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March 17, 2008
CEVA And HuaXun Team To Introduce Software GPS Solution
By Niladri Sekhar Nath TMCnet Contributing Editor
Xi'an HuaXun Microelectronics and CEVA (News - Alert) have teamed to develop a software-based GPS solution for the CEVA-X family of DSP cores and the MM2000 portable multimedia platform. Designed for cell phones, portable multimedia players and portable navigation devices, this software-based GPS solution will enable CEVA-X and MM2000 licensees to add GPS capability to their baseband and multimedia SoCs without any hardware modifications.
“HuaXun is a leading GPS company in China that develops GPS baseband and RF solution. “There is a fast-growing demand for GPS solutions in the Chinese market, particularly for integration into portable navigation devices, mobile handset and portable media player applications,” said Mr. Peter Zhou, CEO of HuaXun. “The software GPS approach will allow ultra-low cost integration of high-performance GSP functionality into such devices.”
CEVA has a strong customer base in China's mobile and semiconductor industry. The company has developed CEVA-X DSP architecture that can deliver industry leading performance and energy-efficiency.
“The CEVA-X DSP Cores and the MM2000 platform are being adopted by a fast-growing number of IC vendors in Greater China, including leading mobile and multimedia chipset vendors,” said Eran Briman, vice president, corporate marketing at CEVA. “In collaboration with HuaXun we can now offer these customers the ability to add high-performance GPS functionality to CEVA-X and MM2000 based multimedia and cellular baseband designs without the added expense of hardware modifications.”
CEVA-X is a high performance DSP architecture framework, widely licensed for cellular baseband (3G/3.5G/LTE (News - Alert)/WiMAX
) and portable multimedia applications. The Very Long Instruction Word -- Single Instruction Multiple Data (VLIW-SIMD) DSP architecture offers low power consumption. The CEVA-X family of DSP cores includes the dual MAC CEVA-X1620 and CEVA-X1622, as well as the quad MAC CEVA-X1641.
CEVA's fully programmable mobile multimedia platform solution, MM2000 is based on CEVA-X DSP technology and offers fastest time-to-market for developing portable multimedia applications. MM2000 is configurable for a broad range of end markets, from low-cost video only applications through to complete multimedia solutions for high resolution media products.
Niladri Sekhar Nath is a contributing writer for TMCnet covering telecommunications, service providers and networking. To see more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.
Don’t forget to check out TMCnet’s White paper Library, which provides a selection of in-depth information on relevant topics affecting the IP Communications industry. The library offers white papers, case studies and other documents which are free to registered users.
“HuaXun is a leading GPS company in China that develops GPS baseband and RF solution. “There is a fast-growing demand for GPS solutions in the Chinese market, particularly for integration into portable navigation devices, mobile handset and portable media player applications,” said Mr. Peter Zhou, CEO of HuaXun. “The software GPS approach will allow ultra-low cost integration of high-performance GSP functionality into such devices.”
CEVA has a strong customer base in China's mobile and semiconductor industry. The company has developed CEVA-X DSP architecture that can deliver industry leading performance and energy-efficiency.
“The CEVA-X DSP Cores and the MM2000 platform are being adopted by a fast-growing number of IC vendors in Greater China, including leading mobile and multimedia chipset vendors,” said Eran Briman, vice president, corporate marketing at CEVA. “In collaboration with HuaXun we can now offer these customers the ability to add high-performance GPS functionality to CEVA-X and MM2000 based multimedia and cellular baseband designs without the added expense of hardware modifications.”
CEVA-X is a high performance DSP architecture framework, widely licensed for cellular baseband (3G/3.5G/LTE (News - Alert)/WiMAX
) and portable multimedia applications. The Very Long Instruction Word -- Single Instruction Multiple Data (VLIW-SIMD) DSP architecture offers low power consumption. The CEVA-X family of DSP cores includes the dual MAC CEVA-X1620 and CEVA-X1622, as well as the quad MAC CEVA-X1641.CEVA's fully programmable mobile multimedia platform solution, MM2000 is based on CEVA-X DSP technology and offers fastest time-to-market for developing portable multimedia applications. MM2000 is configurable for a broad range of end markets, from low-cost video only applications through to complete multimedia solutions for high resolution media products.
Niladri Sekhar Nath is a contributing writer for TMCnet covering telecommunications, service providers and networking. To see more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.
Don’t forget to check out TMCnet’s White paper Library, which provides a selection of in-depth information on relevant topics affecting the IP
Communications industry. The library offers white papers, case studies and other documents which are free to registered users.
