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• CEVA Partners with eyeSight to Offer Hand Gesture Recognition Solution on CEVA Multimedia Platform for Portable Devices (Monday Nov. 01, 2010)
  CEVA and eyeSight today announced a partnership to offer eyeSight's Hand Gesture Recognition Technology on CEVA's portable multimedia platforms.
  
  
• NetLogic Microsystems Announces Availability of Comprehensive XLP multi-core Processor Hardware and Software Development Kit (Thursday Oct. 28, 2010)
  NetLogic Microsystems today announced the availability of the XLP™ multi-core Processor Development Kit that includes comprehensive hardware and software tools, libraries, drivers and reference solutions.
  
  
• Tuxera Launches Tuxera File System Suite, First to Combine NTFS, exFAT and HFS+ for Android (Thursday Oct. 28, 2010)
  Tuxera today announced Tuxera File System Suite, the industry’s most comprehensive interoperability package consisting of Tuxera NTFS, exFAT and HFS+ file systems as well as Tuxera’s most popular storage management tools.
  
  
• CSR collaborates with Infineon Technologies to integrate wireless connectivity onto mobile phone platforms (Wednesday Oct. 27, 2010)
  CSR today announced that it is collaborating with Infineon Technologies to pre-integrate its wireless connectivity platforms onto Infineon’s cellular reference designs. This new cooperation allows mobile phone OEMs to easily add connectivity functionality beyond Infineon’s existing product portfolio to their products.
  
  
• STMicroelectronics and Green Hills Software Announce Software Support for SPEAr Microprocessor Families (Wednesday Oct. 20, 2010)
  STMicroelectronics and Green Hills Software today announced software development tools and operating system support for the STMicroelectronics SPEAr300 and SPEAr600 family of microprocessor units (MPUs).
  
  
• Tata Elxsi, CommAgility, and Radiocomp collaborate to demonstrate LTE eNodeB Reference Architecture Using a MicroTCA and Remote Radio Head (Tuesday Oct. 19, 2010)
  Tata Elxsi, CommAgility, and Radiocomp collaborate to demonstrate LTE eNodeB Reference Architecture Using a MicroTCA and Remote Radio Head
  
  
• Automotive developers find easier path to ISO26262 safety conformance through Texas Instruments and Yogitech Collaboration (Tuesday Oct. 19, 2010)
  TI and YOGITECH have announced their collaboration to accelerate ISO26262 enablement of 65-nanometer TMS570 safety microcontrollers (MCUs). The collaboration will make future TMS570 devices suitable for use in systems conforming to the upcoming safety standard for the automotive industry.
  
  
• Tata Elxsi extends its LTE Software Portfolio for Cavium Networks OCTEON II Processors (Tuesday Oct. 19, 2010)
  Tata Elxsi today announced the availability of its LTE software portfolio on the latest Cavium Networks OCTEON II processor family.
  
  
• Tata Elxsi announces LTE Femto/Pico reference solution for next generation SoC platforms (Friday Oct. 15, 2010)
  Tata Elxsi today announced the availability of its optimized LTE Femto/Pico eNodeB solution compliant to 3GPP Release 8 and Femto Forum specifications.
  
  
• Mentor Graphics Announces Inflexion Platform User Interface (UI) for Android-Based Device Development (Thursday Oct. 14, 2010)
  Mentor Graphics today announced the Inflexion Platform™ User Interface (UI) for Android, a comprehensive development toolkit comprising a graphics engine and UI creation tool that enables Android application developers to rapidly customize product UIs with visually compelling 2D and 3D animated elements for increased product differentiation.
  
  
• Jungo and Renesas Electronics America partner on USB for SuperH MPUs (Monday Oct. 11, 2010)
  Jungo today announced a partnership with Renesas Electronics America Inc. to bring feature-rich USB connectivity to Renesas Electronics' SuperH® series of RISC microprocessors.
  
  
• EnSilica and Pebble Bay collaborate to target automotive electronics design (Thursday Oct. 07, 2010)
  EnSilica and Pebble Bay are collaborating to target the automotive electronics design market by porting ERIKA Enterprise, the free-of-charge, open source RTOS for automotive systems, to EnSilica’s family of highly configurable and low-power eSi-RISC soft processor cores.
  
  
• Atego Ships its first Multi-core Virtual Machine for ARM Processors (Thursday Oct. 07, 2010)
  Aonix Perc Ultra SMP 5.4 from Atego supports multi-core ARM processors such as those based on the ARM Cortex™ A9 processor. Initial testing of this port was done using a four core ARM processor running Linux.
  
  
• 4M Wireless Completes LTE Protocol Stack Software Port For Tensilica's 3GPP LTE Reference Architecture (Wednesday Oct. 06, 2010)
  Tensilica, Inc. and 4M Wireless today announced that 4M Wireless has completed its port of the PS100 LTE protocol stack to Tensilica's ConnX Atlas LTE reference architecture and has also officially joined Tensilica's Xtensions partner network. 4M Wireless has also ported its PS100 LTE protocol stack to the LTE system platform from Blue Wonder Communications, another Tensilica partner.
  
  
• Sundance First to Combine FPGA and Power-PC440 with PCI Express for PC/104 (Wednesday Oct. 06, 2010)
  Sundance has recorded its centenary product landmark for the PC/104 Embedded Computing specification. With the only solutions that combine FPGA and Power-PC440 with PCI Express for PC/104, Sundance has optimized the range to focus on High-Speed Data Acquisition, Image Processing and Communications applications.
  
