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• ASMedia and MCCI Partner for Reliable SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Products (Monday Jan. 04, 2010)
  ASMedia and MCCI jointly announce their collaboration on SuperSpeed USB 3.0 products. ASMedia is delivering its ASM1051 USB 3.0 device to MCCI for supporting MCCI's USB 3.0 software development efforts, which can be made available to customers as a fully-tested, integrated solution.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies and Tensilica Team to Accelerate SOC Design Activity on Android(TM) Platform; Plan Joint Demos at CES (Thursday Dec. 17, 2009)
  MIPS Technologies and Tensilica today announced they are working together to accelerate SOC (system-on-chip) design activity on the popular Android platform. Together, MIPS and Tensilica will help companies speed the design of new home entertainment and mobile consumer products based on Android.
  
  
• Aptina and eASIC Announce High Definition H.264 Reference Design (Wednesday Dec. 16, 2009)
  Aptina and eASIC today announced the immediate availability of a H.264 High Definition (HD) reference design that is capable of supporting up to 720p/30fps rates. The HD H.264 reference design is built using Aptina’s MT9D131 HD image sensor with eASIC’s eDV9200 low cost HD H.264 CODEC.
  
  
• Macraigor Systems Provides On-Chip Debug Solutions with Eclipse Ganymede/Galileo Platform and Full GNU Toolset Support for ARM Cortex-A8 Processors (Wednesday Dec. 16, 2009)
  Macraigor Systems has ported their proprietary On-Chip Debug Technology (OCDemon), GNU Tools Suite and Eclipse Ganymede/Galileo platform to the ARM Cortex-A8 processor.
  
  
• New Algorithmic Acceleration System Features a Baker's Dozen of the Next Generation Spartan 6 FPGAs (Tuesday Dec. 15, 2009)
  The DINI Group Introduces the DNBFC_S12_PCIe featuring 13 of the largest low-cost Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGAs. This board provides unmatched price/performance ratios for FPGA-based hardware-in-the-loop acceleration. The board is hosted in a standard 4-lane GEN1/GEN2 PCIe slot and can provide data transfer rates to 1Gbyte/sec.
  
  
• Wind River Launches Commercial Android Platform (Monday Dec. 07, 2009)
  Wind River today announced the immediate availability of its commercial version of open source Android optimized on the OMAP™ 3 platform from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI). The Wind River Platform for Android is a validated, fully compliant software platform based on the latest versions of the Android software development kit (SDK), available with pre-integrated software from initial partners Adobe, PacketVideo and Red Bend Software; and global support by Wind River.
  
  
• K-micro and Anritsu collaborate to develop first test tool and methodology to analyze 10G EPON chips (Monday Dec. 07, 2009)
  Successful test of K-micro’s CTXL1 10G EPON SerDes chip using Anritsu's Signal Quality Analyzer, MP1800A, paves the way for 10G EPON systems to be shipped
  
  
• Tensilica Announces Enhanced Tools for Dataplane Processor Design and Software Development (Monday Dec. 07, 2009)
  Tensilica Inc. today announced its eighth generation tools that further automate customized Xtensa dataplane processor (DPU) design and speed software development. Improvements cover improved compiler technology, better multi-core system simulation and profiling, an upgraded integrated development environment (IDE), and pin-level co-simulation with RTL.
  
  
• Ittiam Unveils 60ms Ultra Low-Latency Streaming Systems for High Definition Video (Thursday Dec. 03, 2009)
  Ittiam Systems announced its suite of ultra low-latency streaming systems that can deliver an end-to-end latency as low as 60 ms for high definition video. Designed to cater to a wide range of real-time communication and fast response interactive video applications, these systems deliver full frame rate, high quality video at very low latencies.
  
  
• Viosoft Announces Android Adoption Kit for MIPS-Based™ Digital Multimedia Designs (Thursday Dec. 03, 2009)
  Viosoft Corporation today announced availability of the Android Adoption Kit for MIPS-Based digital multimedia designs, continuing the push of Android on MIPS® solutions into the digital home and beyond.
  
  
• MindTree's Real-Time Video Stitching Algorithm Enhances Field of View (Wednesday Dec. 02, 2009)
  MindTree today unveiled its real-time video stitching algorithm, which is part of its intelligent video surveillance solution. The patent-pending algorithm can stitch videos from up to four co-located cameras placed either horizontally or vertically in real time.
  
  
• SH-Mobile Application Engine 4 breaks into GHz realm to open up an entirely new user experience and set the pace for true multimedia convergence (Monday Nov. 30, 2009)
  Renesas Technology Corp. today announced that it is sampling the SH-Mobile Application Engine 4 (SH73720), an ARM® Cortex™-A8 *1 based application engine running at maximum 1GHz, targeted for next generation mobile phone and mobile device implementations.
  
  
• Virage Logic Announces the Availability of Sonic Focus Adaptive Volume(TM) for Personal Computers, Digital Televisions, Game Consoles and Telephony Products (Monday Nov. 30, 2009)
  Virage Logic today announced the availability of its new Sonic Focus Adaptive Volume audio volume normalizing software. Adaptive Volume normalizes audio levels of movies and music to reduce the need for frequent volume adjustments by the consumer and thereby enhances audio performance in consumer electronics.
  
