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• NXP Successfully Deploys Integrated CoWare and ARM Cortex Processor-based Solution in its Virtual Prototyping Environment (Monday Jul. 20, 2009)
  CoWare and ARM announced today that NXP has successfully deployed their joint software development solution, integrating Fast Models from ARM for Cortex™ processors™ in CoWare’s Virtual Platform technology. NXP uses the joint ARM-CoWare offering in their own SystemC based Virtual Prototyping Environment (VPE).
  
  
• SeaSolve Software Inc' Automated Manufacturing Test Solution accelerates ZigBee time to market (Thursday Jul. 16, 2009)
  SeaSolve Software today announced the availability of manufacturing test software for ZigBee products based on Ember's ZigBee Chipsets which include the EM351 System-on-Chip (SoC), EM357 SoC, EM250 SoC and the EM260 Network Co-Processor.
  
  
• L&T Infotech reduces Time-to-Market for OEMs through TI's OMAP3530 Reference Board (Wednesday Jul. 08, 2009)
  L&T Infotech today announced the availability of TI OMAP3530-based reference platform in Linux, WinCE and Android Flavors. The custom TI OMAP 3530 Reference board is targeted at OEMs developing products such as Mobile TV solutions, Portable Media Players (PMP), Personal Navigation Devices (PND), Mobile Internet Devices (MID) and Portable Gaming Devices, etc.
  
  
• CEVA Collaborates with Tessera to Demonstrate Embedded Image Enhancement Technologies on MM2000 Portable Multimedia Platform (Monday Jul. 06, 2009)
  CEVA will demonstrate the high-performance FotoNation face detection and face tracking capabilities running completely in software on CEVA's fully programmable multimedia platform. FotoNation embedded image enhancement technologies provides a full portfolio of solutions, improving image quality and enhancing, extending and simplifying picture taking for digital still cameras, cell phones, game consoles and other camera-enabled devices.
  
  
• NSCC Launches First AVS SD Decoder Optimized For The ARM Cortex-A8 Processor With NEON Technology (Wednesday Jul. 01, 2009)
  ARM and NSCC today announced that NSCC has successfully developed the first AVS Standard Definition (SD) decoder optimized for the ARM® Cortex™-A8 processor with NEON™ technology. The AVS (GB/T GB/T200090.2) is the second generation of source coding/decoding standard developed by the AVS Workgroup (Audio and Video Coding Standard Workgroup of China).
  
  
• MindTree Partners with Bluetooth Special Interest Group to Develop MCAP Test Suite for PTS (Thursday Jun. 25, 2009)
  MindTree today announced the release of a new protocol test suite developed for the Bluetooth Profile Tuning Suite (PTS).
  
  
• HHTech. launched a new generation Cortex-A8 emulator (Wednesday Jun. 24, 2009)
  HHTech. has launched Cortex-A8 emulator CodeHammer™ A. The emulator supports core debugging and real-time hardware breakpoints for Cortex-A8 core processors,such as i.MX515 and OMAP3530.
  
  
• Wind River Extends JTAG Development Tools for Freescale, Intel and RMI Processors (Wednesday Jun. 24, 2009)
  Wind River today introduced its standards-based Wind River Workbench On-Chip Debugging 3.1.1 with extended support for Freescale, Intel and RMI processors.
  
  
• BitSim launches ARM based Qt platform (Monday Jun. 22, 2009)
  BitSim has developed an ARM based system running Linux and Qt. The system hosts a range of interfaces, including: radio communication, USB, ethernet, Compact Flash-card, 2D graphics display accelerator and a generic FPGA interface. The hardware serves as a base for future projects, and a good starting point for prototyping and technology evaluation.
  
  
• CoWare and EVE Link Electronic System Virtualization and Emulation for ARM AXI-based Systems (Friday Jun. 19, 2009)
  CoWare Virtual Platform and EVE’s ZeBu (for zero bugs) emulation prototypes uses CoWare’s fast untimed emulation adapters and EVE’s Synthesizable AXI Transactors. This bridges the gap between the virtualized, transaction-level representation of the system for software development and the register transfer level (RTL) implementation of subsystem hardware in emulation.
  
