Silicon Valley’s CEVA (CEVA) says that China’s ZTE Corporation has licensed its CEVA-XC DSP to power its multi-mode base station system-on-chips.
Semiconductor companies designing DSPs (digital signal processors) for wireless base stations are increasingly focused on power management. CEVA said it has focused recent research and development efforts on creating architectures that meet the “stringent power consumption, time-to-market and cost constraints associated with developing high-performance multimode baseband solutions.”
“With its capability to support multiple air interface standards including LTE and 3G in one platform, the flexible CEVA-XC DSP is an outstanding processor architecture to serve the future needs of cellular base station SoCs,” said ZTE. “The processing power and the inherent low heat dissipation offered by the CEVA-XC allow us to implement a software-centric platform, simplifying our product development and maintenance, and significantly improving our overall base station efficiency.”
ZTE is one of two Chinese companies named in a recent Congressional report that warned American mobile operators about the possible security risk associated with telecommunications infrastructure equipment purchased from China. Both ZTE and Huawei deny allegations that their business decisions are subject to the control of the Chinese government. Both companies also sell most of their infrastructure equipment outside the United States.
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