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• New ASSET ScanWorks toolkit allows memory suppliers to validate DDR3 memory for Intel platforms (Tuesday Sep. 14, 2010)
  A new toolkit for ASSET’s ScanWorks® platform for embedded instruments will allow memory suppliers to thoroughly validate the connectivity of their DDR3 memory chips with certain advanced Intel® processors. ASSET® InterTech is the leading supplier of open tools for embedded instrumentation.
  
  
• Open Kernel Labs Delivers OKL4 Mobile Virtualization for ARM Cortex-A15 Processor (Monday Sep. 13, 2010)
  Open Kernel Labs today announced off-the-shelf support for the newly-introduced ARM Cortex™-A15 MPCore processor from ARM. The OKL4 Microvisor is immediately available for the Cortex-A15 processor simulator and will support Cortex-A15 processors as they roll out over the next 18-24 months.
  
  
• VirtualLogix VLX Virtualization Software Now Integrates with Cortex A15, Enabling Mobile Device Manufacturers to Begin Next-Gen Designs Today (Monday Sep. 13, 2010)
  VLX™ Software Demonstrated on ARM Cortex A9MP-based Blaze™ Mobile Development Platform from Texas Instruments Simultaneously Running 3 OS with HDTV Video
  
  
• ARM, Dolby and Ittiam Collaborate To Bring Optimized Home Audio Solutions To Market (Monday Sep. 13, 2010)
  ARM® and Ittiam today announced the implementation of the Dolby® MS10 Multistream Decoder on ARM Cortex™-A Series of processors including optimization on NEON.
  
  
• LeCroy Announces Industry's Most Comprehensive MIPI Test Solutions (Friday Sep. 10, 2010)
  LeCroy, a leading supplier of oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers and serial data test solutions, today announced the industry's most comprehensive testing solutions for the mobile phone industry specifically targeted to MIPI (Mobile Industry Processor Interface) standards.
  
  
• Imagination selects INTERRA’s VEGA H264/MVC Analyzer for 3D Video IP Development (Thursday Sep. 09, 2010)
  Interra Systems today announced that Imagination Technologies, a global leader in multimedia and communication technologies has selected Interra’s Vega H264 analyzer with Multiview Video Coding (MVC) capability to aid 3D video development in its POWERVR Video IP products.
  
  
• Direct Insight introduces SwiftModule-DM with 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 (Friday Sep. 03, 2010)
  Direct Insight announces SwiftModule-DM, a tiny production-ready module equipped with a TI Da Vinci DM3730 with 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 core, and an optional DSP imaging and video accelerator capable of 720p HD video encoding and decoding. SwiftModule-DM is the most powerful ARM-based system on module available today.
  
  
• Imagination and Samsung announce latest POWERVR SDK supports new Samsung Galaxy Tab (Friday Sep. 03, 2010)
  Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia and communications technologies company, announces that the new Samsung Galaxy Tab is fully supported by Imagination’s POWERVR Insider SDK for Android.
  
  
• China's Godson gets vector boost, aims for 28 nm (Thursday Aug. 26, 2010)
  A chief architect of China's microprocessor initiative described an ambitious set of new Godson CPUs including a server chip with vector processing. Wei-wu Hu, a professor at Beijing's Institute of Computing Technology that has led development of the chips, announced several new 65 nm parts debuting in 2011 and plans to leapfrog to a 28-nm process for the next generation.
  
  
• Discretix Multi-Scheme DRM Supports Microsoft PlayReady, to Enable Premium Content on Connected Devices (Wednesday Aug. 25, 2010)
  Discretix announced today that its Multi-Scheme DRM Client one of the industry’s best-known and widely deployed Digital Rights Management (DRM) device products, is supporting Microsoft PlayReady® content access and protection technology.
  
