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• MindTree to Unveil the Largest Portfolio of "Ready-to-Brand" Video Surveillance Solutions at IFSEC 2010 (Wednesday May. 05, 2010)
  MindTree announced that it will unveil the largest portfolio of ready-to-brand video surveillance solutions. MindTree's portfolio of ready-to-brand solutions consists of a surveillance manager, a suite of video analytics solutions, a video encoder, video decoder and digital video recorder. The portfolio also includes a licensable Open Network Video Interface Forum (ONVIF) Network Transmitter Agent (NVT) and ONVIF Network Video Client (NVC).
  
  
• CriticalBlue and Freescale collaborate to streamline and simplify multicore software development (Wednesday Apr. 28, 2010)
  CriticalBlue and Freescale Semiconductor have collaborated to make CriticalBlue’s Prism development environment available to support Freescale’s QorIQ multicore processor families.
  
  
• DOCOMO, Renesas Electronics, Fujitsu, NEC, Panasonic Mobile Communications and Sharp to Develop Mobile Application Platform (Monday Apr. 26, 2010)
  NTT DOCOMO, INC., Renesas Electronics Corporation, Fujitsu Limited, NEC Corporation, Panasonic Mobile Communications Co., Ltd. and Sharp Corporation today announced their agreement to jointly develop a new application platform for mobile phones that will be compatible with both the Symbian and Linux operating systems.
  
  
• CebaTech Launches New CebaFlex FPGA-Based Board-Level Protocol Acceleration Subsystems (Monday Apr. 26, 2010)
  CebaTech has announced the launch of its CebaFlex™ series of PCI Express®-enabled subsystem boards that boost protocol processing performance in data networking and enterprise storage systems by up to 10X.
  
  
• Lauterbach To Provide Best-In-Class Debugging Tools and Support for Timesys Embedded Linux (Monday Apr. 26, 2010)
  Timesys and Lauterbach today announced a strategic partnership that enables software developers and system architects to easily and quickly develop embedded Linux products.
  
  
• Mentor Graphics Announces Multicore Solutions for Symmetric and Asymmetric Multiprocessing (Thursday Apr. 22, 2010)
  Mentor Graphics today announced the Mentor Embedded™ Nucleus® SMP (Symmetric Multiprocessing) technology and support for the Multicore Communications Application Programming Interface (MCAPI) standard for inter-processor communication (IPC), established by the Multicore Association.
  
  
• RTXC RTOS Supports High-Performance ARM Cortex-A8 Core (Wednesday Apr. 21, 2010)
  Quadros Systems today announced support for the Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) OMAP™ 3 platform, which features an ARM Cortex-A8 architecture from ARM Ltd. Developers can now combine the efficiency and scalability of RTXC software family with the performance and energy efficiency of OMAP35x processors.
  
  
• Human Monitoring Leverages Texas Instruments Processors to Deliver Enhanced Video Quality, Performance to Broadcast and Video Infrastructure Manufacturers (Thursday Apr. 15, 2010)
  Human Monitoring announced today that Texas Instruments is collaborating with HM for further enhancement of its high quality H.264 encoders for the broadcast market.
  
  
• Express Logic ThreadX Available for Tensilica's New Third-Generation Diamond Standard Dataplane Processor Cores (Wednesday Apr. 14, 2010)
  Tensilica and Express Logic today announced that Express Logic's ThreadX real-time operating system (RTOS) is now available for Tensilica's new third-generation Diamond Standard dataplane processor (DPU) cores. A free demo download of the ThreadX RTOS is available on the Tensilica web site.
  
  
• RT-RK Delivers IP Solution for Android Devices -- Porting Android on DTVs and STBs (Tuesday Apr. 13, 2010)
  RT-RK, a provider of embedded system design and system software development in the field of consumer electronics, today announced successful porting of a big-endian version of the Android(TM) platform for the MIPS(R) architecture.
  
  
• Beceem & M-Skylink Launch "Retail-Ready" 4G-WiMAX Platform (Monday Apr. 12, 2010)
  M-Skylink and Beceem today announced the launch of a “retail-ready” USB reference design platform that can be used for fast development of 4G-WiMAX USB modems that are targeting the retail or wholesale market.
  
  
• NXP to Demonstrate New Class of DSC Based on ARM Cortex-M4 (Monday Apr. 12, 2010)
  NXP Semiconductors today announced that it will demonstrate working silicon of its newest microcontrollers based on the ARM® Cortex™-M4 processor at ESC Silicon Valley 2010. NXP is one of the first ARM partners to license the Cortex-M4 processor, a highly efficient solution for digital signal control applications, and is the first to demonstrate working silicon.
  
  
• S3 Group Accelerates Latest Pace Mediaroom IPTV Set-Top Box Platform to Market (Monday Apr. 12, 2010)
  Further to S3 Group’s selection by Microsoft to provide set-top-box (STB) testing services for Microsoft Mediaroom STBs, the company today announced that is has successfully completed testing the recently launched Mediaroom STB platform from Pace, the leading developer of digital TV technologies for the pay-TV industry.
  
  
• Tuxera NTFS empowers systems with Freescale PowerQUICC integrated communications processors (Wednesday Apr. 07, 2010)
  Tuxera, the market leading NTFS and exFAT file system solution provider today announced support for Freescale’s PowerQUICC communications processors family. Freescale’s processors are used in home in media servers and high-speed network-attached storage (NAS) systems.
  
