- Extending its Smart Edge IP leadership,
Ceva-NeuPro-Nano™ received the Best IP/Processor of the
year
- Ceva-NeuPro-Nano NPUs deliver optimal balance of ultra-low
power and best performance in small area to efficiently execute
embedded AI workloads in consumer, industrial and
general-purpose AIoT products
ROCKVILLE, Md., Dec. 5, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- Ceva, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA), the leading licensor of
silicon and software IP that enables Smart Edge devices to connect,
sense and infer data more reliably and efficiently, announced today
that the Ceva-NeuPro-Nano NPUs have been awarded the Best IP/
Processor of the Year award at the prestigious EE Awards Asia
event, recently hosted in Taipei.
The award-winning Ceva-NeuPro-Nano NPUs deliver the power,
performance and cost efficiencies needed for semiconductor
companies and OEMs to integrate Embedded AI models into their SoCs
for consumer, industrial, and general-purpose AIoT products.
Embedded AI models are artificial intelligence algorithms and
systems that are integrated directly into hardware devices and run
locally on the device rather than relying on cloud processing. By
addressing the specific performance challenges of embedded AI, the
Ceva-NeuPro-Nano NPUs aim to make AI ubiquitous, economical and
practical for a wide range of use cases, spanning voice, vision,
predictive maintenance, and health sensing in consumer and
industrial IoT applications.
Iri Trashanski, Chief Strategy Officer of Ceva, commented:
"Winning Best IP/ Processor of the Year from EE Awards Asia is a
testament to the innovation and excellence of our NeuPro-Nano NPUs
which bring cost effective AI processing to power-constrained
devices. Connectivity, sensing and inference are the three key
pillars shaping a smarter, more efficient future, and we are proud
to lead the way with our unrivalled IP portfolio addressing these
three use cases."
The Ceva-NeuPro-Nano Embedded AI NPU architecture is fully
programmable and efficiently executes Neural Networks, feature
extraction, control code and DSP code, and supports most advanced
machine learning data types and operators including native
transformer computation, sparsity acceleration and fast
quantization. This optimized, self-sufficient and single core
architecture enables Ceva-NeuPro-Nano NPUs to deliver superior
power efficiency, with a smaller silicon footprint, and optimal
performance compared to the existing processor solutions used for
embedded AI workloads which utilize a combination of CPU or DSP
with AI accelerator-based architectures. Furthermore,
Ceva-NetSqueeze AI compression technology directly processes
compressed model weights, without the need for an intermediate
decompression stage. This enables the Ceva-NeuPro-Nano NPUs to
achieve up to 80% memory footprint reduction, solving a key
bottleneck inhibiting the broad adoption of AIoT processors
today.
The NPUs are delivered with a complete AI SDK - Ceva-NeuPro
Studio - which is a unified AI stack that delivers a common set of
tools across the entire Ceva-NeuPro NPU family, supporting open AI
frameworks including LiteRT for Microcontrollers (formerly
TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers) and microTVM.
The EE Awards Asia celebrate the best products, companies, and
individuals across the continent's highly regarded electronics
industry. Judging and selection is undertaken by a global panel of
experts, who select the shortlist before the EETimes reader
communities of EE Times and EDN in Taiwan and Asia cast their votes.
Availability
Ceva-NeuPro-Nano NPUs are available for
licensing today. For more information, visit:
https://www.ceva-ip.com/product/ceva-neupro-nano/
About Ceva, Inc.
At Ceva, we are passionate about
bringing new levels of innovation to the smart edge. Our wireless
communications, sensing and Edge AI technologies are at the heart
of some of today's most advanced smart edge products. From wireless
connectivity IPs (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, UWB and 5G platform IP),
to scalable Edge AI NPU IPs and
sensor fusion solutions, we have the broadest portfolio of IP to
connect, sense and infer data more reliably and efficiently. We
deliver differentiated solutions that combine outstanding
performance at ultra-low power within a very small silicon
footprint. Our goal is simple – to deliver the silicon and software
IP to enable a smarter, safer, and more interconnected world. This
philosophy is in practice today, with Ceva powering more than 18
billion of the world's most innovative smart edge products from
AI-infused smartwatches, IoT devices and wearables to autonomous
vehicles and 5G mobile networks.
Our headquarters are in Rockville,
Maryland with a global customer base supported by operations
worldwide. Our employees are among the leading experts in their
areas of specialty, consistently solving the most complex design
challenges, enabling our customers to bring innovative smart edge
products to market.
Ceva: Powering the Smart Edge™
Visit us at www.ceva-ip.com and follow us on LinkedIn, X,
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