  
• ChipWrights Stacks Linux Application Development Kit with Major Enhancements for IPTV Set-Top Boxes and IP Cameras (Thursday Aug. 19, 2010)
  ChipWrights New Linux® Application Development Kit for the CW5631 System-on-Chip provides the components to develop low-cost IPTV set-top boxes and IP cameras and significantly improve time to market.
  
  
• L&T Infotech completes Interoperability Tests of LTE-UE with Trillium eNodeB software (Wednesday Aug. 18, 2010)
  L&T Infotech announced today that its LTE User Equipment (UE) Stack has successfully been validated in interoperability tests (IOT) with Trillium® LTE eNodeB software from Continuous Computing.
  
  
• In-System Emulation Technology VarioTAP supports ARM11 Core (Wednesday Aug. 18, 2010)
  GOEPEL electronic has developed a dedicated model library for processors with ARM11 architecture that supports the innovative emulation technology VarioTAP.
  
  
• NVELO Launches Dataplex Product, Brings Solid-State-Storage to Mainstream (Wednesday Aug. 18, 2010)
  NVELO today launched its Dataplex™ product, the industry’s first host-based software product that uses adaptive caching algorithms to manage the use of a Solid-State Drive (SSD) together with a Hard Disk Drive (HDD).
  
  
• New DaVinci DM37x video processors from Texas Instruments combine 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8 and 800MHz C64x+ DSP, enabling 720p HD video for media-rich applications (Tuesday Aug. 17, 2010)
  
  
  
• Sundance Launches New Family of Multicore Developer Platforms (Monday Aug. 16, 2010)
  Sundance today announced customer shipping of the first product from its new family of Multicore Developer Platforms (Sundance MDP). The compact form factor EVP6472-941 features two Texas Instruments (TI) TMS320C6472 multicore DSPs with twelve TMS320C64x+™ processor cores clocked at 500MHz for real time processing tasks.
  
  
• Synopsys Launches DesignWare USB Software Alliance Program (Thursday Aug. 12, 2010)
  Synopsys today announced the launch of the DesignWare® USB Software Alliance Program with leading USB software providers emsys, Jungo, MCCI and MicroDigital as inaugural members. This alliance program establishes an ecosystem of qualified USB software providers for drivers, firmware and stacks which have proven interoperability with Synopsys' DesignWare USB 2.0 and SuperSpeed USB 3.0 IP.
  
  
• Groundbreaking family of vDisplay IP engines enriches Pleora's solution set for real-time networked video connectivity (Thursday Aug. 12, 2010)
  Pleora Technologies today released the vDisplay™ family of IP engines, the industry's first video receivers designed specifically for viewing stations and specialized processing appliances on high-performance video networks.
  
  
• Analog Devices Collaborates With Altera To Streamline Wireless Infrastructure System Development (Tuesday Aug. 10, 2010)
  ADI introduced a development platform for wireless infrastructure equipment designers who need to evaluate systems using DPD (digital pre-distortion) techniques in multi-carrier cellular base stations. ADI's MS-DPD (mixed-signal, digital pre-distortion) development platform seamlessly integrates a complete high-performance RF and mixed-signal transmit chain from ADI with any FPGA (field-programmable gate array) development kit with an HSMC (high-speed mezzanine card) connector from industry leading programmable-logic vendor Altera.
  
  
• Elecard releases Elecard Codec SDK G4 v1.3.2 with implemented full DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) support for AVC/H.264 format (Tuesday Aug. 10, 2010)
  Elecard Devices today announced the release of Elecard Codec SDK G4 v1.3.2, a line of software development kits for creating digital video encoding and playback applications using Elecard components within the Microsoft® DirectShow® technology.
  
  
• Discretix Multi-Scheme DRM Available for the Latest Version of Android (Froyo) (Monday Aug. 09, 2010)
  Discretix today announced that its Multi-Scheme DRM Client is now available for version 2.2 of the Android™ operating system (codenamed Froyo). Deployed on devices from Sony Ericsson, HTC, Motorola and other leading OEMs, Discretix’ Multi-Scheme DRM Client supports all major DRM schemes in use today, enabling high-end content services for smartphones, netbooks, tablets and other connected devices.
  
