Ceva (semiconductor company)

CEVA is a publicly listed semiconductor intellectual property (IP) company, headquartered in Rockville, Maryland and specializes in digital signal processor (DSP) technology. The company's main development facility is located in Herzliya, Israel and Sophia Antipolis, France. CEVA was recently named in the Israeli 100 companies list of technologies that changed the world.[2]

For other uses, see Ceva (disambiguation).

CEVA, Inc.
TypePublic
NASDAQ: CEVA
S&P 600 Component
IndustrySemiconductors
Founded2002 (2002)
Headquarters
Rockville, Maryland
,
United States
Key people
Gideon Wertheizer, CEO
ProductsSignal processing platforms and AI processors
RevenueUS$77.88 million[1] (2018)
US$1.25 million[1] (2018)
US$547,000[1] (2018)
Total assetsUS$227.26 million[1] (2018)
Total equityUS$245.88 million[1] (2018)
Number of employees
341[1] (2018)
Websitewww.ceva-dsp.com

History

CEVA was created in November 2002, through the combination of the DSP IP licensing division of DSP Group and Parthus Technologies plc (an Irish company that was founded in 1993).[3]

The company develops semiconductor intellectual property core technologies for multimedia and wireless communications technology. CEVA claimed the largest number of baseband processors in 2010,[4] and a 90% DSP IP market share in 2011.[5] In July 2014 it acquired RivieraWaves SAS, a private company based in France.[1]

In July 2019 it acquired the Hillcrest Labs sensor fusion business from InterDigital.[6]

In July 2019, CEVA also entered into a strategic partnership with a Canadian company, Immervision[7] to secure exclusive licensing rights for its patented image processing and sensor fusion technologies for wide-angle cameras.

Technologies and products

Imaging and Computer Vision

CEVA develops solutions for low-cost, low-power computational photography and computer vision for a variety of markets including mobile, automotive, surveillance, drones, AR/VR, wearables, action cameras and photography gear.[8] The company provides vision DSP cores, deep neural network toolkits, real-time software libraries, hardware accelerators, and algorithm developer ecosystems. The goal of these solutions to deliver human-like visual perception to mass-market embedded devices, by offering a far more efficient solution that existing vision engines typically powered by GPUs.

Deep Learning and Neural Networks

CEVA Deep Neural Network (CDNN) toolkit  is part of an integrated hardware and software IP platform centered on the CEVA-XM computer vision and NeuPro AI cores.[9] The CDNN toolkit’s aim is to simplify the development and deployment of deep learning systems on embedded devices and facilitate real-time execution in time-critical use cases, such as autonomous driving, sense-and-avoid drones, virtual and augmented reality, smart surveillance, smartphones, robotics, and other systems that utilize artificial intelligence for imaging and vision.

NeuPro is CEVA’s newest family of dedicated low-power AI processors for deep learning at the edge.[10] NeuPro processors are self-contained, specialized AI processors, scaling in performance for a broad range of end markets including IoT, smartphones, surveillance, automotive, robotics, medical and industrial.[11] This group of products offers high-performance configurations ranging from 2 Tera Ops Per Second (TOPS) for the entry-level processor and 12.5 TOPS for the most advanced configuration.

See also

References
  1. "10-K 2018". United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  2. "Israel Innovation Authority" (PDF).
  3. "DSP Group, Parthus to merge IP licensing businesses in new company", Electronic Engineering Times, April 5, 2002
  4. Peter Clarke (January 31, 2011). "CEVA claims top spot for cell phone DSP". Electronic Engineering Times. Retrieved March 23, 2017.
  5. "CEVA Continues to Dominate DSP IP Market with 90% Market Share". Press release. May 14, 2012. Retrieved March 23, 2017.
  6. "CEVA Acquires Hillcrest Labs Intelligent Sensor Technologies Business from InterDigital". PR Newswire.
  7. "CEVA and Immervision enter strategic partnership". Evertiq.
  8. "Embedded Vision Alliance Members". www.embedded-vision.com. Retrieved September 11, 2019.
  9. "CEVA-XM6 | CEVA". www.ceva-dsp.com. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
  10. Frumusanu, Andrei. "CEVA Announces NeuPro-S Second-Generation NN IP". www.anandtech.com. Retrieved November 6, 2019.
  11. "NeuPro Family of AI Processors". www.design-reuse-embedded.com. Retrieved November 6, 2019.
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