Synopsys, Inc. announced a new release of its DesignWare ARC MetaWare EV Development Toolkit. The ARC MetaWare EV Development Toolkit offers a programming environment for the EV6x vision processor IP based on the OpenVX open standard API, with a C/C++ compiler and OpenCL C vectorizing compiler. The Toolkit includes OpenVX kernels optimized to run on EV6x Processors, the first hardware-software platform to successfully pass The Khronos Group’s OpenVX 1.2 conformance tests.