Public | |
Traded as |
NASDAQ: CEVA S&P 600 Component |
Industry | Semiconductor IP |
Founded | 2002 |
Headquarters | Mountain View, California, United States |
Products | Digital signal processors |
Revenue | US$72.6 million (2016) |
Profit | $13.1 million (2016) |
Number of employees
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270 (December 2016) |
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.
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).
The company develops semiconductor intellectual property core technologies for multimedia and wireless communications technology. CEVA claimed the largest number of baseband processors in 2010, and a 90% DSP IP market share in 2011. In July 2014 it acquired RivieraWaves SAS, a private company based in France.
The CEVA-XC4000 is a programmable low-power DSP architecture supporting communication standards including LTE Advanced, LTE and HSPA+, alongside WiMAX, 3G, 3.5G, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, GPS and DVB-H. The CEVA-XC4000 architecture offers modem developers a wide spectrum of performance capabilities while complying with the most stringent power constraints.
The CEVA-XC is a low-power communication processor family designed for wireless communications processing in mobile handsets as well as wireless infrastructure applications. A single CEVA-XC core is capable of handling complete transceiver paths for multiple air interfaces in software.