MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
Nov. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CEVA,
Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA); (LSE: CVA), the leading licensor of silicon
intellectual property (SIP) platform solutions and DSP cores, today
announced that the CEVA-TeakLite-III DSP has become the industry's
first IP core approved by Dolby for the MS11 Multistream Decoder -
the latest Dolby® audio technology for enabling multi-format
world-wide broadcast in home entertainment products. The
fully-optimized implementation of the sophisticated MS11 decoder
represents a significant milestone for CEVA, and extends the
company's leadership in developing and implementing
high-performance HD audio platforms for next-generation connected,
home entertainment SoC designs. In total, CEVA now has more than 90
audio and voice codecs available for the CEVA-TeakLite DSP
architecture.
The native 32-bit CEVA-TeakLite-III DSP core provides the
foundation for the CEVA-HD-Audio solution. The single-core solution
is the most compact and power-efficient HD audio offering available
for integration into home entertainment and consumer ICs, with
lower overall cost and reduced die size compared to other audio
solutions, some requiring dual processors for advanced audio
use-cases. For example, a MS11 DDT dual use case, including Dolby
Volume over 5.1 channels, consumes less than 30% of available MHz
on a single CEVA-TeakLite-III processor at a 40nmG process node.
This ensures ample headroom is available on the DSP for additional
high-performance tasks such as post-processing or multi-room
support.
The Dolby MS11 Multistream Decoder can decode all premium
broadcast audio formats for Digital TVs, IPTVs and set-top boxes,
including Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby Pulse and all AAC bitstreams.
In addition, CEVA's fully-optimized implementation of Dolby Volume,
the Dolby technology for multi-channel volume equalization has also
been approved by Dolby. Approval of these technologies was achieved
using actual CEVA-TeakLite-III silicon, providing CEVA customers
with a silicon-proven hardware and software solution that
streamlines the overall design cycle.
"The availability of the Dolby MS11 Multistream Decoder on the
CEVA-TeakLite-III DSP constitutes a high-performance,
cost-effective solution for customers designing digital media
platforms for the home," said Jason
Power, Senior Director, Broadcast Audio Ecosystem, Dolby
Laboratories. "The time-to-market and performance advantages that
CEVA's licensees can leverage from a silicon-proven and Dolby
approved MS11 solution are critical success factors for these
next-generation, Dolby-enabled products."
"CEVA is proud to be the first IP vendor to achieve Dolby MS11
and Dolby Volume approval for a DSP core, providing our customers
with a significant time-to-market advantage for their home
entertainment SoC designs," said Eran
Briman, vice president of marketing at CEVA. "Furthermore,
our single-core implementation based on the CEVA-TeakLite-III DSP
ensures significant die size and cost savings, critical to
next-generation MS11-enabled set-top box and Digital TV
products."
CEVA-HD-Audio is built on the CEVA-TeakLite-III DSP core, and
includes a configurable fully cached memory subsystem, a
comprehensive set of optimized HD audio codecs, and complete
software development kit, including software development tools,
prototype boards, and test chips.
To learn more about CEVA-HD-Audio, visit
www.ceva-dsp.com/hdaudio.
Availability
The CEVA-HD-Audio solution, including the Dolby MS11 Multistream
Decoder and Dolby Volume is currently available for licensing. For
more information, contact sales@ceva-dsp.com.
About CEVA, Inc.
CEVA is the world's leading licensor of silicon intellectual
property (SIP) DSP cores and platform solutions for the mobile
handset, portable and consumer electronics markets. CEVA's IP
portfolio includes comprehensive technologies for cellular baseband
(2G / 3G / 4G), multimedia (HD video, Image Signal Processing (ISP)
and HD audio), voice over packet (VoP), Bluetooth, Serial Attached
SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA). In 2010, CEVA's IP was shipped in
over 600 million devices, powering handsets from 7 out of the top 8
handset OEMs, including Nokia, Samsung, LG, Motorola, Sony Ericsson
and ZTE. Today, more than one in every three handsets shipped
worldwide is powered by a CEVA DSP core. For more information,
visit www.ceva-dsp.com. Follow CEVA on twitter at
www.twitter.com/cevadsp.
SOURCE CEVA, Inc.