MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
April 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/
-- CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA); (LSE: CVA), the leading licensor
of silicon intellectual property (SIP) platform solutions and DSP
cores, today announced the availability of the industry's first
implementation of the popular Skype™ SILK™ super wideband speech
codec on a DSP core. Optimized for the 32-bit CEVA-TeakLite-III
family of audio DSPs and forward compatible with future versions of
the widely-used CEVA-TeakLite DSP architecture, CEVA's
implementation of the SILK codec delivers a high quality,
cost-efficient voice communications solution for both mobile and
digital home applications, with significant power savings compared
to alternative solutions.
The SILK super wideband 24 KHz codec, developed and used by
Skype, enables high quality voice communications through PC, mobile
device and Smart TV applications. The computational complexity of
wideband codecs, including the SILK codec, requires native 32-bit
data processing rather than traditional 16 or 24-bit DSPs in order
to achieve the optimal performance. The CEVA-TeakLite-III DSP is
the only mass market proven native 32-bit DSP IP core that has been
specifically architected to address these stringent wideband codec
performance requirements.
For the many CEVA customers and partners already deploying the
widely-deployed CEVA-TeakLite-III DSP for voice/audio processing in
their mobile and digital home SoCs, this implementation of SILK
enables them to easily embed this super wideband speech codec for
Skype support into their existing designs.
"We are pleased to add support for this highly popular voice
codec to the more than 90 other voice and audio codecs in the
CEVA-TeakLite ecosystem. Skype has gained worldwide penetration as
a reliable and widely available voice communications application
that can be used in a variety of end products. The combination of
our native 32-bit processing with the low power capabilities of the
CEVA-TeakLite-III DSP will benefit product developers who wish to
efficiently incorporate Skype support into their devices," said
Moshe Sheier, director of product
marketing at CEVA.
The CEVA-TeakLite-III is a native 32-bit, high performance audio
DSP core, used in mobile application processors, audio CODEC chips,
baseband processor chips and home entertainment main SoCs, to
handle, among other tasks, advanced audio and voice scenarios, such
as multi-microphone noise suppression for clearer voice
communication and multi-stream audio playback with various
post-processing functions. The DSP-based solution includes a
configurable cached memory subsystem, a comprehensive set of
optimized audio and voice codecs, and complete software development
kit, including software development tools, prototype boards, test
chips, system drivers and RTOS.
About CEVA, Inc.
CEVA is the world's leading licensor of silicon
intellectual property (SIP) DSP cores and platform solutions for
the mobile handset, portable and consumer electronics markets.
CEVA's IP portfolio includes comprehensive technologies for
cellular baseband (2G / 3G / 4G), multimedia (HD video, Image
Signal Processing (ISP) and HD audio), voice over packet (VoP),
Bluetooth, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA). In
2011, CEVA's IP was shipped in over 1 billion devices and powers
handsets from every top handset OEM, including Nokia, Samsung, HTC,
LG, Motorola, Sony, Huawei and ZTE. Today, more than 40% of
handsets shipped worldwide are powered by a CEVA DSP core. For more
information, visit www.ceva-dsp.com. Follow CEVA on twitter at
www.twitter.com/cevadsp.
SOURCE CEVA, Inc.