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• Jungo Expands USB Collaboration with Synopsys to Include Software Support for SuperSpeed USB 3.0 (Thursday Apr. 23, 2009)
  Jungo today announced that its USBware™ for SuperSpeed USB 3.0 stacks will be integrated with the Synopsys DesignWare SuperSpeed USB IP offering. The result is a complete turnkey solution for silicon manufacturers.
  
  
• Timesys Announces Factory Support for MIPS32 Processor Cores (Wednesday Apr. 22, 2009)
  Timesys today announced Timesys Factory support for MIPS32® synthesizable processor cores, including the high-performance MIPS32® 74K™ and multi-threaded, multi-core 1004K™ Coherent Processing System.
  
  
• Enterprise License Agreement Expands Freescale Access to Virtutech Simics (Tuesday Apr. 21, 2009)
  Virtutech today announced that Freescale Semiconductor has signed an extended license for the Simics® simulation platform. At the same time, Freescale’s Networking Systems Division (NSD) has designated Virtutech as its “preferred simulation partner” for the QorIQ™ line of processors.
  
  
• Sensor to Image Announces a GigE Core Reference Designs for Altera (Monday Apr. 20, 2009)
  In addition to the already introduced reference implementations for the GigE Core, Sensor to Image now covers Altera platforms too. This allows developers of Altera based vision systems to bring GigE Vision functionality to their systems.
  
  
• DiSTI and TES Electronics Solutions are Driving Down the Costs to Develop On-Screen Displays (Monday Apr. 20, 2009)
  The DiSTI Corporation today announces GL Studio® integration with the D/AVE 2D hardware IP core rendering engine produced by TES Electronic Solutions. A functional demonstration of a GL Studio developed interface, rendered by the D/AVE 2D hardware IP core into the Altera Cyclone® III family of FPGA is available
  
  
• APTX elevates HD digital audio with apt-X Lossless (Monday Apr. 20, 2009)
  APTX today states its intention to engage with the high-definition audio-video segment of the digital entertainment applications market with a radical, new design of “lossless” audio codec codenamed apt-X Lossless.
  
  
• EVE Significantly Enhances Hardware Debugging Capabilities of Its Leading Emulation Platform (Monday Apr. 13, 2009)
  EVE today announced that it is expanding the hardware debugging capabilities of ZeBu (for Zero Bugs) emulation systems by adding support for SystemVerilog Assertions, flexible probes, and complete access to all combinational signals at run-time for thorough design debugging.
  
  
• SeaSolve Software Announces High Speed Automated ZigBee Production Test Solution (Friday Apr. 03, 2009)
  SeaSolve today announced their latest version of an automated ZigBee production test solution based on a parallel processing architecture. By incorporating parallel processing into the ZigBee production test solution, SeaSolve is able to achieve reduced test times and cost with improved reliability, accuracy and efficient usage of the underlying RF hardware.
  
  
• Texas Instruments OMAP(TM) 3 hardware reference platform to increase open source innovation on the Symbian platform (Wednesday Apr. 01, 2009)
  Symbian Foundation today announced the Zoom OMAP34x-II mobile development platform (MDP) based on OMAP(TM) technology from TI as the first standard hardware development platform for developers that will help drive open source innovation on the Symbian platform.
  
  
• Virtutech defines full systems virtualized development with Simics 4.2 (Tuesday Mar. 31, 2009)
  Newest release of virtual systems development platform provides unmatched performance capability, scalability and interoperability across multiple networks of multi-core host systems, further extending savings and transforming the traditional electronic system development lifecycle
  
  
• Keil Enables Prototyping of Cortex-M Processor-Based Systems with the Microcontroller Prototyping System (Monday Mar. 30, 2009)
  The Keil MPS is the first prototyping system incorporating a full-speed Cortex-M0 or Cortex-M3 processor implemented in FPGA which can be integrated with third-party peripheral IP to deliver a prototyping system for hardware and software application development.
  
  
• Product Announcement: New Fast Models for the Cortex Processor Roadmap (Monday Mar. 30, 2009)
  ARM today announced expansion of its Fast Models portfolio with the introduction of two new models for the Cortex™-A9 MPCore™ multicore processor and for the Cortex-M3 processor.
  
  
• Tensilica HiFi 2 Audio DSP Supports HE AAC by Dolby in Digital Radio Mondiale; Now Offers Decoders for All Major International Digital Radio Standards (Monday Mar. 30, 2009)
  Tensilica today announced the immediate availability of the Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) decoder on its popular HiFi 2 Audio DSP, which can be easily integrated into system-on-chip (SOC) designs. The implementation is based on software developed by Dolby and has passed Dolby’s certification procedure.
  
  
• eInfochips Announces Availability of Two Reference Designs Featuring Marvell Sheeva CPU Technology (Friday Mar. 27, 2009)
  eInfochips today announced the availability of two Marvell(R) Kirkwood Series(TM) 88F6281 SoC based reference designs, the OpenRD-Base and the OpenRD-Client. These cost effective, high performance, low power reference designs offer developers a versatile, open platform to evaluate and develop software for solutions targeted at various market segments.
  
  
• eInfochips Launches HD Codecs - H.264 AVC and H.264 SVC - for Digital Media Processors From Texas Instruments (Friday Mar. 27, 2009)
  eInfochips has extended its offerings in the video domain by introducing two high definition (HD) video codecs targeted for the entire embedded video design market. The codecs, which run on Texas Instruments (TI) digital media processors based on DaVinci(TM) technology, support encode of live HD video up to 1080p and includes H.264 Base-Profile AVC (Advanced Video Codec) and H.264 SVC (Scalable Video Codec).
  
