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• eInfochips introduces High-Definition Digital Video Processing Board for Texas Instruments DaVinci Technology (Wednesday Sep. 24, 2008)
  The DVPB-HD features TI’s TMS320DM6467 digital media processor based on DaVinci technology and provides all commonly used video system peripheral interfaces.
  
  
• Atmel's Secure 32-bit ARM System-on-Chip Microcontroller Awarded Common Criteria EAL4+ Certification (Tuesday Sep. 23, 2008)
  Atmel® announces that the AT91S0100 and its derivatives have been granted Common Criteria certification EAL4+. This vulnerability assessment corresponds to today's highest proven resistance against any security attack (AVA_VLA4).
  
  
• Ittiam Systems Announces the Availability of High Performance Multimedia Codecs on the ARM Cortex-A8 Processor (Thursday Sep. 18, 2008)
  Ittiam Systems, a member of the ARM® Connected Community™, today announced a new set of high-quality and high-performance audio and video codecs for the ARM Cortex™-A8 processor with ARM NEON™ technology.
  
  
• Texas Instruments partners with Ittiam Systems to offer customers a highly flexible IP video phone solution based on TI's Voice over IP platform and DaVinci video technology (Wednesday Sep. 17, 2008)
  Leveraging TI's existing Gigabit Ethernet IP phone platform with Telogy Software™ for VoIP, high-performance TI DaVinci™ technology, and Ittiam's powerful video engine software, the new platform maintains high quality VoIP performance and the flexibility to incorporate compelling next-generation video functionality such as video conferencing.
  
  
• Tensilica Adds AMR WB+ Audio / Speech Decoder and Encoder to HiFi 2 Audio Processor Software Library (Tuesday Sep. 16, 2008)
  The AMR WB+ (Adaptive Multi Rate Wideband plus) speech codec improves on the available AMR Wideband speech codec by adding support for stereo signals and higher sampling rates, providing higher quality at low bit rates.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Unveils Groundbreaking Linux Development Tools in New Integrated Component Suite (Monday Sep. 15, 2008)
  Navigator ICS brings together the industry's leading tools and technologies for MIPS® development in a cohesive, off-the-shelf product, with new and innovative components for Linux development.
  
  
• On2 Technologies Unveils New Advanced Video Compression Format (Monday Sep. 15, 2008)
  On2 video delivers over 50% bandwidth savings compared to leading H.264 implementations
  
  
• Fraunhofer IIS and VoiceAge provide ­reference for upcoming MPEG audio codec (Monday Sep. 15, 2008)
  Fraunhofer IIS and speech codecs VoiceAge Corporation have announced that their proposal for a new MPEG audio codec has been selected to provide the basis for ongoing standardization work.
  
  
• Nuvation Introduces the Multichannel Video Front End Reference Design for Design-Acceleration of Video Security Encoder Products (Monday Sep. 15, 2008)
  Nuvation's McVFE reference design is based on Texas Instruments' (TI) DaVinci(TM) technology and TVP quad-channel video decoder with complementary FPGA technology provided by Xilinx's Spartan 3A FPGA technology.
  
  
• ATEME releases third generation H.264 core engine (Wednesday Sep. 10, 2008)
  ATEME’s Gen3 H.264 codec, for the Kyrion series of real-time video encoders, is based on a number of ATEME patent-pending innovations enabling bandwidth efficiency gains and video quality enhancements over the previous generation of H.264 codecs.
  
  
• CEVA Partners With TES Electronic Solutions to Bring Graphics Capabilities to MM2000 Portable Multimedia Solution (Tuesday Sep. 09, 2008)
  eVRU vector rendering technology from TES leverages CEVA-X DSP engine at heart of MM2000 to enable software-based, high-quality graphics
  
  
• Tata Elxsi, Discretix Deliver Complete OMA BCAST Mobile TV Solution for Handset Vendors (Monday Sep. 08, 2008)
  Discretix Multi-Scheme Mobile TV Security Client Ensures Support for Standard Mobile TV Security Schemes; Joint Solution Offers Fast Time-to-Market for Device Manufacturers
  
  
• Green Hills Software Announces u-velOSity for ARC 600 Core Family and the ARC Sound Subsystem (Friday Sep. 05, 2008)
  With a ROM footprint as small as 2K bytes, RAM footprint as small as 1K bytes, and service call times as low as 30 cycles, u-velOSity is ideal for the cost-sensitive, high-performance applications for which ARC cores and subsystems are ideally suited.
  
  
• Atmel Launches US$399 Starter Kit for ARM7-Based Customizable Microcontrollers (Tuesday Sep. 02, 2008)
  CAP7 customizable MCUs allow designers to migrate ARM7-plus-FPGA designs to a low-NRE, single-chip solution with approximately 30% lower unit costs, with eight times better performance, 98% less static power consumption, and 70% less active power consumption.
  
  
• Freescale debuts flexible, cost-effective multicore audio DSPs (Thursday Aug. 28, 2008)
  The Symphony DSP56724 and DSP56725 DSPs provide impressive performance via two DSP cores delivering up to 250MHz per core and featuring 112K x 24-bit words of integrated memory.
  
