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• Teleca and Imagination Technologies bring Adobe Flash Platform to life (Friday Feb. 12, 2010)
  Teleca today announced collaboration with Imagination Technologies. The two companies are working together to create a range of optimized demonstration platforms for Flash and Flash Lite including optimizations for OpenVG 1.1 and OpenGL ES 2.0 using Imagination’s POWERVR SGX and VGX graphics IP cores.
  
  
• Anite, Blue Wonder and 4M Wireless Showcase LTE Interoperability (Thursday Feb. 11, 2010)
  Anite will demonstrate its latest LTE developments at Mobile World Congress this year. These demonstrations include LTE FDD, and TD-LTE test solutions in collaboration with the Blue Wonder Communications LTE baseband solution, which incorporates the LTE protocol stack provided by 4M Wireless.
  
  
• IPextreme and Lauterbach Announce Interoperability of Lauterbach's Trace32 Debug System and IPextreme's IEEE 1149.7 cJTAG Semiconductor IP (Wednesday Feb. 10, 2010)
  IPextreme and Lauterbach today announced complete interoperability between Lauterbach's Trace32 debug systems and IPextreme's IEEE 1149.7 cJTAG semiconductor IP core.
  
  
• Texas Instruments leads adoption of IEEE 1149.7 standard for improved JTAG functionality (Wednesday Feb. 10, 2010)
  The ratification of the new IEEE 1149.7™ test and debug standard represents a major expansion and improvement of JTAG functionality. TI led the IEEE working group in the definition and adoption of the new two-pin IEEE 1149.7 standard, which improves debug capabilities and power constraints for system-on-chip (SoC) architectures.
  
  
• TES announces the availability of MAGiK : An OMAP based Graphics and Media application platform (Wednesday Feb. 10, 2010)
  TES today announced the availability of MAGiK, a media and graphics innovation kit. MAGiK is an open platform for rapid application and product development ideal for applications such as home automation, entertainment systems in transportation and industrial displays.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies and SySDSoft Partner to Enable LTE on MIPS Architecture (Wednesday Feb. 10, 2010)
  MIPS Technologies and SySDSoft Inc., a leading supplier of Mobile WiMAX and LTE embedded software solutions for 4G, today announced they are teaming to enable LTE on the MIPS® architecture.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies and Mavrix Technology Collaborate on Mobile SoC Development (Wednesday Feb. 10, 2010)
  MIPS Technologies and Mavrix Technology announced they are working together to develop a MIPS-Based applications processor for mobile devices.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Partners with Intrinsyc Software to Bring 3.5G Telephony to the MIPS Architecture (Wednesday Feb. 10, 2010)
  MIPS Technologies and Intrinsyc Software today announced they are working together to bring 3.5G functionality to the MIPS® architecture. The companies are porting Intrinsyc's RapidRIL software to the MIPS architecture in order to accelerate mobile SoC development for MIPS licensees around the globe.
  
  
• Tensilica and mimoOn Partner for LTE Baseband Handset Solutions (Wednesday Feb. 10, 2010)
  
  
  
• Mymo Wireless Technology announces the release of the MW1000 LTE Air-interface and Protocol Stack (Wednesday Feb. 10, 2010)
  Mymo Wireless Technology announces the release of the MW1000 LTE Air-interface and Protocol Stack. The Mymo Wireless MW1000 LTE Air-interface and Protocol Stack is a 3GPP LTE Release 8 compliant User Equipment (UE) with frequency and time domain duplexing features covering all transmission modes up to 2x2 in downlink and 1x1 in uplink as per category 1, 2 and 3
  
  
• S3 Group and Texas Instruments Deliver First Continua Certified Platform for Faster Development of Telehealth Devices (Wednesday Feb. 10, 2010)
  TI and S3 Group today announced the availability of the first Continua Certified™ USB-enabled platform for building agent healthcare devices. The platform consists of TI’s ultra-low power MSP430 microcontroller (MCU) and S3 Group’s Embedded Agent Stack (EAS) – an 11073 PAN device (agent) stack, which has been optimized for resource constrained platforms.
  
  
• Cortus APS3 CPU family now has full support from Lauterbach TRACE32 Power Tools (Tuesday Feb. 09, 2010)
  Lauterbach and Cortus announce that the Lauterbach TRACE32® Power Tools now fully support the Cortus APS3 family of processors.
  
  
• Tatvik Announces High Performance Video Codecs Optimized For Cortex-A8 Using ARM NEON Technology (Monday Feb. 08, 2010)
  Tatvik Technologies has started providing software video codecs optimized for Cortex-A8 using ARM NEON technology. This is in addition to company’s existing efficient and world leading video codec solutions on ARM9 and ARM11 processors.
  
  
• Tensilica Introduces ConnX Atlas Reference Architecture for LTE (Monday Feb. 08, 2010)
  Tensilica today introduced its ConnX Atlas LTE (Long-Term Evolution) reference platform, a heterogeneous seven-core reference architecture for a complete multi-standard programmable radio for advanced mobile devices. Atlas is designed to support the 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) LTE standard, as well as other complementary standards such as HSPA+ (Evolved High-Speed Packet Access), in a single platform.
  
  
• Wind River to Add Virtutech Simics Products to Comprehensive Embedded Software Portfolio (Friday Feb. 05, 2010)
  Wind River, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation, today announced it will add the Virtutech product line to its embedded software product portfolio after the completion of Intel Corporation's acquisition of Virtutech signed earlier this week.
  