  
• CriticalBlue and MIPS Technologies Enable Software Developers to Quantify Benefits of Migrating to MIPS32-Based Multicore Platforms (Wednesday Mar. 31, 2010)
  New Prism capabilities support MIPS® architectural detail to accelerate users’ ability to select, use and deploy most appropriate multicore/multithreaded platform
  
  
• EnSilica launches major new version of its eSi-RISC Development Suite (Monday Mar. 29, 2010)
  EnSilica has launched a major new version of its eSi-RISC Development Suite. The eSi-RISC Development Suite v2.1 provides a comprehensive platform for easily evaluating EnSilica’s family of eSi-RISC highly configurable and low-power soft processor cores, along with a complete development environment for the creation, implementation and test of eSi-RISC processor embedded application designs.
  
  
• Mindspeed Achieves LTE Standards Compliance for Transcede Reference Software Using Agilent Technologies' SystemVue Environment (Monday Mar. 22, 2010)
  Mindspeed today announced that the company’s reference software for its recently introduced Transcede™ baseband processor has been verified for compliance with the latest long-term evolution (LTE) Layer 1 standard 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) TS 36.141.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies and DMP Collaborate on Android(TM) Development for MIPS(R) Architecture (Wednesday Mar. 17, 2010)
  MIPS and DMP today announced that DMP has become a member of the MIPS Alliance Program for its Android™ on MIPS initiative. The alliance will ultimately enable SoC developers to create MIPS-Based™ SoCs with DMP PICA/SMAPH series graphics IP cores.
  
  
• Khronos Unleashes Cutting-Edge, Cross-Platform Graphics Acceleration with OpenGL 4.0 (Thursday Mar. 11, 2010)
  The Khronos™ Group today announced the release of the OpenGL® 4.0 specification; a significant update to the most widely adopted 2D and 3D graphics API (application programming interface) that is deployed on all major desktop operating systems.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Simplifies Android Application Development with Tools for the MIPS Architecture (Friday Mar. 05, 2010)
  MIPS Technologies today announced availability of advanced debug and development tools that simplify Android application development. These tools are free-of-charge through the Android on MIPS community.
  
  
• MindTree Releases ONVIF 1.01 Software Stack (Friday Mar. 05, 2010)
  MindTree today announced that its Open Network Video Interface Forum (ONVIF) Software Stack 1.01 i.e. the Network Video Transmitter (NVT) Agent and the Network Video Client (NVC) is available for licensing.
  
  
• ARM Launches DS-5 Development Tools For ARM Linux-Based Systems (Monday Mar. 01, 2010)
  ARM today announced the launch of the Keil™ Development Studio 5 (DS-5) Application Edition, a software development tool suite which simplifies the development of Linux and Android native applications for ARM® processor-based systems, reducing the learning curve and shortening the development and testing cycle.
  
  
• Ittiam Systems Unveils its Audio Processing Software for the ARM Cortex-M4 Processor (Tuesday Feb. 23, 2010)
  Ittiam today announced the availability of audio codecs and post-processing algorithms for the newly released ARM® Cortex™-M4 processor.
  
  
• Cortus Announces uCLinux for the APS3 Family of Processors (Tuesday Feb. 23, 2010)
  Cortus announces uCLinux for the APS3 family of processors. This version of Linux is suited to low power, high performance, embedded systems. The APS3 family of processors are modern, powerful processors, specifically designed for embedded systems, featuring a tiny silicon footprint.
  
  
• Imagination's POWERVR SGX540 Demonstrated in Texas Instruments' Latest OMAP 4 Platform (Tuesday Feb. 16, 2010)
  Imagination Technologies announces that its POWERVR SXG540 hardware 3D graphics acceleration technology is enabling class-leading graphics in the new OMAP™ 4 family of SoCs from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI).
  
  
• NXP's New 120 MHz ARM Cortex-M3 Microcontrollers Top DSP Benchmarks (Monday Feb. 15, 2010)
  NXP Semiconductors today announced availability of the LPC1769 and LPC1759 microcontrollers that operate at 120 MHz, the fastest ARM Cortex-M3 MCUs in the industry. At this level of performance, integration of microcontroller control and signal processing becomes a reality for cost constrained applications eliminating the need for dedicated DSP hardware.
  
  
• New multicore system-on-a-chip architecture from Texas Instruments to deliver 5X performance and simplified design for communications infrastructure equipment (Monday Feb. 15, 2010)
  TI today unveiled a new System-on-a-Chip (SoC) architecture based on its multicore digital signal processors (DSPs) that integrates fixed and floating point capabilities in the industry's highest performing CPU. Running at up to 1.2GHz and providing an engine with up to 256 GMACS and 128 GFLOPS, TI's new multicore SoCs deliver over five times the performance of existing solutions in the market.
  
  
• ST-Ericsson and ARM Enable Support for Android on Next-Generation Multicore Mobile Platforms (Monday Feb. 15, 2010)
  ST-Ericsson and ARM announced today their ongoing joint development to optimize Android to take advantage of Symmetric Multi Processing (SMP) when executing on the high-performance and power-efficient ST-Ericsson U8500 platform, which uses a dual-core ARM® Cortex™-A9 MPCore™ processor.
  
  
• Imagination Technologies and Adobe showcase the potential of a GPU accelerated Adobe Flash Player 10.1 mobile experience at MWC 2010 (Monday Feb. 15, 2010)
  Imagination Technologies is demonstrating the results of its collaboration with Adobe to optimise Flash Player 10.1 for mobile and embedded devices, utilising OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics acceleration, on application processors with POWERVR SGX GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) at MWC 2010.
  
  
• Ittiam Enables 720p High Definition Multimedia on Portable Devices With Smart Codecs on the Texas Instruments OMAP3 platform (Monday Feb. 15, 2010)
  Ittiam Systems today announced its range of smart video codecs with High Definition (HD) 720p performance for the mobile connected world.