  
• Imagination Technologies' PURE brand gets connected to new market (Tuesday Aug. 26, 2008)
  Imagination Technologies reports that its PURE Digital brand has today launched the first truly 'connected' radio, EVOKE Flow, and its complementary radio and media portal, the PURE Lounge.
  
  
• Tensilica Adds Dolby Pro Logic II and Pro Logic IIx Decoders to Xtensa HiFi 2 Audio Engine Codec Library For Home Entertainment and Automotive Audio Products (Tuesday Aug. 26, 2008)
  Tensilica, Inc. today announced that it has added the Dolby Pro Logic II and Pro Logic IIx decoders to its audio codec library for Tensilica’s Xtensa HiFi 2 Audio Engine, one of the most popular commercial audio cores for system-on-chip (SOC) designs.
  
  
• Ambric Announces H.264 Acceleration Support for Apple Mac OS X Leopard (Monday Aug. 25, 2008)
  Ambric Now Shipping the Am2045 GT Video Reference Platform With Significant Acceleration for Apple Mac Pro and MacBook Pro
  
  
• Express Logic and Avnet Develop RTOS Support for Xilinx PowerPC 440 Processor on Virtex-5 FPGA (Wednesday Aug. 20, 2008)
  ThreadX support for the PowerPC440 processor on Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs was jointly developed with Avnet Electronics Marketing, resulting in its availability for the Avnet Virtex-5 FX30T Evaluation Kit as well as the Xilinx Virtex-5 FX70T Embedded Kit (ML507 board).
  
  
• Product Announcement: ARM SoC Designer - Final Release v7.1 is Now Available (Monday Aug. 18, 2008)
  This release provides several new benefits and enhancements and is the last release made by ARM. As per the agreement with Carbon Design Systems, Carbon has assumed future development, support and sale of the SoC Designer tool.
  
  
• Timesys Announces Embedded Linux for Tensilica Diamond Standard 232L Processor Core (Friday Aug. 15, 2008)
  Timesys and Tensilica today announced general availability of LinuxLink software subscriptions for Tensilica’s Diamond Standard 232L processor cores
  
  
• Wind River Adds Support for New Intel Integrated Processor Line for Embedded Devices (Thursday Aug. 14, 2008)
  VxWorks and Wind River Linux to Support Intel System on Chip (SoC) Offerings to Deliver Greater Performance, Reduce Cost
  
  
• ARM Announces RealView ICE 3.3 (Thursday Aug. 07, 2008)
  This release now also supports TI OMAP3 and TI DaVinci platforms and the ARM1176JZF-S™ platform, which in addition to support for the Freeescale i.MX31 application processors, further enhances the benefits of the RealView debug tools.
  
  
• TRANGO Hypervisor demonstrates secure platform virtualization on Texas Instruments OMAP3430 processor (Monday Aug. 04, 2008)
  The TRANGO Hypervisor offers a broad choice of operating system (OS) and real-time operating system (RTOS) including Linux, Windows Embedded CE, Symbian OS, eCos, ìC-OSII, ìITRON and other proprietary RTOS, while the OMAP 3 platform, based on ARM Cortex- A8 processor, offers up to 3X performance gain over ARM11 based processors.
  
  
• EEMBC Publishes New Certified Scores for Freescale i.MX31 with ARM Compiler (Thursday Jul. 31, 2008)
  Tested with the ARM® RealView® RVCT 3.1 build 559 compiler, the new results supersede a previous set of certified scores using a GCC version 3.43 compiler and limited –O2 optimizations.
  
  
• SafeNet Provides Industry-proven IPsec Security Toolkit Optimized for New Intel EP80579 Integrated Processors (Thursday Jul. 24, 2008)
  Product Provides Complete, Secure, System-on-a-chip (SOC) Solutions for Designing Low Cost SMB and Enterprise Applications
  
  
• Mentor Graphics Announces Support of Model-driven Design for Six Sigma in the Automotive Industry (Thursday Jul. 17, 2008)
  Mentor Graphics today announced that its virtual prototyping tool, SystemVision™, supports Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) methodologies to achieve cost-effective design innovation by a model-driven development process.
  
  
• Mentor Graphics Achieves Industry-First OpenMAX Conformance for Nucleus OS Multimedia Framework (Wednesday Jul. 16, 2008)
  Mentor today announced that the Nucleus® Operating System (OS) Multimedia Framework (MMF) has passed OpenMAX™ IL conformance testing on the Atmel AT91SAM9261 platform.
  
  
• Fujitsu launches ARM1176 prototyping kit (Tuesday Jul. 15, 2008)
  Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe announced the launch of an ARM1176 prototyping kit, designed to shorten the development time for customers using its ASIC and COT services to develop SoCs that include the ARM1176JZF-S™, ARM926EJ-S™, or ARM946E-S™ processor cores.
  
  
• Discretix to Demo CPRM Content Protection At Wireless Japan 2008 On TI OMAP3 Platform And M-Shield Security (Monday Jul. 14, 2008)
  The Discretix solution implements CPRM without the need for a dedicated CPRM hardware chip; it also builds on the proven track record of Discretix DRM solutions with TI’s M-Shield technology, a partnership established in 2006.