  
• Wind River Delivers Suite of Multi-architecture Embedded Software Development Tools (Wednesday Feb. 03, 2010)
  Enhanced Tools Span Development Cycles Across Multiple Runtime Environments and Support Latest Multicore Processor Technology
  
  
• Cambridge Consultants gives developers head start in Bluetooth product design with DEVA (Wednesday Feb. 03, 2010)
  Cambridge Consultants has today launched DEVA™, the most comprehensive development platform for the rapid development of highly differentiated Bluetooth™ products and mobile accessories.
  
  
• Giesecke & Devrient and ARM Protect Mobile Applications From Data Theft (Wednesday Feb. 03, 2010)
  Through the combination of ARM®TrustZone® technology, which creates a protected area in advanced systems-on-chip, and the highly-secure Mobicore operating system developed by G&D, sensitive applications such as electronic payment and online banking via mobile phone will be efficiently protected from security threats. As a first step the two companies will develop a joint prototype.
  
  
• Macraigor Systems Extends On-Chip Debug Support to Intel’s Atom Processor (Tuesday Feb. 02, 2010)
  Macraigor Systems has expanded their proprietary On-Chip Debug Technology (OCDemon) to support the newest x86 processor, the Intel Atom. OCDemon offers an optimized interface to these on-chip resources via a choice of communication channels.
  
  
• RF Engines Ltd (RFEL) launches highly configurable, multichannel RF signal generator (Tuesday Feb. 02, 2010)
  RFEL has developed a highly sophisticated, 32 channel RF signal generator that is designed to enable challenging RF environments to be recreated in labs to test RF equipment. RFEL's world class expertise in RF and signal processing has enabled them to create a complete solution on a Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA chip than is run within a PC on a PCI-express card
  
  
• Cypress and Keil Team Up to Deliver High-Performance Compiler Options for Cypress's New PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 Architectures (Monday Feb. 01, 2010)
  Designers Can Choose Free Compiler Included in Cypress’s PSoC Creator™ IDE As well as Optimized Compiler Support in the Keil µVision®4 IDE
  
  
• Lauterbach, Discretix Announce Alliance To Provide Secure Chip Debug Capability (Monday Jan. 25, 2010)
  Discretix and Lauterbach today announced a technology alliance that leverages the power of Lauterbach’s TRACE32® PowerTools and the security of Discretix’ Secure JTAG (SJTAG) Debug Module.
  
  
• Open Kernel Labs Enhances ARM Solution Center for Android With OK:Android (Thursday Jan. 14, 2010)
  OK Labs today announced its participation in the ARM Solution Center for Android, a collaborative resource for designers and developers of ARM technology-based products running on Android, the open-source platform from the Open Handset Alliance™.
  
  
• MapuSoft Extends Support to Android, Enabling Legacy Code Reuse on the Mobile Platform (Monday Jan. 11, 2010)
  MapuSoft Technologies today announced that its products, the OS Changer Porting Kit and the OS Abstractor Development Kit now support Android™.
  
  
• Tuxera NTFS for Windows CE Announced (Monday Jan. 11, 2010)
  Microsoft Windows CE has not supported the default Windows file system NTFS so far. The solution is here. Tuxera is the first company to develop an NTFS file system for Windows CE. The new product is offered to consumer electronics and car manufacturers who run Windows CE and need to communicate with Windows PCs or external hard disk drives.
  
  
• Discretix Announces Embedded Security Solutions for Media Phones (Friday Jan. 08, 2010)
  Essential for open source platforms, Discretix’ CryptoCell enables software updates, data storage and debugging to be performed securely, ensuring that the media phone is trusted to deliver advanced services to homes and businesses.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Leverages Yahoo! TV Widgets for MIPS-Based DTV Platforms (Thursday Jan. 07, 2010)
  MIPS will develop an optimized reference platform running the Yahoo! Widget Engine for digital TV and set-top box applications. Leveraging this reference implementation, MIPS® licensees will be able to quickly develop devices incorporating Yahoo! TV Widgets.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Brings Android "Home" with Demos of World's First Android Set-top Boxes; New Partners and Key Technology Milestones (Tuesday Jan. 05, 2010)
  MIPS today announced a compelling lineup of demonstrations, partnerships and technologies aimed at making Android a viable platform for digital home devices such as set-top boxes, Blu-ray Disc players, DTVs and VoIP solutions.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Collaborates with Adobe to Optimize Flash Player 10.1 for MIPS Architecture (Tuesday Jan. 05, 2010)
  MIPS today announced it is participating in the Open Screen Project, an industry-wide initiative led by Adobe to enable the delivery of rich Internet experiences across mobile phones, televisions, set-top boxes, and other consumer electronics and devices through the Adobe® Flash® Platform.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies and Partners Accelerate SoC Design for Android-Based Devices (Tuesday Jan. 05, 2010)
  MIPS Technologies today announced it is working with leading providers of key IP for the connected digital home to help SoC developers get to market quickly with fully-integrated hardware/software solutions. MIPS is working closely with Chips & Media, Discretix, Tensilica, Vivante Corp. and other leading providers of semiconductor IP to help customers meet cost/performance targets with solutions that optimize performance for devices based in particular on the Android™ platform.