Bsquare Corp. says it has acquired a set of embedded assets of Vibren Technologies for $500,000, including software products, customer relationships, ongoing royalty streams, and new marketing channels, as well as eight sales and engineering personnel. Vibren will re-focus around low-to-medium volume embedded Macromedia Flash licensing.

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Vibren products acquired by BSquare include:

• SchemaBSP, a tool for porting Microsoft Windows CE to ARM-based embedded devices.
• ATOMS, a tool for building HTML- and Flash-based user interfaces for Windows CE devices.
• DevKit Integrated Development Platform (IDP), an Intel XScale PXA255-based reference platform (pictured above) for Windows and Linux embedded designs that was selected by Intel as the standard PXA255 Development Platform for new PXA255 designs, according to Vibren

Vibren is a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC. It is a Microsoft gold-level Windows Embedded Partner, a Microsoft Windows Mobile MPAC member, Intel PCA Developer Network Charter member and a Texas Instruments OMAP Technology Center member.

A Vibren spokesperson recently told LinuxDevices.com that the company will continue to distribute Macromedia Flash licenses to low-to-medium volume OEMs in the embedded market. The company says Flash is catching on quickly as a user-interface for digital signage products, casino gaming devices, and other fixed-function devices.

Bsquare CEO Brian Crowley said, “The products we are acquiring and the people we are retaining complement the reference design initiatives we already have underway. [We] intend to incorporate parts of the acquired technology into our next-generation reference design offerings. Vibren's embedded customer base is right in line with our own.”

Under terms of the agreement, Bsquare paid Vibren Technologies $500,000 at closing and assumed certain liabilities and obligations. Bsquare will host a conference call about the deal on Thursday, Aug. 11, at 2 p.m. Pacific Time.

 
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