  
• Ittiam Systems announces new audio software bundle for Texas Instruments' C64x+ Digital Signal Processors (Thursday Jun. 18, 2009)
  Ittiam Systems today announced the availability of a bundle of audio codecs for the Texas Instruments' C64x+™ family of digital signal processors (DSP). The software bundle is a comprehensive suite of production-qualified audio codecs that reduces design time and minimizes cost.
  
  
• Sun starts porting OpenSolaris to ARM chips (Friday Jun. 12, 2009)
  Sun Microsystems has started porting its OpenSolaris operating system on to ARM processor cores, targeting mobile, handheld and embedded applications, on the heels of being made available on Sparc processors targeting mainframes and servers.
  
  
• Atmel Upgrades SAM9261S to Higher-frequency SAM9G10 ARM9-based Embedded Microprocessor (Wednesday Jun. 10, 2009)
  The SAM9G10 further extends the performance envelope – it is clocked at 266 MHz, compared to 188 MHz from its predecessor, with a bus frequency of 133 MHz compared to 94 MHz and consuming no more than 100 mW in full power mode.
  
  
• HelloSoft Announces WiMAX/WiFi Handset Based on Its HS100 IP Convergence Processor (Friday Jun. 05, 2009)
  HelloSoft announces a dual-mode WiMAX/WiFi phone reference design based on its ultra low-power HS100 IP Convergence Processor. The HS100 combines an ultra low-power ARM processor with HelloSoft's patented SmartWLAN(TM) and SmartVoIP(TM) technology.
  
  
• Developers of control, automation and instrumentation applications can jumpstart designs with TI's new cost-efficient ARM Cortex-M3-based Stellaris MCU kits (Wednesday Jun. 03, 2009)
  TI today announced availability of four cost-efficient development kits supporting the fourth generation of its ARM Cortex-M3-based Stellaris MCUs.
  
  
• ARC Launches New Sound-to-Silicon Solution Aimed at the High-Growth Media Phone Market (Wednesday Jun. 03, 2009)
  ARC International today announced its latest Sound-to-Silicon solution aimed at the new category of broadband-based multimedia device, the Media Phone, which is predicted to replace telephone handsets and be the “fourth screen in the home.”
  
  
• New ARC Sound-to-Silicon Solution Targets Revitalized Mobile Digital TV Market (Wednesday Jun. 03, 2009)
  With ARC’s new solution, OEMs can quickly add digital TV functionality to portable devices that provides consumers with a significantly enhanced listening and viewing experience at lower development cost, while creating a product that is unique from their competitors.
  
  
• Atmel Introduces Industry's First ARM Cortex-M3 Flash MCU With On-Chip High Speed USB Device-and-Transceiver (Monday Jun. 01, 2009)
  Atmel announced today the SAM3U, the industry's first ARM(R) Cortex(TM)-M3 Flash microcontroller integrating high speed (480 Mbps) USB Device-and-Transceiver, 4-bit 192 Mbps SDIO/SDCard 2.0, 8-bit 384 Mbps MMC 4.3 Host and 48 Mpbs SPI interfaces on-chip
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Announces Availability of Android Platform on MIPS Architecture (Monday Jun. 01, 2009)
  MIPS today announced availability of the Android platform on its industry-standard MIPS® architecture. The company also announced it will make the MIPS-optimized source code publicly available within 60 days.
  
  
• Xilinx and LynuxWorks Demonstrate Avionics Application Solution (Monday Jun. 01, 2009)
  At the Military & Aerospace Electronics Forum (MAEF) and the Avionics USA conference today, Xilinx and LynuxWorks will demonstrate the industry's first and only time- and space-partitioned, FAA-accepted Reusable Software Component (RSC) that meets all objectives of RTCA/DO-178B.
  