  
• PLX Technology Partners with Tuxera to Deliver High-Performance File System Suite (Wednesday Sep. 29, 2010)
  Tuxera and PLX are working together to ensure that the Tuxera® File System Suite, which includes Tuxera NTFS, exFAT and HFS+, are fully optimized for high-speed storage designs using PLX® NAS solutions.
  
  
• New DSP + ARM software tools from Texas Instruments dramatically reduce DSP development starting time from hours to minutes (Tuesday Sep. 28, 2010)
  Today, Texas Instruments is launching two free software development tools to enable ARM®, Linux™ and system developers to easily leverage the real-time, intensive signal processing power of the TMS320C6000™ digital signal processor (DSP) in TI's integrated floating- and fixed-point DSP + ARM processors.
  
  
• Tektronix Introduces Industry's First Test Tools for MIPI M-PHY Debug and Validation (Tuesday Sep. 28, 2010)
  Tektronix, Inc., the world's leading manufacturer of oscilloscopes,today introduced the industry’s first testing tools for the MIPI ® Alliance M-PHY standard, allowing customers to immediately get started with performance verification and debug for this important new specification using Tektronix DPO/DSA/MSO70000B Series oscilloscopes.
  
  
• Ambarella A7 system-on-chip sets new benchmarks for high-resolution video and image quality in consumer HD cameras (Monday Sep. 27, 2010)
  Ambarella has announced availability of the A7 system-on-chip (SoC), extending its product portfolio for the fast-growing market for advanced hybrid still and video cameras.
  
  
• Tuxera Extends exFAT and NTFS Support to QNX Neutrino RTOS (Wednesday Sep. 22, 2010)
  Tuxera today announced that it has ported its exFAT and NTFS file systems to QNX Software Systems Co.’s QNX® Neutrino® RTOS, the leading operating system for in-car infotainment and telematics systems.
  
  
• Imagination enables developers to use 3D navigation data in new SDK (Wednesday Sep. 22, 2010)
  Imagination Technologies announces that the latest version of its POWERVR Insider software development kit (SDK), version 2.7, includes a new tutorial showing developers how to take full advantage of graphics acceleration using OpenGL ES2 to display map and advanced visual guidance data in graphics-rich applications.
  
  
• New Mentor Embedded ReadyStart Provides Highly Integrated, Ready-to-Use Software Platform for Embedded Systems Development (Tuesday Sep. 21, 2010)
  Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced the Mentor(R) Embedded ReadyStart(TM) Platform, a "ready-to-use" solution comprising integrated software IP, tools, and services targeting popular hardware boards and system-on-chips (SoCs).
  
  
• DxO Labs Programmable Core and Image Processing Technology Designed to Drive State-of-the-Art Image Quality for Connected Devices (Monday Sep. 20, 2010)
  DxO Labs and Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) announce a licensing agreement to integrate DxO Labs programmable hardware core and image processing technology into Marvell® ARMADA™ application processors.
  
  
• NXP's 150 MHz LPC1800 MCU Delivers Industry's Highest ARM Cortex-M3 Performance (Monday Sep. 20, 2010)
  NXP Semiconductors N.V. today announced the availability of the industry's highest performance ARM(R) Cortex(TM)-M3 microcontroller. The LPC1800 is optimized for low power operation at very low frequencies all the way through to 150MHz maximum performance from either Flash or RAM.
  
  
• Klocwork Introduces New Capabilities for Multicore and Multiprocessor Software Development (Monday Sep. 20, 2010)
  Klocwork, Inc., the global leader in automated source code analysis solutions for improving developer productivity, today announced new capabilities to help software developers overcome the challenges of multicore and multiprocessor development.
  
  
• MathWorks Delivers GPU Support for MATLAB (Monday Sep. 20, 2010)
  MathWorks announces support for NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) in MATLAB applications using Parallel Computing Toolbox or MATLAB Distributed Computing Server. This support enables engineers and scientists to increase the speed of many of their MATLAB computations without performing low-level programming.
  
  
• Ittiam announces Android-based video phone with HD playback (Thursday Sep. 16, 2010)
  Widening the use of video phone to newer application spaces and environments, Ittiam today announced its ready-to-integrate video phone system on the Android™ operating system.
  
  
• Elliptic Technologies Announces New Suite of Content Protection Solutions (Thursday Sep. 16, 2010)
  Elliptic Technologies today announced the launch of its Ellipsys Trust Framework (ETF), a proven comprehensive solution for the most difficult security challenges faced today by manufacturers and system providers – implementing cost-effective cryptographic protection of high-value assets.
  
  
• Altair Semiconductor Announces Commercial Availability of Digital Dividend (Band 20) Reference Design (Wednesday Sep. 15, 2010)
  Altair Semiconductor today announced the commercial availability of its Digital Dividend (Band 20) reference design. Altair's Digital Dividend reference design features the company's proven FourGee LTE chipset and interoperability-tested software stack.
  
  
• Freescale introduces the industry's first embedded high definition scalable video coding software solution (Wednesday Sep. 15, 2010)
  Freescale Semiconductor is bringing cutting-edge video communication capabilities to OEM customers with the introduction of the industry’s first embedded scalable video coding (SVC) solution. The high definition H.264/SVC software offering is complemented with the option of more than 30 off-the-shelf media codecs designed to run on Freescale’s StarCore-based MSC825x high performance digital signal processors (DSPs).