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• ARM launches RVDS v4.1 and DSTREAM (Monday Jul. 12, 2010)
  ARM today announced the availability of ARM® RVDS™ v4.1 and ARM DSTREAM™ , a high-speed debug and trace unit that enables powerful software debugging.
  
  
• Wind River and LSI Collaborate to Deliver Optimized Multicore Solutions for Networking Infrastructure Industry (Monday Jul. 12, 2010)
  Wind River and LSI today announced a multi-year strategic collaboration to co-market optimized multicore hardware and software solutions. Tightly integrated solutions from the two companies will be offered for telecommunications and networking infrastructure customers by aligning long-term product roadmaps, sales and marketing, engineering resources and professional services.
  
  
• Texas Instruments continues to lead Bluetooth low energy technology advancements (Thursday Jul. 08, 2010)
  Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) announced full qualification of the Bluetooth low energy stack supporting the BlueLink™ and WiLink™ connectivity combo solutions. TI also achieved complete Bluetooth v4.0 controller qualification on the CC2540 low-power, single-mode system-on-chip (SoC) running both protocol stack and application software.
  
  
• Tensilica adds FLAC Decoder to HiFi Audio Codec Library (Wednesday Jun. 30, 2010)
  Tensilica today announced that it has added the Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) decoder to its ever-growing library of software for its HiFi Audio DSP family of IP (intellectual property) cores for SOC (system-on-chip) design. FLAC is an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless so the audio is compressed without any loss in quality.
  
  
• L&T Infotech to collaborate with BWCI on LTE Radio Access Test Bed development (Monday Jun. 28, 2010)
  L&T Infotech announced today their cooperation with Broadband Wireless Consortium of India (BWCI) for developing an LTE Radio Access Test Bed to create a technology demonstrator platform, to further research in LTE area, and accelerate the time-to-market for LTE technology providers.
  
  
• MontaVista Software Delivers First Commercial Linux for ARM Cortex-A9 Processors (Wednesday Jun. 23, 2010)
  MontaVista® Software announced the availability of the first commercial Linux distribution and toolchain optimized for the ARM Cortex™-A9 processor. Based on the revolutionary MontaVista Linux 6 (MVL6) approach, it provides a market specific distribution (MSD) and toolchain designed specifically for the Cortex-A9 architecture and provides the perfect starting point for new product designs using the low power, high performance characteristics of the ARM Cortex-A9 processor.
  
  
• Virage Logic Releases Major Update of the Open Source GNU and Linux Toolchains for Its ARC Processor Cores (Wednesday Jun. 23, 2010)
  Virage Logic today announced it is investing in its ARC processor product portfolio by releasing the ARC GNU 2.3 Toolchain for its complete range of ARC processor cores and the ARC Linux 1.3 Operating System for its ARC® 750D processor.
  
  
• Freescale announces Kinetis - one of the most scalable portfolios of mixed signal ARM Cortex-M4 microcontrollers in the industry (Tuesday Jun. 22, 2010)
  Freescale Semiconductor today announced the Kinetis family of 90 nanometer (nm) 32-bit MCUs based on the new ARM® Cortex-M4 processor. Complementing Freescale’s recently announced 90nm ColdFire+ MCU line, Kinetis represents one of the most scalable portfolios of low power, mixed signal ARM Cortex-M4 processor-based MCUs in the industry.
  
  
• Freescale extends QorIQ family with quad-core P3 platform optimized for low power (Tuesday Jun. 22, 2010)
  Freescale Semiconductor is expanding the performance range of its QorIQ™ communications processor product lines with the introduction of the quad-core QorIQ P3 platform. The new P3041 processor offers an advanced feature set leveraging Freescale’s P4 platform technology and optimized for low power, enabling increased system performance and improved overall power consumption.
  
  
• Mentor Graphics Announces Commercial Linux Platform for Freescale Semiconductor's Processors Based on Power Architecture Technology; Support for New QorIQ P3 and P5 Platform (Tuesday Jun. 22, 2010)
  Mentor Graphics today announced its commercial Mentor Embedded™Linux® platform supporting Freescale Semiconductor, resulting from the recent strategic alliance signed between Freescale and Mentor for embedded Linux technology.
  
  
• Cognovo launches Software Defined Modem solution for LTE handsets (Monday Jun. 21, 2010)
  Cognovo today announces its Software Defined Modem (SDM) platform designed to significantly reduce cost, size and design complexity for developers of cellular handsets and other wireless enabled consumer electronic products. The SDM platform is already under evaluation at leading handset OEMs.
  
  
• EC Funds Green Cloud Services Project Investigating Use of ARM Architecture in Data Centers (Monday Jun. 21, 2010)
  ARM today announced it is leading a Green Cloud Services project called EuroCloud. The research project aims to validate the value proposition of constructing data center platforms using a combination of low power processing and 3D chip packaging solutions to deliver a significant improvement in cost- and energy-efficiency compared to the approach utilized in incumbent server platforms.
  
  
• Wind River Adds Support for Microsoft Windows XP to Its Embedded Virtualization Offering (Monday Jun. 21, 2010)
  Wind River today announced support for Microsoft Windows XP as a guest operating system for Wind River Hypervisor on Intel®-based platforms.
  
  
• ARM Accelerates Software Development on Hardware Assisted Verification Systems with VSTREAM (Wednesday Jun. 09, 2010)
  ARM today announced the availability of the ARM® VSTREAM™ virtual debug interface; a fast and flexible virtual link that connects software debuggers to hardware assisted verification systems. VSTREAM enables more efficient software development in the early stages of system design, improving the utilization of hardware resources and reducing project risk and time-to-market for new ARM processor-based devices.
  