  
• Discretix Announces Multi-Scheme DRM Support For MeeGO Operating System (Monday Aug. 02, 2010)
  Discretix today announced that its Multi-Scheme DRM Client is now available for the Intel/Nokia MeeGO operating system. Discretix’ Multi-Scheme DRM Client supports all major DRM schemes in use today, enabling high-end content including HD video to be displayed on smartphones, netbooks, tablets and other connected mobile gear running MeeGO.
  
  
• SySDSoft Ports Complete LTE Protocol Stack to Tensilica's Atlas LTE Reference Architecture (Wednesday Jul. 28, 2010)
  Tensilica and SySDSoft announced today their partnership to port SySDSoft's LTE UE protocol stacks onto Tensilica's ConnX Atlas LTE (long-term evolution) reference architecture for User Equipment (UE). SySDSoft has also ported its LTE protocol stack to the LTE system platform from mimoOn, who also is a Tensilica partner.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Delivers Reference Implementation for Skype on MIPS-Based Devices (Monday Jul. 26, 2010)
  MIPS announced that support for the MIPS® architecture is included in new SkypeKit developer tools available now from Skype. Through the SkypeKit closed beta program, MIPS has developed a Skype reference implementation for the MIPS® architecture-the leading architecture for the digital home.
  
  
• MindTree Unveils Bluetooth Low Energy Stack on TI's WiLink 7.0 Solution (Monday Jul. 26, 2010)
  MindTree today announced the launch of its EtherMind Bluetooth low energy stack on the quad-radio, single-chip WiLink™ 7.0 solution from Texas Instruments.
  
  
• Mentor Graphics Collaboration with National Instruments Speeds Time to Market with Faster Test Bench Development (Monday Jul. 26, 2010)
  Mentor Graphics today announced that collaborative efforts with National Instruments have resulted in a solution that provides test-oriented feedback to design teams at every step of the design process. The new SystemVisionT SVX Client environment for the NI LabVIEW software allows designers to develop their test bench against a virtual prototype based upon their specification, and then use the exact same test bench in the NI LabVIEW software on physical prototypes.
  
  
• Mentor Embedded Nucleus Real Time Operating System Adoption Exceeds 2.1 Billion Handsets (Thursday Jul. 22, 2010)
  Mentor Graphics today announced that the Mentor Embedded™ Nucleus® Real Time Operating System (RTOS) is the handset industry’s most widely adopted RTOS, found in over 2.11 billion devices, according to the VisionMobile’s 100 Million Club research report.
  
  
• S3 Group and Broadcom Support BSkyB’s Set-Top Box Development (Monday Jul. 19, 2010)
  S3 Group today announced that it has collaborated with Sky on the development of its latest high-definition (HD), low-power set-top boxes (STBs), the DRX890 and the DRX895. These boxes include highly integrated and advanced STB technology from Broadcom Corporation.
  
  
• ASSET and IPextreme collaborate to enable ScanWorks as an IEEE 1149.7 test solution (Thursday Jul. 15, 2010)
  ASSET® InterTech will integrate test adapter intellectual property (IP) from IPextreme into its ScanWorks® platform for embedded instruments to enable chip and circuit board tests under the new IEEE 1149.7 reduced-pin boundary scan standard.
  
  
• LynxOS-SE Supports ARM Cortex-A8 on a TI OMAP 3 for Secure Mobile Applications (Tuesday Jul. 13, 2010)
  LynuxWorks today announced that its LynxOS-SE operating system supports the ARM Cortex-A8 processor, with the first port on the Texas Instruments OMAP 3 platform. Designed for portable and mobile applications, OMAP 3 is the first family of multimedia application processors to integrate the superscalar ARM Cortex-A8 processor.