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• Freescale streamlines embedded design with complimentary real-time operating system and software stacks (Monday Jan. 26, 2009)
  The increasing complexity of industrial applications and expanding functionality of semiconductors are driving embedded developers toward solutions that combine proven hardware and software platforms. To help accelerate time-to-market and improve application development success, Freescale Semiconductor is offering the Freescale MQX™ real-time operating system (RTOS) with TCP/IP and USB software stacks to ColdFire® microcontroller (MCU) customers at no additional charge.
  
  
• AudioCodes Announces Availability of VoIPerfect and High Definition VoIP on MIPS Technologies' Cores (Tuesday Jan. 20, 2009)
  AudioCodes and MIPS Technologies today announced the availability of AudioCodes’ VoIPerfect™ and VoIPerfectHD™ Voice over IP software on MIPS32® processor cores. This combination will enable System on Chip (SoC) designers to develop cost-effective products with advanced VoIP Quality of Service (QoS) and outstanding performance—leading to a more natural voice quality for devices such as IP Phones and Integrated Access Devices (IADs) for GPON, WiMAX and ADSL.
  
  
• RMI and SPIRIT Form Strategic Partnership (Friday Jan. 09, 2009)
  SPIRIT licensed to RMI its TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engine bringing high quality wideband real-time voice and video to the next generation electronics based on RMI’s highly integrated SoC, starting with the Alchemy Au1250, a power-optimized single-chip media processor.
  
  
• Fresco Logic Demonstrates SuperSpeed USB Host and Device Prototypes on a Windows Vista PC (Thursday Jan. 08, 2009)
  The demonstration marks the first public showing of a working SuperSpeed USB xHCI host controller adapter supporting beta xHCI driver in a PC running Windows Vista. The PC is connected using the 2 meter new USB 3.0 cables to Fresco Logic’s SuperSpeed USB Mass Storage Device prototype hardware.
  
  
• Tensilica Adds RealAudio Decoder Support for HiFi 2 Audio DSPs (Tuesday Jan. 06, 2009)
  Tensilica, Inc. today announced that it has it has ported the RealAudio 8, 9, and 10 decoders from digital entertainment services company RealNetworks, Inc. to the HiFi 2 Audio DSP, the industry’s leading licensable audio DSP.
  
  
• Sun Microsystems Announces Availability of First Chip-Multithreading Reference Design Kit (Thursday Dec. 18, 2008)
  Sun Microsystems today announced availability of the UltraSPARC T2 Reference Design Kit (RDK), to accelerate the design, development, and testing of UltraSPARC T2 processor-based embedded systems designs.
  
  
• Sundance Expands IP Portfolio with Imaging Cores from Cadre Codesign (Monday Dec. 15, 2008)
  Sundance Combines DSP FPGA Multiprocessing Modules With JPEG IP From Cadre Codesign To Deliver Low Cost, High Performance Imaging Solutions to the Medical Imaging, Security and Machine Vision Markets.
  
  
• SeaSolve and Sandbridge Introduce Joint Reference Design for Mobile WiMAX (IEEE 802.16e) based products (Thursday Dec. 11, 2008)
  The mobile WiMAX development effort leverages SeaSolve’s IP Cores (IEEE 802.16e PHY and MAC IP) and Sandbridge’s SB3500 reprogrammable baseband processor to allow manufacturers to design highly integrated and cost effective devices such as WiMAX enabled Smart phones and CPE’s for a multiplicity of target markets.
  
  
• ARC and Hellosoft Offer a VoIP Solution that Doubles the Channel Capacity of Comparable Embedded Solutions (Thursday Dec. 04, 2008)
  ARC today announced a VoIP solution based on the ARC® Sound™ platform running the VoIP software suite available from HelloSoft that provides SoC customers twice the voice channels of comparable IP cores.
  
  
• ICs address H.264/AVC compression issues (Monday Nov. 24, 2008)
  From digital televisions to portable electronics, the H.264/AVC next-generation video compression standard is becoming a mainstream.
  
  
• ARC International Announces Virtual Bass Audio Enrichment Solution (Wednesday Nov. 19, 2008)
  ARC International (LSE: ARK), today introduced Virtual Bass™ audio enrichment technology that enables electronic companies to be more competitive and lower manufacturing costs while providing a more compelling multimedia experience to consumers.
  
  
• Tensilica HiFi 2 Audio DSP Supports aacPlus by Dolby in Digital Audio Broadcasting Plus (DAB+) Decoder (Wednesday Nov. 19, 2008)
  Tensilica, Inc. today announced that it has added the aacPlus by Dolby for Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB+) decoder to its audio codec library for its Xtensa HiFi 2 Audio DSP
  
  
• Carbon and Tensilica Partner for Pre-Silicon Firmware Development (Tuesday Nov. 18, 2008)
  Tensilica processors are fully integrated with SoC Designer and enable users to perform implementation-accurate architectural analysis and pre-silicon firmware development.
  
  
• Adobe and ARM Accelerate Flash and AIR for ARM Platforms (Monday Nov. 17, 2008)
  The collaboration is expected to accelerate mobile graphics and video capabilities on ARM® platforms to bring rich Internet applications and Web services to mobile devices and consumer electronics worldwide.
  
