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Traded as | NASDAQ: CEVA S&P 600 Component |
Industry | Semiconductors |
Founded | 2002 |
Headquarters | , United States |
Products | Signal processing platforms and AI processors |
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Number of employees | 313 [1] (2017) |
Website | www |
CEVA is a publicly listed semiconductor intellectual property (IP) company, headquartered in Mountain View, California and specializes in digital signal processor (DSP) technology. The company's main development facility is located in Herzliya, Israel and Sophia Antipolis, France. CEVA was recently named in the Israeli 100 companies list of technologies that changed the world. [2]
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Mountain View is a city located in Santa Clara County, California, United States, named for its views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. From its origins as a stagecoach stop, it grew to a large suburb with a pedestrian-friendly downtown and a population of 74,066. The city borders Palo Alto and the San Francisco Bay to the north, Los Altos to the south, and Moffett Federal Airfield and Sunnyvale to the east.
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CEVA was created in November 2002, through the combination of the DSP IP licensing division of DSP Group and Parthus Technologies plc (an Irish company that was founded in 1993). [3]
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The company develops semiconductor intellectual property core technologies for multimedia and wireless communications technology. CEVA claimed the largest number of baseband processors in 2010, [4] and a 90% DSP IP market share in 2011. [5] In July 2014 it acquired RivieraWaves SAS, a private company based in France. [1]
A baseband processor is a device in a network interface that manages all the radio functions ; however, this term is generally not used in reference to Wi-Fi and Bluetooth radios. A baseband processor typically uses its own RAM and firmware.
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The company designs wireless and wired connectivity IPs for embedded designs targeting mobile, wearables, consumer electronic s, industrial, automotive and IoT markets. Among other wired and LPWA technologies, the company licenses solutions for Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax, Classic Bluetooth, Bluetooth low-energy (BLE), and Bluetooth dual-mode (BTDM). The RivieraWaves Wi-Fi IP family is a comprehensive suite of SoC/ASSP-embeddable platforms for Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac. Each RivieraWaves Wi-Fi platform incorporates PHY modem functions and MAC functions, including Lower MAC (LMAC) and Full MAC software stacks that are processor- and operating-system-agnostic to allow deployment on various embedded processors. The RivieraWaves Wi-Fi family consists of the following platforms:
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