy Efficiency and Density in Hyperscale Data Centers (Friday Nov. 19, 2010)
  ZT Systems today announced the R1801e 1U Server powered by up to 16 ARM® Cortex™-A9 processor cores. Fully populated with eight server modules, eight SSDs, dual integrated Gigabit Ethernet switches and IPMI server management, this server has a system maximum power draw of less than 80 Watts.
  
  
• Silicon Hive Introduces Camera Application Solution for Smart Phones (Wednesday Nov. 17, 2010)
  Silicon Hive announced HiveGo CSS3205 - the newest member of its family of HiveGo CSS Camera System Solution IP products. CSS3205 can be licensed together with the new imaging software application packages HiveUX and HiveUX+, bringing unrivaled image and video capturing experience to smart phones.
  
  
• CriticalBlue announces support for Texas Instruments’ new TMS320C66x DSP core within Prism (Thursday Nov. 11, 2010)
  CriticalBlue announced today a development program to add support for Texas Instruments’ Incorporated (TI) new TMS320C66x digital signal processor (DSP) generation based on the KeyStone multicore architecture within CriticalBlue’s Prism product.
  
  
• Tata Elxsi announces availability of LTE eNodeB Layer 1 software on Texas Instruments C66x based SoC (Wednesday Nov. 10, 2010)
  Tata Elxsi today announced the availability of its market-leading LTE eNodeB Layer 1 software on the latest Texas Instruments’ Incorporated (TI) TMS320TCI6616 base station system-on-chip (SoC).
  
  
• Linaro gains momentum and demonstrates progress accelerating open source development (Wednesday Nov. 10, 2010)
  Linaro completes 10.11 release on time and showcases its engineering on multiple ARM Cortex-A9 chips running multiple software distributions
  
  
• LynxOS-SE RTOS for ARM Architecture (Cortex-A8) Showcased at ARM Technology Conference (Wednesday Nov. 10, 2010)
  LynuxWorks is showcasing its LynxOS®-SE real-time operating system running on the ARM® Cortex-A8 processor at the ARM Technology Conference.
  
  
• Atmel Expands ARM Cortex-M3 Flash MCU Family With SAM3N Series (Wednesday Nov. 10, 2010)
  Atmel announced the new Atmel SAM3N series to expand their ARM® Cortex™-M3 Flash Family.
  
  
• Marvell Unveils 1.6GHz Quad-Core ARMADA XP Platform for Enterprise-Class Cloud Computing Applications (Wednesday Nov. 10, 2010)
  Marvell today announced the Company will demonstrate its quad-core processing, enterprise-class cloud computing platform, Marvell® ARMADA™ XP (Extreme Performance). The ARMADA XP is the fastest ARM processor available on the market today for enterprise class applications.
  
  
• ARM Launches Streamline Performance Analyzer Targeting Linux Developers (Tuesday Nov. 09, 2010)
  ARM has introduced Streamline Performance Analyzer, a tool for optimizing Linux applications running on ARM powered devices. Streamline automates the collection of performance data and the generation of intuitive graphical reports, which enable software developers to easily locate application hot-spots, multi-threading issues, and inefficient usage of system resources.
  
  
• Imperas and Micrium Ease Embedded Software Development For Systems Using µC/OS-II RTOS (Tuesday Nov. 09, 2010)
  Imperas today announced a flow with Micrium, Inc. focused on enabling more productive and higher quality embedded software development with the Micrium μC/OS-II Real-Time Operating System (RTOS).
  
  
• Mentor Extends ReadyStart Embedded Software Platform to Texas Instruments' Stellaris ARM Cortex-M3 MCUs (Monday Nov. 08, 2010)
  Mentor Graphics today announced the Mentor® Embedded ReadyStart Platform support for the Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) Stellaris® ARM® CortexTM-M3 microcontrollers (MCUs). The recently announced ReadyStart Platform is a "ready-to-use" solution comprising integrated software IP, tools, and services targeting popular hardware boards and system-on-chips (SoCs).
  
  
• TES announces DM3730 based MAGiK (Media & Graphics Innovation Kit) supporting Android 2.2 (Froyo) and Linux (Thursday Nov. 04, 2010)
  TES Electronic Solutions announces an upgrade to its MAGiK family of embedded computing development kits with the incorporation of Texas Instruments’ DaVinci DM3730 media processor, as well as supporting the Android operating system.
  
  
• Tuxera and Mentor Graphics Partner to Add exFAT and NTFS Support for Nucleus OS; Extend Android and Linux Leadership (Thursday Nov. 04, 2010)
  Tuxera announced today a partnership agreement with Mentor Graphics. Tuxera also announced Tuxera exFAT and NTFS for the Mentor® Embedded ReadyStart™ Multi OS platform that runs on Nucleus® OS as well as Android and Linux.
  
  
• ASSET's ScanWorks is first development tool for the emerging IJTAG embedded instrumentation standard (Tuesday Nov. 02, 2010)
  The ASSET® ScanWorks® platform for embedded instruments has the industry’s first toolkit to automate the development of validation and test routines based on the soon-to-be ratified Internal JTAG (IEEE P1687 IJTAG) standard.
  
  
• ASSET partners with leading EMS to accelerate adoption of new IEEE P1687 embedded instrumentation standard (Tuesday Nov. 02, 2010)
  ASSET® InterTech has partnered with Flextronics, a leading electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider, to accelerate the adoption of the new IEEE PP1687 Internal JTAG (IJTAG) standard.
  
  
• Express Logic Announces ThreadX RTOS for CEVA-TeakLite III DSP Core (Monday Nov. 01, 2010)
  Express Logic today announced that its popular ThreadX RTOS now supports CEVA, Inc.’s CEVA-TeakLite-III™ DSP core.
  
  
• NXP's New Dual-Core Cortex-M4 and M0 MCU Redefines Digital Signal Control (Monday Nov. 01, 2010)
  NXP today announced the LPC4000 family, the world’s first asymmetrical dual-core digital signal controller architecture featuring ARM® Cortex™-M4 and Cortex-M0 processors. The LPC4000 brings the advantage of developing DSP and MCU applications within a single architecture and development environment.