CEVA Services CEVA Services is the consulting and integration division of CEVA that helps our customers move efficiently and effectively from IP to silicon. CEVA Services helps to reduce the cost of, and speed the time-to-market for, our customers' advanced integrated circuit (IC) and complex System-on-Chip (SoCs) solutions for wireless, digital multimedia, communications and storage markets. By providing complete support from concept to silicon incorporating CEVA IP, customers of CEVA Services leverage the vast expertise and knowledge that CEVA has amassed as a leading licensor of semiconductor IP. Why CEVA Services Works For You: Enables the "Path to Silicon" for customers. Semiconductor companies face increasing challenges of successfully implementing the path to silicon from conception to delivery, while trying to manage the inherent risks of time to market, cost, and overhead. CEVA Services helps our customers mitigate these risks by providing a robust integration and implementation team to reduce the time to market, cost and fixed cost overhead of our customers. CEVA understands the application solution of our customers. We offer software and hardware solutions that are focused on specific end markets such as cellular communications, digital multimedia and storage. CEVA Services leverages our expertise and IP in these vertical markets to help provide a complete solution for customers Ability to source IP from a wide universe and have the ability to qualify and/or create IP. As a world-leading provider of semiconductor IP, CEVA is uniquely qualified to be a one-stop source for all IP needed in a semiconductor design. Whether provided by our customers, licensed from CEVA or procured from a third-party, CEVA Services can integrate these IP blocks into a unified design flow for seamless execution of the chip design.
		Key Benefits Provides customized deployments of our DSP and Communications IP Leverages the CEVA-XS platform approach to DSP IP Leverages our expertise in providing solutions for vertical markets Cellular Digital Multimedia Wireless Storage Reduces the integration risks faced by customers Speeds customer's time to market Improves customer's financial and business flexibility through outsourcing of designs
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Heritage of complex design.
CEVA Services has a rich history of providing complex semiconductor designs and implementations. With over 50 successful designs in areas such as wireless modem platforms, Bluetooth, WiFi, Digital Radio, Serial ATA, audio processing, video encoding and digital still imaging, CEVA Services stands as a leader in providing services pertaining next generation technologies and semiconductor designs.

Mitigate the risk for the customer and commit to delivery of more than just the DSP core.
By choosing CEVA Services, our customers can greatly reduce the risk associated with the integration of a DSP core or communications IP into a complex semiconductor design

CEVA Services Legacy/Heritage

CEVA has an experienced design team with an average of 10 years experience
CEVA offers a comprehensive blend of R&D skills
Digital
Mixed Signal
VLSI
Layout
Proven design flow and methodology
Over 50 major deployments completed
Precedent designs in markets such as:
Wireless:
Modem platforms
Bluetooth BB/RF
WiFi BB
Digital Radio
Serial Communications:
SATA 1.5G PHY/MAC
SGMII PHY/MAC
SAS PHY/MAC
SCUSI PHY/MAC
Fibre Channel PHY/MAC
Digital Multimedia :
Audio Processor:
Home HiFi
Automotive
Video:
MPEG4 Encode/Decode
H.264 Encode/Decode
Digital Camera:
Image processor
CD/DVD:
Read/Write

Services Offered

CEVA Services Consultation

Consultation and Engagement: The engagement process with CEVA Services can being with customers and CEVA co-developing the environmental requirements, power, performance, gate count and test coverage target of the desired chip. Once in place, CEVA Services will provide the roadmap for ASIC function, hardware & software interfaces, the device architecture, verification strategy, design flow, DFT strategy, clock & reset architecture, power management strategy and a comprehensive development schedule and resources estimate

Systems Architectural Design: These services include system level analysis of product feature set requirements, computing and communications bandwidth analysis, hardware & software partitioning, cost, schedule and usability

ASIC and SoC Designs: These services include microarchitectural design, behavioral design, RTL design, logic synthesis, power management, DFT, timing analysis and closure, formal verification and physical design.

Customization of IP: In addition to providing off the shelf IP, CEVA Services can also customize IP for our customers

DSP Core Hardening

CEVA Services can also provide a specification for the complete customization and physical implementation of any of the DSP cores in our product suite, each customized to a specific library and process. With this customized and hardened IP, the core is optimized for a specific technology, per single set of area/timing/power parameters

IP Sourcing

IP sourcing & integration, including customers IP and/or 3rd party IP: CEVA Services can assists our customers in sourcing and integrating third-party IP into the CEVA Services design flow. As a leading provider of IP, we maintain relationships with many of the other suppliers of IP, thus making it easy to facilitate a relationship between these suppliers and customers of CEVA Services.

SoC Implementation, driven and managed by CEVA Services

CEVA Services will engage with a customer at any level of abstraction from specification to deliver of GDSII. The two most common forms of engagement are:
Specification to GDSII
RTL to GDSII

CEVA Services Product Note

For a more detailed look at the CEVA Services offering, Download the CEVA Services Overview ( pdf, 104kb)

Request Further Information

For further information on CEVA Services and related offerings, contact sales@ceva-dsp.com