CEVA-XM4 DSP licensed for surveillance & drone anti-collision

By integrating CEVA-XM4 as a dedicated vision processor in their next-gen SoC designs, Novatek and its customers can rapidly deploy highly-sophisticated vision algorithms to enable advanced applications such as surveillance systems with face detection and authentication, drone anti-collision systems and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). These types of applications are built utilising CEVA’s Deep Neural Network (CDNN2), a proprietary software framework that enables deep learning tasks to run on the CEVA-XM4 and outperform any GPU or CPU-based system in terms of speed, power consumption and memory bandwidth requirements.

Allen Lu, Assistant Vice President, iVoT SBU, Novatek, commented:“The CEVA-XM4 is an exceptional processor for imaging and computer vision, offering outstanding performance, flexibility and power efficiency for applications requiring visual intelligence capabilities. Having successfully collaborated with CEVA in the past few years for vision processing, we are delighted to extend our partnership with them and leverage the advances they have made for our next-generation SoCs.”

“Novatek has a strong track record of bringing high-quality, feature-rich and cost-effective camera SoCs to the mass market,” said Ilan Yona, Vice President and General Manager, Vision Business Unit, CEVA. “We are excited to work with them to include our CEVA-XM4 and CDNN2 technologies in their upcoming products, providing the platform to enable visual awareness in any camera-enabled device.”