CEVA provides baseband and application processor solutions to DigiBee
(Technology News, 12 Mar 2007 )
CEVA-a licensor of intellectual property (IP) platform solutions and DSP cores for wireless, consumer and multimedia applications-and DigiBee Microsystems, India's mobile handset design and manufacturing company announced that DigiBee has selected the CEVA-X1620 DSP and the CEVA-XS1200 system platform for its single-chip integrated baseband and application processor solutions.
These solutions are based on DigiBee's scalable and proprietary architecture utilizing a single RISC and a CEVA DSP platform, providing a very cost effective Communication and Application Processing (CAP) platform for its range of feature-rich, multimedia, GSM/GPRS/EDGE/3G mobile handsets. DigiBee is also using the CEVA-TeakLite-II DSP and Xpert-TeakLite-II subsystem for developing a wireless baseband processor solution targeting the cost-competitive mobile handset segment.
DigiBee has already developed the mobile platforms based on the CAP approach to power its portfolio of "value for money" GSM/GPRS/EDGE/3G mobile multimedia handsets using CEVA’s flagship CEVA-X DSP technology. DigiBee's solution utilizes the performance capabilities of the CEVA-XS1200 for multimedia processing using the dedicated multimedia instruction set and leveraging the DSP for executing compute-intensive baseband and multimedia functionality of the System-on-Chip (SoC).
Suresh Dholakia, CEO and president at DigiBee Microsystems, said, "The CEVA DSP-based portable multimedia and wireless technologies offer exceptional performance, innovative power-saving techniques and ease-of-integration for the development of our low-power multimedia and wireless solutions for GSM/GPRS/EDGE/3G handsets. In addition, CEVA's suite of software and hardware tools has enhanced our product development and helped us significantly reduce time-to-market for our handset products."
Gideon Wertheizer, CEO of CEVA, said, "We are pleased to announce DigiBee as a partner, having licensed our CEVA-X1620 DSP and CEVA-XS1200 system platform in addition to our CEVA-TeakLite-II DSP and Xpert-TeakLite-II subsystem. Our DSP-based multimedia platforms and wireless subsystems are optimised to deliver high-performance multimedia and baseband processing in low-power mobile applications. In choosing our industry solutions, DigiBee is equipped with the technology and resources to achieve faster time-to-market for a wide range of mobile multimedia and wireless products."