  
• NXP, STMicroelectronics, Trusted Logic and Stollmann to Promote Hardware-Independent NFC API for Android (Tuesday Jun. 01, 2010)
  STMicroelectronics and NXP today announced that the companies are to promote a common hardware-independent API (Application Programming Interface) for NFC (Near Field Communication) applications on mobile phones and other devices running Android™.
  
  
• Tuxera exFAT Now Available for Android and Linux (Tuesday Jun. 01, 2010)
  Tuxera today announced the release of Tuxera exFAT for Android and other Linux systems. Developed using technical documentation provided by Microsoft Corp., Tuxera exFAT provides outstanding performance and stability, and meets the latest SDXC memory card standards.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Announces Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) Support for Android Platform on MIPS-Based SoCs (Tuesday Jun. 01, 2010)
  MIPS Technologies announced symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) support for the Android platform running on MIPS-Based multicore SoCs. Now MIPS licensees using MIPS32® multi-threaded and multiprocessor cores can bring rich web and multimedia content to smartphones with the Android platform.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies and SySDSoft Announce First LTE Protocol Stack on Android Platform (Tuesday Jun. 01, 2010)
  MIPS Technologies and SySDSoft today announced the industry's first LTE protocol stack ported to the Android platform.
  
  
• Myriad Group and MIPS Technologies Accelerate Android Application Performance up to 5x (Tuesday Jun. 01, 2010)
  MIPS Technologies and Myriad Group today announced availability of a high-performance full method-based Dalvik Turbo virtual machine (VM) optimized for the MIPS® architecture.
  
  
• Android 2.2 Demonstrates Significant Investment in Support of the ARM Architecture (Thursday May. 27, 2010)
  In conjunction with their annual Google I/O event, Google has announced the next release of the Android 2.2 platform. This latest release includes a large number of significant enhancements that further exploit the underlying ARM® architecture to improve performance and functionality.
  
  
• Wind River to Launch Updated Simics Virtual Systems Development Solution (Wednesday May. 26, 2010)
  Wind River today announced Wind River Simics 4.4, a virtual systems development solution that allows engineers to define, develop, and deploy their product using a virtual representation of their target hardware.
  
  
• Virage Logic Expands Suite of Certified, Fully Optimized Audio Codecs, Underscoring Its Investment in ARC(R) Processors (Tuesday May. 25, 2010)
  Virage Logic today announced an expanded suite of certified, fully-optimized audio codecs that provide users with a robust and complete solution for a broad range of System-on-Chip (SoC) audio applications. The codecs are available for the AS 211SFX with dual MAC (Multiplier/Accumulator), the industry's smallest and lowest power audio digital signal processor (DSP), and have been fully certified and thoroughly tested.
  
  
• VeriSilicon Licenses Sorenson Spark Video Decoder for Inclusion in Libraries, Core Chipset for Mobile Devices (Tuesday May. 25, 2010)
  Sorenson Media and VeriSilicon today announced that VeriSilicon has licensed the Sorenson Spark Software Developers Kit (SDK) to enhance the company's online video design platform. VeriSilicon will include the Sorenson Spark decoder in its libraries and core chipset for use in mobile devices.
  
  
• Imperas Eases Embedded Software Development With Mentor Graphics Nucleus RTOS and EDGE Development Tools (Monday May. 24, 2010)
  Imperas today announced a flow with Mentor Graphics focused on enabling more productive and higher quality embedded software development with the Mentor Graphics® Nucleus Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) and the Mentor Embedded™ software tools.
  
  
• Rohde & Schwarz and Blue Wonder Communications to jointly test LTE-FDD and TD-LTE functionality (Thursday May. 20, 2010)
  Rohde & Schwarz and Blue Wonder Communications team up on LTE testing. The companies are determined to combine their key know-how and experience to provide leading edge LTE solutions for a fast deployment of LTE worldwide.
  
  
• Chip makers back Google's open source codec (Thursday May. 20, 2010)
  A handful of mobile chip makers--including ARM, MIPS, Nvidia and Texas Instruments--said they will support Google's move to establish V8, a video codec it acquired with On2 Technologies in August.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Announces Support for WebM Project (Wednesday May. 19, 2010)
  MIPS Technologies today announced support for the new WebM open web media project and the open source VP8, a high performance video codec that will bring high-quality video content and experiences to web-connected devices.
  
  
• VeriSilicon Announces Support for WebM on ZSP Digital Signal Processor Cores and SoC Platforms (Wednesday May. 19, 2010)
  VeriSilicon today announced support for WebM including the VP8 video decoder on its licensable ZSP Digital Signal Processor Cores and SoC Platforms that will help its customers decode WebM content on ZSP based platforms.
  
  
• Marvell plans 40-nm ARM server processors (Tuesday May. 11, 2010)
  Marvell Technology Group Ltd. aims to supply silicon for ARM-based servers with 40-nm multicore processors it will ship this year and is working with multiple partners including one that hopes to port a server version of Microsoft Windows to ARM.
  
  
• Texas Instruments launches DaVinci(TM) DMVA2 video processor, the first megapixel IP camera SoC with smart analytics (Tuesday May. 11, 2010)
  DMVA2 SoC enables cost effective video analytics making this a de facto feature on megapixel IP cameras for intelligent video surveillance