  
• Mentor Graphics Delivers Optimized Android Development System for the OMAP35x Processors from Texas Instruments (Wednesday Nov. 18, 2009)
  Mentor Graphics today announced its delivery of the Android Development System for the Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) OMAP35x processors based on ARM® Cortex™-A8 technology.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Announces Availability of Arriba for Android Porting Kit (Wednesday Nov. 18, 2009)
  MIPS Technologies today announced availability of the Arriba for Android Porting Kit (APK) for its industry-standard MIPS® architecture.
  
  
• ARM Launches Solution Center to Foster Innovation and Speed Development of Android-Powered Devices (Tuesday Nov. 17, 2009)
  As part of its continued work to foster innovation and openness in connected devices, ARM today announced the Solution Center for Android™, a resource for designers and developers of ARM® technology-based products running on Android, the open source platform from the Open Handset Alliance™.
  
  
• Broadcom Offers Royalty-Free, Open Source BroadVoice Wideband and Narrowband Voice Codecs to Enhance the Quality of Voice Transmissions (Friday Nov. 13, 2009)
  Broadcom today announced that it is offering its BroadVoice® family of voice codecs royalty-free and without any licensing fees.
  
  
• Ittiam Systems Eases Access to Best-in-Class Multimedia Software with Audio and Video Codecs for Mobile Internet Solutions on the latest ARM Cortex-A5 processor (Thursday Nov. 05, 2009)
  keeping with its focus of providing best-in-class audio and video codecs and solutions to the embedded world, Ittiam Systems, a member of the ARM® Connected Community™, today announced the availability of a set of high-quality and high-performance audio and video codecs for the ARM® Cortex™-A5 processor powered by the NEON™ multimedia processing engine.
  
  
• LTE UE Stack from L&T Infotech Accelerates Availability of LTE Terminal Devices (Wednesday Nov. 04, 2009)
  L&T Infotech has developed LTE protocol stack, leveraging its vast experience in wireless technologies like CDMA, UMTS, EVDO, WLAN and WiMAX.
  
  
• Sundance Features New Texas Instruments TMS320C6472 Multicore DSP in its EVP6472 Development Platform (Tuesday Nov. 03, 2009)
  Sundance today extended its leadership in multiprocessor solutions through the introduction of its EVP6472 embedded development platform. The EVP6472 is the industry’s first off-the-shelf multiprocessor, multicore solution that features dual Texas Instruments (TI) TMS320C6472 Digital Signal Processors (DSPs).
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Submits Code for Tamarin Open Source Project (Thursday Oct. 29, 2009)
  MIPS Technologies today announced it has released a MIPS®-optimized version of the ActionScript virtual machine (VM) that is used in compelling Web-connected technologies such as Adobe® Flash® Player.
  
  
• Ittiam's Video Communication Offering Now Even Broader, Available on Three Platforms for Next-Generation Applications (Thursday Oct. 29, 2009)
  Ittiam today announced the availability of its new Video Communication System on three Texas Instruments (TI) devices. Together, these platforms cover performance from CIF to High Definition (HD) video for applications ranging from SD-class desk phones, low power VGA-class media phones with HD media play-out, to HD conferencing for peer-to-peer or multi-party scenarios.
  
  
• New Qualcomm Subsidiary to Focus on Mobile Open Source Development (Monday Oct. 26, 2009)
  Qualcomm today announced that it has established a separate wholly-owned subsidiary, Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. (QuIC), focused on mobile open source platforms
  
  
• Timesys Delivers a Comprehensive, Low-cost Linux Solution for Altera's Nios II Embedded Processor (Thursday Oct. 22, 2009)
  Timesys today announced the availability of a suite of Linux products and services supporting Altera Corporation’s Nios® II embedded processor.
  
  
• ARM and Mentor Graphics Announce Support for Nucleus RTOS and Nucleus Graphics in the RealView Development Suite (Wednesday Oct. 21, 2009)
  Mentor and ARM today announced a comprehensive software development solution for Nucleus® RTOS and Nucleus Graphics on ARM® processors.
  
  
• LnK announces a New Interactive Traffic Generator for SLIMbus (Tuesday Oct. 20, 2009)
  LnK today announced its new SLIMbus Interactive Traffic Generator. The Interactive Traffic Generator handles automatic response to incoming messages, automatic updates of the Guide Byte and arbitrates on Message Channel when necessary.
  
  
• Mercury Computer Systems Announces Broad Range of Products Compliant With New V1.0 OpenVPX Specification (Monday Oct. 19, 2009)
  Mercury Computer today announced availability of a broad range of OpenVPX products, which are designed to be compliant with the new V1.0 OpenVPX and draft VITA 65 Specifications.
  
  
• IAR Systems launches development tools for ARM Cortex-R4(F) processor (Friday Oct. 16, 2009)
  IAR Systems today announced comprehensive support for ARM® Cortex-R4(F) processor in version 5.40 of IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM.
  
  
• Trusted Logic releases NFC Protocol Stack for Android (Thursday Oct. 15, 2009)
  Trusted Logic, the leading provider of Trusted Execution Environments for embedded systems, today announces the launch of its TRUSTED NFC software platform for Google Android operating system.
  
  
• MindTree Introduces Bluetooth Health Device Solution on Android Platform (Thursday Oct. 15, 2009)
  MindTree today announced the launch of its Bluetooth health device solution on the Android platform.