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• Tata Elxsi and Tensilica Announce RoS-ES RTOS for Diamond Standard and Xtensa Customizable DPUs (Thursday Oct. 15, 2009)
  Tata Elxsi's RoS-ES (Real Time Operating System for Embedded Systems) operating system is now available for Xtensa customizable dataplane processors (DPUs) and Diamond Standard processors from Tensilica Inc., according to the two companies.
  
  
• NEC Electronics and KPIT Cummins Collaborate on New AUTOSAR 3.0-Compatible Solution (Tuesday Oct. 06, 2009)
  NEC Electronics and KPIT Cummins today announced the availability of an AUTOSAR 3.0-compatible software package for various hardware platforms.
  
  
• Atmel's SAM9G45 Evaluation Kit Expedites Development on 400MHz ARM9-based Embedded MPU (Monday Oct. 05, 2009)
  Atmel today announced the SAM9G45-EK evaluation kit to support application development on the company's 400 MHz ARM926™-based embedded microprocessor (MPU) with DDR2 memory
  
  
• ARM Announces Full Support for Adobe Flash Player 10.1 (Monday Oct. 05, 2009)
  ARM today announced they have delivered on the commitment to optimizing Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 on ARM®-powered devices as part of the Open Screen Project.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Welcomes New Ecosystem Partners for Android on MIPS Initiative (Wednesday Sep. 23, 2009)
  MIPS today welcomed two new companies to the ecosystem supporting its initiative to drive the revolutionary Android platform into a broad range of consumer electronic devices including set-top boxes, DTV, home media players, VoIP solutions and mobile internet devices (MIDs). Kat Digital Corp. (KatDC) and AllGo Systems are bringing unique multimedia technologies and expertise to bear on these efforts.
  
  
• ARM Makes Multi-Chip Debug Affordable In End Product (Wednesday Sep. 23, 2009)
  ARM has introduced multi-drop support into the ARM® CoreSight™ Serial Wire Debug (SWD) solution, enabling simultaneous connection to multiple devices from a single debug host.This latest version of SWD with multi-drop support brings a high performance and low cost 2-pin debug solution to complex, multi-core, multi-chip products such as mobile devices, making debug implementation more affordable in the end product.
  
  
• Imagination announces POWERVR Insider SDK 2.5 (Tuesday Sep. 22, 2009)
  Imagination Technologies has released version 2.5 of its industry leading POWERVR Insider SDK. The POWERVR Insider SDK is developers' preferred development environment for the creation of OpenGL ES 2.0 as well as OpenGL ES 1.1 and OpenVG applications. It includes a complete PC-based emulation environment, and is backed by Imagination's unrivalled technical support team.
  
  
• Arrow Electronics and Altera Place Soft-Core Processors at the Fingertips of Embedded Designers with BeMicro Evaluation Board (Tuesday Sep. 22, 2009)
  Arrow Electronics today announced its BeMicro evaluation board, a new low-cost and convenient way to demonstrate the use of soft-core processors in embedded, FPGA-based designs.
  
  
• ARM and NXP Launch mbed To Enable Rapid Prototyping With Microcontrollers (Monday Sep. 21, 2009)
  ARM has developed mbed, the industry's first online platform for fast, low-risk prototyping of microcontroller-based systems. The mbed tools launch with integral hardware and software support for the NXP LPC1768 ARM® Cortex™-M3 processor-based MCU, making cutting-edge microcontroller technology accessible to a wide audience.
  
  
• Wind River Adds CGL 4.0 Compliance for MIPS Architectures (Friday Sep. 18, 2009)
  Wind River today announced that Wind River Linux 3.0 for MIPS® architectures complies with the Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) 4.0 specification from the Linux Foundation, a critical requirement for the telecommunications and high-end data networking markets.
  
  
• Tata Elxsi & Wintegra collaborate to demonstrate LTE eNodeB reference solution (Tuesday Sep. 15, 2009)
  Tata Elxsi and Wintegra today announced the availability of 3GPP-LTE eNodeB on COTS platforms. The LTE eNodeB solution includes high performance L1 software on the Texas Instruments TCI6487 multi-core DSPs, integrated with Wintegra’s WinPath family of access packet processors and software for Layer 2/3.
  
  
• Toshiba announces availability of free and low-cost development tools for ARM microcontroller families (Monday Sep. 14, 2009)
  Atollic TrueSTUDIO® development environment options reduce cost and speed implementation of embedded systems based on Toshiba ARM926EJ-S™ and ARM Cortex™-M3 families
  
  
• NEC Electronics and Wind River Expand Collaboration on Linux Solutions for Portable Audio/Visual Devices Market (Thursday Sep. 10, 2009)
  Jointly Developed Linux-Based Software Development Kit for EMMA Mobile™ 1 Multimedia Processor
  
  
• Barco and Merging Technologies join efforts to present a HD JPEG 2000 Player & Ingester (Tuesday Sep. 08, 2009)
  Merging Technologies leverages Barco's JPEG 2000 PCIe acceleration cards to extend the capabilities of its VCube HD player and ingest system, bringing to the broadcast market the sweet-spot between JPEG 2000 quality and cost-effectiveness for HD archiving, ingest and playback.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies and Sigma Designs Bring Full HD Experience to Android Platform (Wednesday Aug. 26, 2009)
  MIPS and Sigma Designs today announced they are bringing a full high-definition (HD) experience to the Android platform.
  
