CEVA to present LTE IP offering at mobile & wearable conference

In addition to the CEVA-X2 scalar DSP, CEVA’s offerings include CEVA-XC vector DSPs, associated  function-specific accelerators, optimised firmware and software reference chains.

The two-day conference will take place from 26th to 27th July in Santa Clara, California, with CEVA’s presentation scheduled for Session 1: “The Road to 5G Wireless” on the first day.

Linley Gwennap, Principal Analyst, The Linley Group, commented: “CEVA has a long and successful heritage in DSP IP for LTE, and in fact, powered the first-ever LTE phone launched in the United States in 2010. In the intervening years, they have consistently advanced their LTE capabilities by adding specialised DSPs for control and data planes and augmented these with essential hardware and software IPs that improve performance and accelerate time-to-market for their customers. As a result, CEVA is well-positioned for the future with a single, coherent portfolio of LTE reference architectures for LTE-Advanced-Pro use cases, from IoT through to smartphones and beyond.”

The CEVA-X2 is designed for specific LTE-Advanced-Pro and 5G use cases where the emphasis of the DSP is PHY control processing. For example, where the PHY Datapath tasks such as per-channel measurement and decoding are not required to run on the DSP, the CEVA-X2 offers a 30-65% better die size efficiency and 10-25% better power efficiency compared to CEVA-X4 DSP. The CEVA-X2 is also suited to run both the PHY and MAC for a range of other communication standards, including IEEE 802.15.4g, ZigBee, Thread and PLC, combining power efficiency with minimal die area for such use cases.

“The NEW CEVA-X architecture framework addresses the DSP ‘design gap’ that exists for companies developing next-generation modems, including those targeting LTE-Advanced Pro and 5G. Many existing DSP architectures simply don’t have the performance to tackle these advanced use cases efficiently. The CEVA-X2 brings a host of powerful features that address the key challenges for multi-RAT PHY control processing, ensuring outstanding performance and power efficiency for even the most complex use cases,” added Michael Boukaya, Vice President and General Manager, Wireless Business Unit, CEVA.