TMCnet News
CEVA Extends its Leadership in High Performance Scalable Sensor Hub DSPs with 2nd Generation SensPro FamilyROCKVILLE, Md., Jan. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA), the leading licensor of wireless connectivity and smart sensing technologies, today introduced its 2nd generation SensPro DSP family, a hub for AI and DSP processing workloads associated with a wide range of sensors including camera, Radar, LiDAR, Time-of-Flight, microphones and inertial measurement units (IMUs). SensPro2™ builds on CEVA's industry leadership in sensor hub DSPs, delivering 6X more DSP processing for computer vision, 8X more DSP performance for Radar processing, a 2X improvement in AI inferencing, and 20% more power efficient versus its predecessor, at the same process node. The SensPro2 family has been expanded to include seven vector DSP cores, scaling in power and performance. The new entry-level cores address DSP and AI workloads requiring up to 1 TOPS AI performance and the high-end cores reach 3.2 TOPS. Each of the SensPro2 family members can be configured with application-specific instruction set architectures (ISAs) for radar, audio, computer vision and SLAM, along with parallel vector compute options for floating point and integer data types, to get the highest efficiency sensor hub DSP for their specific use-case. "Our new SensPro2 family of power-efficient sensor hub DSPs offers scalable performance, multiple precisions and high utilization for the increasingly complex and diverse AI/sensor workloads of contextually-aware devices," said Ran Snir, Vice President of R&D at CEVA. "The SensPro2 architecture is unique and innovative and uses a common ISA enabling seamless software reusability across all the SensPro2 DSPs. Our customers highly value this, along with the application-specific ISAs, as they increasingly utilize SensPro2 cores in their product designs." The SensPro2 architecture adopts a range of enhancements that have increased the performance and boosted efficiency for multitasking sensing and AI use cases, such as a new low power vector DSP architecture. For automotive powertrain applications, the upgraded floating-point DSPs offer high-precision performance, addressing the electrification trend with a powerful processor. Moreover, the SensPro2 architecture and cores are automotive ready with ASIL B hardware random faults and ASIL D systematic fault certification. In terms of performance, SensPro2 is capable of delivering up to 3.2 TOPS for 8x8 networks inferencing running at 1.6GHz, and doubles the memory bandwidth from the 1st generation, to more efficiently address data-intensive fully-connected layers. The 2nd generation SensPro DSP family consists of:
Availability The SensPro2 architecture and cores are available now for general licensing. For more information, visit https://www.ceva-dsp.com/product/ceva-SensPro/. About CEVA, Inc.
Logo - https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/74483/ceva__inc__logo.jpg View original content:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ceva-extends-its-leadership-in-high-performance-scalable-sensor-hub-dsps-with-2nd-generation-senspro-family-301206154.html SOURCE CEVA, Inc. |