Ceva (semiconductor company)

CEVA develops solutions for low-cost, low-power computational photography and computer vision for a variety of markets including mobile, automotive, surveillance, drones, AR/VR, wearables, action cameras and photography gear[8]. The company provides vision DSP cores, deep neural network toolkits, real-time software libraries, hardware accelerators, and algorithm developer ecosystems. The goal of these solutions to deliver human-like visual perception to mass-market embedded devices, by offering a far more efficient solution that existing vision engines typically powered by GPUs.

CEVA Deep Neural Network (CDNN) toolkit  is part of an integrated hardware and software IP platform centered on the CEVA-XM computer vision and NeuPro AI cores[9]. The CDNN toolkit’s aim is to simplify the development and deployment of deep learning systems on embedded devices and facilitate real-time execution in time-critical use cases, such as autonomous driving, sense-and-avoid drones, virtual and augmented reality, smart surveillance, smartphones, robotics, and other systems that utilize artificial intelligence for imaging and vision.

NeuPro is CEVA’s newest family of dedicated low-power AI processors for deep learning at the edge[10]. NeuPro processors are self-contained, specialized AI processors, scaling in performance for a broad range of end markets including IoT, smartphones, surveillance, automotive, robotics, medical and industrial[11]. This group of products offers high-performance configurations ranging from 2 Tera Ops Per Second (TOPS) for the entry-level processor and 12.5 TOPS for the most advanced configuration.