  
• Chips&Media Licenses Sorenson Spark Video Decoder for Low Power Mobile Video Playback (Wednesday Aug. 26, 2009)
  Sorenson Media today announced that Chips&Media has licensed the Sorenson Spark Software Developers Kit (SDK) to include the Sorenson Spark video decoder in Chips&Media’s optimized video IP. Chips&Media video technology provides multi-standard video codec support for consumer multimedia devices, including mobile phones.
  
  
• Tata Elxsi's DSP Software Solutions Available for Tensilica's ConnX D2 DSP Engine (Wednesday Aug. 26, 2009)
  Tensilica announced that it has tested optimized C source code from Tata Elxsi's extensive DSP (digital signal processing) software library and the existing code - including code optimized with industry standard C intrinsics - ran flawlessly on Tensilica's new ConnX D2 DSP engine
  
  
• Cambridge Consultants introduces an enhanced xIDE for Interface Express software development environment for Bluetooth 2.1 (Thursday Aug. 20, 2009)
  Cambridge Consultants has released the latest version of its embedded Bluetooth application development toolkit which enables developers to create multi-profile Bluetooth 2.1 qualified products and accessories. xIDE for Interface Express applications run natively on a single BlueCore™ chip from CSR.
  
  
• Orchid Technologies Unveils A New Intel ATOM Processor Technology Core Design (Thursday Aug. 13, 2009)
  Orchid Technologies Engineering and Consulting, Inc., with our new ATOM processor technology core design, can combine your custom electronic hardware with an ATOM processor core.
  
  
• Ittiam Announces Feature-rich, Off-the-shelf Multi-Channel DVR System for Video Security Applications (Friday Aug. 07, 2009)
  Ittiam announces an off-the-shelf multi-channel digital video recorder (DVR) system based on the TMS320DM646x(TM) digital media processor from Texas Instruments (TI) for high quality and reliability applications in the video security industry
  
  
• ARC and SiTel cooperate to enhance DECT phone call clarity with Sonic Focus Audio Software (Tuesday Aug. 04, 2009)
  ARC and SiTel announced today a collaboration effort to provide superior voice clarity for phones implementing SiTel's high performance chips and ARC's new Vocal Clarity post-processing software. The improvements in voice clarity and audio fidelity represent a quantum step forward in voice communication.
  
  
• SP Devices Introduces High-Speed Solutions Featuring ADCs from National Semiconductor (Tuesday Aug. 04, 2009)
  Signal Processing Devices Sweden AB, a world-leading provider of signal processing technology for analog-to-digital conversion (ADC), today announced the introduction of two high-speed data acquisition boards featuring high-speed ADCs from National Semiconductor Corp., a leading provider of data conversion products.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Meets Key Milestone in Driving Android into the Digital Home (Monday Aug. 03, 2009)
  MIPS Technologies today announced it has met a key milestone in driving the AndroidTM platform beyond mobile handsets. Just two months after announcing its port of the Android platform to the MIPS® architecture, the company is making the source code publicly available.
  
  
• Socle Explores more Application Possibilities for Android (Monday Aug. 03, 2009)
  Socle Technology today announces its success of porting Android (v 1.5) operating system onto Socle's ARM-based SoC Platform solution.
  
  
• Mentor Graphics Unveils Android and Embedded Linux Strategy with Acquisition of Embedded Alley (Thursday Jul. 30, 2009)
  By combining Embedded Alley’s Android and Linux products and services with the Mentor Graphics Nucleus® real-time operating system (RTOS), tools and middleware, Mentor can now provide device manufacturers with all the software they need to build their products, and work closely with them throughout their product lifecycle to supply tools and services at every stage.
  
  
• Mentor Graphics Announces Nucleus Graphics and Linux Platform for ARM Mali GPUs (Thursday Jul. 30, 2009)
  Mentor Graphics® Corporation MENT today announced the integration of its Nucleus®Graphics User Interface (GUI) with the ARM Mali graphics processing unit (GPU) family of acceleration solutions. The joint platform consists of Embedded Linux running on an ARM1176 processor with an integrated Mali-200 GPU.
  
  
• Mirics targets ARM processor-based smartphones with FlexiTV (Tuesday Jul. 28, 2009)
  Mirics Semiconductor has today announced that it is developing mobile TV and radio solutions for smartphone applications by migrating its FlexiTV™ platform to the ARM® Cortex™-A8 and Cortex-A9 applications processors.
  
  
• Atmel Standardizes on DDR2 for 400 MHz, High Speed-USB-enabled ARM9-based Embedded MPUs (Monday Jul. 27, 2009)
  Atmel announced today the release of the SAM9G45, the first member of a series of 400 MHz ARM926 embedded MPUs that support second generation Dual Data Rate DRAM (DDR2) and are optimized for industrial applications such as building automation, data loggers, POS terminals, alarm systems and medical equipment.
  
  
• CoFluent Design Closes the Modeling GAP for Virtual Platforms (Monday Jul. 20, 2009)
  CoFluent Studio complements virtual platform environments by generating proprietary IP and use case SystemC models – successful TLM-2.0 integration has been achieved with CoWare and Synopsys
  
  
• Siemens Uses CoFluent to Create Models for Virtual Platform Simulation (Monday Jul. 20, 2009)
  CoFluent Design today announced that Siemens runs SystemC models created with CoFluent Studio on the CoWare® Platform Architect SystemC kernel.