  
• ARM and Canonical to Bring Full Ubuntu Desktop Experience to Low-Power, ARM Technology-Based Computing Devices (Thursday Nov. 13, 2008)
  ARM and Canonical Ltd, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu®, today announced that it will bring the full Ubuntu Desktop operating system to the ARMv7 processor architecture to address demand from device manufacturers.
  
  
• ARM Introduces Software Interface Standard for Cortex Processor-based Microcontrollers (Wednesday Nov. 12, 2008)
  Standard provides a single, scalable interface standard across all Cortex-M series processor vendors enabling easier code sharing and re-use
  
  
• RealVideo Expands Appeal of 388VDO to Products that Effectively Display Internet Content on Everything from Mobile Devices to D1 (Tuesday Nov. 11, 2008)
  The RealVideo codec expands the applicability of Tensilica's 388VDO video processor to products that efficiently display Internet content on everything from mobile devices to extended standard definition DTV.
  
  
• GDA Technologies Announces Availability of Bali Reference Board Based on Freescale's MPC5121e Processor (Friday Oct. 31, 2008)
  With 32 Kbyte instruction cache and 32 Kbyte data cache, a double-precision FPU, and instruction and data MMU, the MPC5121e is a powerful processor designed for automotive, industrial, and multi-market applications.
  
  
• Mentor Graphics Announces Nucleus Platform Media Player for Rapid Delivery of Multimedia Applications (Monday Oct. 27, 2008)
  The Nucleus Platform Media Player reference design exploits Nucleus OS services such as kernel, USB, file system, database, and user interface (UI) to enable the efficient storage, retrieval, playback, browsing and transfer of multimedia content.
  
  
• Express Logic and Virtutech Help Develop Applications in Mixed OS Environments (Monday Oct. 27, 2008)
  Companies Partner to Help Engineers Simulate Renesas Technology SH-4A Platform with Support for ThreadX(R) RTOS
  
  
• ARM Profiler for Symbian OS: ARM and Symbian Collaborate to Enable Feature-Rich, Low-Power Advanced Mobile Applications (Tuesday Oct. 21, 2008)
  ARM Profiler for Symbian OS empowers developers to deliver high performance and reduced power consumption for Symbian OS-based mobile phones
  
  
• Express Logic and Renesas Technology Team to Offer Audio-Video Media Player Reference Design (Tuesday Oct. 14, 2008)
  The media player platform is based on Renesas’ SuperH SH-2A microcontroller architecture and Express Logic’s ThreadX® RTOS, and enables access and display of media from USB flash drives or SD memory cards.
  
  
• Micrium Supports ARM Cortex Processors with Broad Portfolio of Embedded Systems Software Components (Thursday Oct. 09, 2008)
  Micrium today announced that nearly all of its embedded software products have been ported to the ARM® Cortex™-M1 and Cortex-M3 processors.
  
  
• Macraigor Systems Provides On-Chip Debug Solutions with Eclipse Ganymede and Full GNU Toolset Support for ARM Cortex-M3 Processors (Wednesday Oct. 08, 2008)
  Engineers building applications for these new ARM technology-based processors will be able to quickly and efficiently debug their hardware and software designs
  
  
• ARM Tackles Design Challenges for Complex, Application-Rich Consumer Devices With Latest Realview Development Tools (Tuesday Oct. 07, 2008)
  RealView Development Suite 4.0 Professional Enables Developers to Realize the Full Potential of Their ARM Processor-Based Devices, Including the Cortex-A9 MPCore Multicore Processor
  
  
• Free software bundles from Texas Instruments help customers reduce design time and cost for their innovative video products (Thursday Oct. 02, 2008)
  TI announced today a comprehensive system-level solution to simplify customer development of digital video products that includes free optimized software codec bundles and production-quantity availability of several digital media processors based on DaVinci(TM) technology.
  
  
• Altera and SLS Offer Commercially Supported Pre-Packaged uCLinux for Nios II Embedded Processor (Tuesday Sep. 30, 2008)
  Altera today announced it is partnering with SLS Corporation to offer Nios® II users a commercially supported, pre-packaged uCLinux option that targets its popular Nios II Embedded Evaluation Kit (NEEK).
  
  
• NXP Semiconductors Introduces Industry's Lowest Cost ARM9 with High Speed USB 2.0 OTG (Tuesday Sep. 30, 2008)
  The NXP LPC3130 combines a High Speed USB 2.0 OTG, including PHY, and dedicated PLL, 180 MHz ARM926EJ, 96KB SRAM, NAND flash controller, flexible external bus interface, four channel 10-bit A/D and a myriad of serial and parallel interfaces in a single chip targeted at consumer, industrial, medical, and communication markets.
  
  
• CriticalBlue and Toshiba Collaborate on Multicore Software Development Environment (Friday Sep. 26, 2008)
  CriticalBlue Delivers Key Elements of the Software Development Ecosystem for Toshiba’s Venezia Multicore Platform
  
  
• New Tensilica Partner Morpho, Inc Offers Image Processing Software For Mobile Devices (Thursday Sep. 25, 2008)
  Morpho, Inc. offers software application expertise for developers of camera-enabled mobile phones, digital still cameras, camcorders, and automobile navigation systems.