  
• Sundance Boosts 4G Offer with New WiMAX Solution (Friday May. 29, 2009)
  Sundance today announced the release of its next generation WiMAX development system. The SMT703 is a complete lifecycle solution from R&D, design verification and conformance, through network deployment for Fixed or Mobile WiMAX designs.
  
  
• Xilinx & BEEcube to Unveil Next-Generation FPGA-based Multi-core SoC Development Platform for Sun OpenSPARC (Friday May. 22, 2009)
  Xilinx and BEEcube will jointly unveil a high-performance development environment for multi-core UltraSPARC CMT (chip multi-threaded) processors that reduces the time and effort required to design systems using the SPARC architecture.
  
  
• ARM RealView Development Suite: Enhanced Platform Support For Atmel, Freescale, Samsung, ST and TI Devices (Wednesday May. 20, 2009)
  ARM announces that enhanced platform support in the ARM® RealView® Development Suite has been extended to cover new development platforms for popular ARM processor-based devices.
  
  
• Agilent Technologies to Demonstrate Industry-First USB 3.0 Tests with NEC Electronics’ USB 3.0 Host Controller (Wednesday May. 20, 2009)
  Agilent today will demonstrate its SuperSpeed USB test solution portfolio here at the Developers Conference. This is the industry’s first high-performance SuperSpeed USB test fixture coupled with NEC Electronics’ USB 3.0 host controller.
  
  
• Tokyo Electron Device Announces ASIC/LSI Prototyping Board Released Featuring DDR3 SDRAM and LV-DDR2 SDRAM (Tuesday May. 19, 2009)
  Tokyo Electron Device Limited (TED) has today announced the release of Virtex-5 DDR3/LV-DDR2 SDRAM evaluation platform featuring next-generation high-speed DDR3 SDRAM memory and new LV-DDR2 SDRAM from Elpida Memory.
  
  
• Incoras Solutions announces MediaDesigner, an Eclipse-based Design and Test Workbench for OpenMAX IL Development (Tuesday May. 19, 2009)
  Incoras Solutions Ltd today announced the full release of MediaDesigner version 1.2, Eclipse-based design and test workbench that dramatically reduces time-to-market, costs and risks in the development of multi-media products using the Khronos OpenMAX IL standard.
  
  
• Tundra Semiconductor Announces RapidIO System Modeling Tool (Thursday May. 14, 2009)
  Tundra Semiconductor today announced its new Serial RapidIO® System Modeling Tool™. The new System Modeling Tool allows wireless, military, imaging, video infrastructure and storage OEMs to unleash the full performance potential and features of RapidIO interconnect to enhance system level performance, optimize architecture and reduce power consumption.
  
  
• Monotype Imaging and TAKUMI to Unveil OpenVG Text Solution (Tuesday May. 12, 2009)
  Monotype Imaging and TAKUMI will demonstrate TAKUMI’s OpenVG®- and OpenGL® ES™-compliant GV500 core graphics accelerator technology integrated with Monotype Imaging’s iType® font engine at the ESEC Expo
  
  
• Mentor Graphics Delivers First HDTV Platform for the Accelerated Verification of HDMI and DisplayPort Products (Tuesday May. 12, 2009)
  Mentor Graphics today announced its high-performance platform to accelerate the verification of HDTV products. The platform consists of the Veloce® family of hardware-assisted verification products and the iSolveTM Multimedia product for HTDV applications, which provides a cost-effective and efficient solution, delivering a dynamic and accurate verification environment.
  
  
• XMOS Delivers Industry's First Open Source Hardware Solution for Networked Audio & Video over Ethernet (Monday May. 11, 2009)
  The XMOS Ethernet AVB Reference Design delivers a complete AVB networked audio system, providing support for all AVB endpoint requirements, including Ethernet interface, packet processing, timing synchronization, configuration/stream setup and media rate recovery.