Welcome to the first issue of the Processor Designer eUpdate Newsletter. To date, more than 100 million devices have been featuring application specific processors (ASIP) designed with Processor Designer. Processor Designer customers are involved in a wide range of application domains, deploying ASIPs for a specific reason;to meet power, performance and area goals while achieving programmability.This newsletter serves multiple purposes: •Staying in touch with you, keeping you informed about the latest tool enhancements and pointing you to upcoming events•Sharing success stories about why customers decided to build application specific processors •Introducing application domains that are deploying application specific processors