''Ceva, Inc. is a publicly traded semiconductor and software intellectual property (IP) company listed on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol CEVA. Headquartered in

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', Ceva develops and licenses signal processing platforms and AI processors for a broad range of smart edge applications. Its licensable technologies include wireless connectivity IPs of

Bluetooth Bluetooth is a short-range wireless technology standard that is used for exchanging data between fixed and mobile devices over short distances and building personal area networks (PANs). In the most widely used mode, transmission power is li ...

Wi-Fi Wi-Fi () is a family of wireless network protocols based on the IEEE 802.11 family of standards, which are commonly used for Wireless LAN, local area networking of devices and Internet access, allowing nearby digital devices to exchange data by ...

, UWB and 5G, scalable Edge AI NPU IPs and sensor fusion solutions, serving diverse markets such as automotive, consumer IoT, industrial, infrastructure, mobile, and PC.''

History

Ceva Inc. was created in November 2002, through the combination of the DSP IP licensing division of DSP Group (based in Israel) and Parthus Technologies plc. Parthus was originally named Silicon Systems Ltd, and founded in

Dublin Dublin is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Situated on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, and is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, pa ...

, Ireland, in 1993 by Brian Long and Peter McManamon, Parthus had its

initial public offering An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors. An IPO is typically underwritten by one or more investm ...

in 2000, just as the

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was bursting in May, 2000. The agreement was announced in April, 2002. The DSP Group had founded a US company originally called DSP Cores, Inc, and then Corage, Inc. in 2001. The company used the name ParthusCeva for the combination, and planned to list its shared on

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with symbol PCVA and

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symbol PCV. In December, 2003, the company dropped the "Parthus" from their name, and changed the sticker symbol to Ceva. In 2007, it sold its stake in Dublin-based company GloNav to NXP Semiconductor for a gain of $10.9 million. The company develops

semiconductor intellectual property core A semiconductor is a material with electrical conductivity between that of a conductor and an insulator. Its conductivity can be modified by adding impurities (" doping") to its crystal structure. When two regions with different doping level ...

technologies for multimedia an
wireless communications
Ceva claimed the largest number o
baseband processors
in 2010, and a 90% DSP IP market share in 2011. In July 2014 it acquired RivieraWaves SAS, a private company based in France. A 2018 document promoting Israeli innovations mentioned the company. In July 2019 it acquired the Hillcrest Labs sensor fusion business from InterDigital. Also in July 2019, it entered into a strategic partnership with a Canadian company, Immervision to secure exclusive licensing rights for its patented

image processing An image or picture is a visual representation. An image can be two-dimensional, such as a drawing, painting, or photograph, or three-dimensional, such as a carving or sculpture. Images may be displayed through other media, including a pr ...

and

sensor fusion Sensor fusion is a process of combining sensor data or data derived from disparate sources so that the resulting information has less uncertainty than would be possible if these sources were used individually. For instance, one could potentially o ...

technologies for wide-angle cameras. On May 31, 2021, Ceva acquired Intrinsix, another semiconductor design company, for an estimated $33 million. On September 20, 2023, Cadence acquired Intrinsix Corporation from Ceva. In December 2023, Ceva launched a new brand identity reflecting its focus on smart edge IP innovation reflecting the company's commitment to being the partner of choice for transformative IP solutions that power the smart edge.

Technologies

Imaging and computer vision

Ceva develops technology for low-cost, low-power computational photography and

computer vision Computer vision tasks include methods for image sensor, acquiring, Image processing, processing, Image analysis, analyzing, and understanding digital images, and extraction of high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical ...

. The company provides vision DSP cores, deep neural network toolkits, real-time

software libraries In computing, a library is a collection of resources that can be leveraged during software development to implement a computer program. Commonly, a library consists of executable code such as compiled functions and classes, or a library can ...

, hardware accelerators, and algorithm developer ecosystems.

Deep learning

Ceva develops software for

deep neural network Deep learning is a subset of machine learning that focuses on utilizing multilayered neural network (machine learning), neural networks to perform tasks such as Statistical classification, classification, Regression analysis, regression, and re ...

s centered on the Ceva-XM computer vision and NeuPro AI cores. NeuPro is Ceva's family of low-power

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...

processors for deep learning. NeuPro processors are self-contained, specialize
AI processors
scaling in performance for a broad range of end markets including IoT, smartphones, surveillance, automotive, robotics, medical, and industrial. 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.

Wireless IoT

Wireless connectivity
is often used in devices being created for the

Internet of things Internet of things (IoT) describes devices with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other communication networks. The IoT encompasse ...

(IoT). Ceva develops

ultra-wideband Ultra-wideband (UWB, ultra wideband, ultra-wide band and ultraband) is a radio technology that can use a very low energy level for short-range, high-bandwidth communications over a large portion of the radio spectrum. UWB has traditional applicat ...

, and

narrowband IoT Narrowband Internet of things (NB-IoT) is a low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) radio technology standard developed by 3GPP for cellular network devices and services. The specification was frozen in 3GPP Release 13 ( LTE Advanced Pro), in June ...

integrated wireless IoT platforms for integration into a

system on a chip A system on a chip (SoC) is an integrated circuit that combines most or all key components of a computer or Electronics, electronic system onto a single microchip. Typically, an SoC includes a central processing unit (CPU) with computer memory, ...

(SoC).

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