MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/
-- CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA); (LSE: CVA), the leading licensor
of silicon intellectual property (SIP) platform solutions and DSP
cores, today unveiled the CEVA-XC4000, a fully programmable
low-power DSP architecture framework supporting the most demanding
communication standards for cellular, Wi-Fi, DTV, white space, and
more. Building upon its highly successful predecessors, the
CEVA-XC4000 architecture sets a new milestone for power efficiency
and utilizes an innovative instruction set to enable highly
complex, software-based baseband processing which otherwise could
only be accomplished with dedicated hardware. Illustrating this,
the CEVA-XC4000 delivers a 5X performance improvement over the
CEVA-XC323 DSP for LTE-A processing, while consuming 50% less
power.
The CEVA-XC4000 architecture is offered in a series of six fully
programmable DSP cores, offering modem developers a wide spectrum
of performance capabilities while complying with the most stringent
power constraints. By taking advantage of a unified development
infrastructure composed of code-compatible cores, a set of
optimized software libraries and a single tool chain, customers can
significantly reduce software development costs while leveraging
their software investment in future products.
"The CEVA-XC4000 redefines the concept of a 'universal
communication architecture', enabling every conceivable advanced
cellular, connectivity, DTV, white space and powerline
communication standard to be efficiently supported by a single DSP
architecture," said Gideon Wertheizer, CEO of CEVA. "Incorporating
new power management techniques, we were able to dramatically
reduce the power consumption for high-performance software-based
processing, paving the way for modem developers to exploit the
flexibility, reusability and time-to-market advantages that a
software-defined approach brings."
"Today's advanced wireless communications
landscape is a complex array of evolving standards and protocols
that product developers must support quickly, cost-effectively and
efficiently," noted Linley Gwennap,
principal analyst of The Linley Group. "Based on the widespread
adoption of its CEVA-XC architecture, the company has already
delivered a programmable platform that meets the performance, power
and die area requirements for today's baseband applications. CEVA's
new XC4000 architecture is a scalable architecture with improved
computational efficiency for next-generation wireless standards
such as LTE-A and 802.11ac."
Power, Performance, Precision, System Know-how
Addressing the ever-increasing requirement for higher
performance together with lower power consumption, the CEVA-XC4000
architecture incorporates new and innovative power-oriented
enhancements, including CEVA's second generation Power Scaling Unit
(PSU 2.0) which dynamically supports clock and voltage scaling with
fine granularity within the processor, memories, buses and system
resources. The architecture also utilizes Tightly Coupled
Extensions (TCE) to deliver inter-connected power-optimized
coprocessors and interfaces for the implementation of critical PHY
functions, further reducing power consumption. A rebalanced
pipeline with low-level module isolation is also highly optimized
for power.
The CEVA-XC4000 incorporates enhanced system-level mechanisms,
queues and interfaces to deliver exceptional performance, realizing
faster connectivity, higher bandwidth, lower latency and better PHY
control. The architecture offers uncompromising modem quality using
two distinct inter-mixable high-precision instruction sets,
supporting the most advanced 4x4 and 8x8 MIMO algorithms.
In order to better serve CEVA-XC4000 customers, CEVA has also
announced today complete reference architectures targeting complex
communication standards, including LTE-A Rel-10 and Wi-Fi 802.11ac
supporting up to 1.7 Gbps, in collaboration with CEVA-XCnet
partners mimoOn and Antcor. These reference architectures are
complemented with highly optimized software libraries for LTE-A and
Wi-Fi.
Streamlined Software Development
The CEVA-XC4000 DSP architecture is supported
by CEVA-Toolbox™, a complete software development environment,
incorporating Vec-C™ compiler technology for advanced vector
processors, enabling the entire architecture to be programmed in
C-level. An integrated simulator provides accurate and efficient
verification of the entire system including the memory sub-systems.
In addition, CEVA-Toolbox includes libraries, a graphical debugger,
and a complete optimization tool chain named CEVA Application
Optimizer. The Application Optimizer enables automatic and manual
optimization applied in the C source code.
For more information, visit
www.ceva-dsp.com/CEVA-XC4000.html.
Availability
The first member of the CEVA-XC4000 DSP series is available
today for lead customers. 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 2011, CEVA's IP was shipped in
over 1 billion devices, powering handsets from 7 out of the top 8
handset OEMs, including Nokia, Samsung, LG, Motorola, Sony and ZTE.
Today, more than 40% of handsets shipped worldwide are 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.