Granite Bay, CA -- January 20, 2005 -- CodeSourcery, LLC today announced it is a new member in the ARM® Connected Community. As part of the ARM Connected Community, CodeSourcery will gain access to a full range of resources to help it market and deploy innovative solutions that will enable developers to get their ARM Powered® products to market faster.

Mark Mitchell, Chief Sourcerer of CodeSourcery, said “We’re very proud of the fact that ARM selected CodeSourcery to develop official releases of the GNU Toolchain for the ARM architecture. Our version of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is rapidly becoming the de-facto open source compiler for ARM processor-based GNU/Linux and we’re confident that our membership in the Connected Community will help us to reach other ARM partners that can make use of our toolchain.”

CodeSourcery provides bi-annual releases of the GNU Toolchain for ARM (including the GNU C and C++ compilers, the GNU Binary Utilities, and other tools) for “bare metal” and for GNU/Linux.CodeSourcery’s releases include support for the ABI for all versions of the ARM instruction set architecture (ISA) a, up to and including the ARMv6 architecture.

The ARM Connected Community is a global network of companies aligned to provide a complete solution, from design to manufacture and end use, for products based on the ARM architecture. ARM offers a variety of resources to Community members, including promotional programs and peer-networking opportunities that enable a variety of ARM Partners to come together to provide end-to-end customer solutions.

The ARM Connected Community also enables CodeSourcery to utilize the ARM Connected Community logo, which is an easy way for customers to recognize that CodeSourcery has proven their commitment and expertise in support of the ARM architecture.

“By joining the ARM Connected Community, which now comprises more than 300 companies, CodeSourcery increases the large portfolio of skills, products and services that are centered around the ARM architecture, and currently available to developers worldwide,” said Mary Inglis, director of Alliances for ARM.

For more information about the ARM Connected Community, please visit http://www.arm.com/community.

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