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Cadence Design Systems has launched the 11th generation of Tensilica Xtensa customizable processors, with changes for VLIW, power-saving caches and memory accesses.

Cadence has released a tool intended to ease the creation of scenario-driven tests to better exercise complex IP and SoC designs.

UK-based RAL Space has picked up an award from National Instruments for a system the organization built to test a pair of cameras ahead of being being deployed on the International Space Station to photograph the Earth from orbit.

Siemens has developed an open-source implementation of the Multicore Association's MTAPI to make it easier to divide and manage concurrent tasks that run on systems with multiple processors.

A demo at ARM TechCon showed one way malware could be foiled on systems that run software of uncertain provenance.

Applied Micro is to use the ARM v8 CPU architecture it developed for data centers to keep hold of embedded-systems customers who have decided to move away from its existing MIPS and PowerPC-based processors.

A multiprocessor test chip has led ARM to improve the energy-control strategy for its Big.Little architecture and to simplify the debug architecture for the company's multicore processor IP.

HCC Embedded has developed a modular software manager for encryption, designed to provide embedded systems with the foundation for handling security algorithms.

ARM is making a free operating system a cornerstone of its push into selling both more cores and server software to help manage them.

Does the internet of things (IoT) require a change in design techniques? A number of people involved in the EDA industry reckon it does.