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CEVA Announces its Most Powerful and Efficient DSP Architecture to Date, Addressing the Massive Compute Requirements of 5G-Advanced and Beyond
- New CEVA-XC20 extends CEVA's industry leadership in Digital Signal Processors, employing a novel vector multi-threaded compute technology that increases
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[{"type":"text","content":"- New CEVA-XC20 extends CEVA's industry leadership in Digital Signal Processors, employing a novel vector multi-threaded compute technology that increases power and area efficiency by up to 2.5X versus predecessor\n- Highly scalable architecture targets intense baseband compute use cases for 5G-Advanced eMBB devices, smartphones and cellular RAN equipment\nBARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Mobile World Congress CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA), the leading licensor of wireless connectivity and smart sensing technologies and co-creation solutions, today announced its 5th generation CEVA-XC DSP architecture and its most efficient to date, the CEVA-XC20.\nExtending the company's leadership in DSPs, the new CEVA-XC20 is based on a groundbreaking vector multi-threaded massive compute technology that is designed to address next-generation 5G-Advanced workloads across a broad spectrum of use cases, including smartphones, high-end Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) devices (e.g. Fixed Wireless Access and Industrial Terminals) and a range of cellular infrastructure devices (e.g. base stations, virtualized DU accelerators, and beamforming compute in Massive MIMO radios). SoC and ASIC designers incorporating the CEVA-XC20 architecture can avail of its industry-leading power efficiency to design greener processors that are smaller and lower power, that in turn have a direct positive impact on the environment and society.\nDimitris Mavrakis, Senior Research Director, ABI Research, commented: \"CEVA's latest DSP architecture raises the bar for performance and power efficiency in 5G-Advanced cellular baseband processing, adopting a unique multi-thread scheme to address the challenging power, performance and area constraints when dealing with complex 5G scenarios. The CEVA-XC20 offers a compelling solution to any wireless semiconductor or OEM developing their own 5G-Advanced silicon, and can play a critical role in helping customers to address their sustainability goals in the process.\"\nThe CEVA-XC20 architecture was designed in consultation with CEVA's leading Tier 1 OEM customers, with the common aim of improving mobile network performance and power efficiency. The CEVA-XC20 solves the performance challenges posed by next-generation compute-intense 5G-Advanced by employing a novel Dynamic Vector Threading (DVT) scheme, which supports t...