  
• Macraigor Systems Provides MIPS32 24KE On-Chip Debug Solutions with Eclipse Ganymede (Friday Mar. 27, 2009)
  Macraigor Systems, LLC today announced immediate On-Chip Debug Technology (OCDemon) support for the MIPS32 24KE, a high-performance RISC core family with DSP enhancements.
  
  
• Aeroflex Gaisler Announces LynxOS Support for the LEON processor (Friday Mar. 20, 2009)
  Aeroflex Gaisler AB today announced that the LynxOS operating system from LynuxWorks now is supported by the LEON3 processor. A port, a board support package and a demonstration application are now available for the GNU based SW development environment.
  
  
• CriticalBlue Delivers Prism, The First Embedded Multicore Development System to Leverage Unmodified Sequential Software (Thursday Mar. 19, 2009)
  CriticalBlue, the pioneer in embedded multicore software and platform design systems, has unveiled Prism, an embedded multicore programming system which allows software engineers to easily realize the full potential of multicore processors without significant change to their development flow.
  
  
• Sun and Wind River Deliver Carrier Grade Linux for Next-Generation Networking on Sun's UltraSPARC(R) T2 Processor (Tuesday Mar. 17, 2009)
  Sun Microsystems today announced that Wind River has completed the port of Wind River Linux 3.0 and Workbench development suite to Sun's chip multi-threaded (CMT) UltraSPARC(R) T2 processor.
  
  
• Carbon Announces Availability of ARM Cortex Models (Wednesday Mar. 11, 2009)
  The newly released Carbon Models include implementation-accurate models for all variations of the ARM® Cortex™-A9 MPCore™ multicore processor and PrimeCells®, including the AMBA® 3 Interconnect (PL301) matrix.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Announces Multi-Core Milestone (Wednesday Mar. 11, 2009)
  MIPS today announced that it is the first company to certify a multi-core system on EEMBC® MultiBenchTM benchmark software. MIPS certified its MIPS32® 1004KTM Coherent Processing System (CPS), the industry's first multi-threaded multiprocessor IP core, assuring customers of the core's high performance for a wide range of embedded applications.
  
  
• Keil Delivers Streamlined Development Environment for Embedded Software Development (Monday Mar. 02, 2009)
  ARM today announced the Keil™ µVision®4 integrated development environment (IDE) for creating, simulating and debugging embedded applications on microcontroller and smartcard devices.
  
  
• Nuvation Introduces Three New Video Security Reference Designs Featuring TI's DaVinci DM357 (Monday Mar. 02, 2009)
  Nuvation, introduces three new video security reference designs based on TI's new DaVinci(TM) DM357. Nuvation's IP Camera reference designs compress real-time, full-color 720x480 (D1) video over Ethernet at up to 30 frames per second.
  
  
• Texas Instruments extends OMAP 3 family with 45 nm products to address a broad range of mobile performance needs (Tuesday Feb. 17, 2009)
  TI announced today that it has extended its popular OMAP3 family with new 45 nanometer (nm) products. The new OMAP36x application processor family allows mobile device manufacturers to reuse their software investment in TI's popular 65 nm OMAP34x processor family and deliver higher performance computing with lower power consumption.
  
  
• SP Devices Launches New 1.1 GS/s 12 bit Digitizer (Friday Feb. 13, 2009)
  SP Devices today announced the release of its latest ADQ series digitizer. With its 1.1 GS/s real-time sampling rate and 12 bits resolution, the ADQ 112 offers the best-performing combination of high speed and high resolution on the market today.
  
  
• Tata Elxsi announces multicore DSP-based WiMAX base station and carrier class CPE for public safety and defence applications (Thursday Feb. 12, 2009)
  Tata Elxsi Ltd (TEL) today announced the availability of WiMAX solutions based on Texas Instruments’ multicore TMS320TCI6487 digital signal processor chip. The system incorporates the Tata Elxsi 802.16e pre-tested and optimized Mobile WiMAX baseband software (both PHY and MAC) fully integrated on a production quality hardware platform and RF through partner companies.
  
  
• SPIRIT's Audio Software Now Available on Freescale's Quad Core DSP chips (Friday Feb. 06, 2009)
  SPIRIT DSP announced today that Freescale Semiconductor has chosen SPIRIT's Audio Engine to support crystal clear audio on Freescale's industry-leading quad-core, programmable digital signal processor (DSP) chips
  
  
• D2 Technologies Demonstrates Complete Reference Design for WiMAX Mobile Phone (Tuesday Feb. 03, 2009)
  Built around the company’s breakthrough mCUE converged communications client, the reference design provides manufacturers with a powerful turnkey software solution for quickly developing and delivering WiMAX handsets and similar portable devices to market.
  
  
• ARM and Quickoffice Products Conform to Newly Ratified W3C SVG Tiny 1.2 Standard (Monday Feb. 02, 2009)
  ARM and Quickoffice announce the conformance of the ARM® Mali™-SVG-t software engine and Quickoffice Bitflash® Rich Media Engine 6.7 to the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Tiny 1.2 specification. Ratified by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in December 2008, the SVG Tiny 1.2 specification is an open standard that provides the ability to create a rich array of graphical content, from static images to animations, to interactive Web and mobile applications.
  
  
• Sital Announces the Release of its 2nd generation 1553 Bus Tester (Wednesday Jan. 28, 2009)
  Sital Technology, the world leader in Mil-Std-1553 IP cores and products, is expanding its products base with the release of the 2nd generation of its Mil-Std-1553 bus tester - MultiComBox™.