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ARM has gone back to the 32bit realm for its latest Cortex-A processor core, aiming the device at a new generation of low-cost platforms inspired by the success of the Raspberry Pi as well as wearables.

ARM and Ceva have both aimed at the need for to juggle control code and DSP in the upcoming LTE-Advanced and 5G with their latest processor core architectures.

Cortus has added to its version 2 architecture a processor core that offers hardware support for floating-point code.

Ultrasoc is adding security monitoring to its toolkit, providing SoC designers with a mechanism for their chips to warn of attempts by hackers to break into secure areas.

Sonics has add static performance analysis to its SonicsStudio tool and timeout detection to its SonicsGN network intended to prevent SoCs locking up.

UltraSoC is extending its debug support for a variety of processor cores through compatibility with ARM’s CoreSight debug system as well as support for Ceva’s DSP cores.

ARM is bringing the Trustzone security architecture to future Cortex-M processor cores, combining that with a version of AHB that will recognise the difference between secure and non-secure transactions.

ARM has developed a version of its CoreLink on-chip interconnect IP intended to support systems based on its big.Little processors combinations that need a cache-coherent GPU connection with lower latency and higher peak throughput.

IP supplier CEVA has made a development platform intended to speed up the prototyping of IoT and similar devices based on its TeakLite-4 DSP core.

ARM has moved back into system-level modelling with the decision to buy the tools and models developed by Carbon Design Systems