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• Locix using Imagination's Ensigma Wi-Fi IP for high-performance local positioning (Thursday Oct. 17, 2019)
  Imagination Technologies announces that Locix has selected its Ensigma high-performance IEEE 802.11ac 2×2 MIMO Wi-Fi baseband and RF IP for use in its Locix LPS solution, a Wi-Fi-based, ultra-precise and cost-effective local positioning system for indoor and outdoor environments.
  
  
• SEAKR Selects Rambus SerDes and Security IP for Aerospace and Satellite Communications (Thursday Oct. 17, 2019)
  Rambus today announced that SEAKR® Engineering, a leading-edge provider of advanced electronics for space applications, selected the Rambus 28G Multi-protocol LR SerDes PHY and the CryptoManager Root of Trust for its next-generation ASIC and FPGA designs.
  
  
• Brite Semiconductor Begins Mass Production of Smart Meter Chips (Wednesday Oct. 16, 2019)
  Brite Semiconductor (“Brite”), a world-leading ASIC design solution provider headquartered in Shanghai today announced that two chips with RF & PLC communication for smart meter using Brite’s SoC design solutions and SMIC’s 40nm & 0.13um process has begun mass production.
  
  
• LG Launched Phone Powered by Gyrfalcon Technology Inc.'s AI Chip (Wednesday Oct. 09, 2019)
  The device uses GTI’s edge AI capabilities to improve the photo taking experience by end users by providing Image Enhancement and Real-time Video Bokeh Effect.
  
  
• UltraSoC selected by Japan's NSITEXE for automotive development (Monday Sep. 30, 2019)
  UltraSoC today announced that its embedded analytics technologies have been selected by Japanese company NSITEXE, Inc. (hereinafter, NSITEXE, a subsidiary of DENSO Corporation, the global automotive components manufacturer) to monitor performance and improve quality and reliability, particularly in future autonomous vehicle designs.
  
  
• Titan IC to Accelerate Pattern and String Matching on Mellanox's New BlueField-2 I/O Processing Unit (IPU) Device (Monday Sep. 30, 2019)
  Titan IC today announced that its cutting-edge hardware Regular eXpression Processor (RXP), has been selected to accelerate complex searches and pattern detection of the Mellanox BlueField-2® I/O Processing Unit (IPU) that empowers the next generation of secure cloud SmartNIC and Controller solutions.
  
  
• Intensivate Engages SiFive's RISC-V Expertise to Develop Leading Accelerator (Thursday Sep. 19, 2019)
  SiFive announced today that Intensivate has begun its production ramp after successfully implementing SiFive Tilelink and cache technologies to provide a chip-scale coherent fabric as part of the new, high-performance Intensivate PCIe Card.
  
  
• Veriest kick-starts Formal Verification methodology at Valens (Wednesday Sep. 18, 2019)
  Veriest Solutions announced today the successful completion of a project to introduce Formal Verification at Valens, the leading provider of HDBaseT connectivity solutions for the audio/video and automotive markets.
  
  
• Mixel's MIPI D-PHY IP Integrated into Microsoft's Azure Kinect DK Depth Camera (Tuesday Sep. 17, 2019)
  Mixel®, a leading provider of mixed-signal intellectual property (IP) announced today that Mixel's MIPI® IP has been successfully integrated into the Microsoft Azure Kinect developer kit, which is now in volume production.
  
  
• Infineon and Synopsys Collaborate to Accelerate Artificial Intelligence in Automotive Applications (Tuesday Sep. 17, 2019)
  Next-generation AURIX microcontrollers from Infineon will integrate a new high-performance AI accelerator called Parallel Processing Unit (PPU) that will employ Synopsys' DesignWare® ARC® EV Processor IP.
  
  
• Sri Lanka Telecom Selects Proven Partner Ecosystem to Deploy Large Scale TV Everywhere Experience in Island Nation (Monday Sep. 16, 2019)
  Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT), has selected a proven partner ecosystem, led by systems integrator Millennium I.T.E.S.P, to deploy its Personalised Entertainment Option (PEO) TV Go, the latest TV Everywhere solution complementing its pioneering IPTV service, SLT PEO TV.
  
  
• Advantech accelerates the move to IP with Adeas/Nextera ST2110/NMOS Core (Monday Sep. 16, 2019)
  Nextera Video and Adeas are proud to announce that Advantech, a leading global provider of video imaging products and solutions, is the latest to adopt their industry leading ST2110/NMOS FPGA core set for use in the Advantech VEGA video solution product line.
  
  
• SiTune Passes Milestone of Shipping Two Million 8K TV Silicon Tuners (STN6528) (Monday Sep. 16, 2019)
  SiTune today announced that it has shipped more than 2 million of its STN6528 dual concurrent ISDB-S3 Satellite and Terrestrial/Cable tuner used in 8K TVs.
  
  
• WiSig Networks License CEVA's Cellular IoT Technology to Serve the India Market (Tuesday Sep. 10, 2019)
  CEVA today announced that WiSig Networks has licensed the CEVA-Dragonfly NB2 IP solution for the rapid development of a 3GPP Rel.14 compliant eNB-IoT System-on-Chip (SoC).
  
  
• Nations Technologies Selects QuickLogic's ArcticPro eFPGA to Power its Next Generation Low Power IoT SoC (Wednesday Sep. 04, 2019)
  QuickLogic today announced that its ArcticPro™ embedded FPGA (eFPGA) has been selected by Nations Technologies in Shenzhen, China for its next-generation low power IoT System-on-Chip (SoC).
  
  
• NASA awards five 2019 SBIR/STTR Phase I research programs to Alphacore (Wednesday Sep. 04, 2019)
  Alphacore is please to announce it has received NASA awards for three SBIR and two STTR Phase 1 projects
  
  
• InnoGrit adopts M31's optimization solutions of PCIe 4.0/3.0 and ONFi 4.1 I/O IP cores for Artificial Intelligence Storage chips (Wednesday Sep. 04, 2019)
  M31 Technology and InnoGrit announced today of the two parties’ establishment of long-term collaboration. InnoGrit’s SSD IC has already adopted M31’s PCIe 4.0/3.0 and ONFi I/O IP cores in effort to actively deploy in AI applications of massive data storage.
  
  
• Moortec's 28nm Embedded Thermal Sensing Solution selected by InnoGrit to Optimise Performance and Reliability in their latest SSD Controller Chip (Monday Sep. 02, 2019)
  Moortec announced today that InnoGrit has chosen Moortec’s 28nm thermal sensing solution to optimise performance and increase reliability for InnoGrit’s recently announced Shasta and Shasta+ SSD controllers
  
  
• Mellanox Technologies Selects Verimatrix Silicon IP to Secure Family of Chipsets (Wednesday Aug. 28, 2019)
  
  
  
• Arasan and Xilinx announce their design win in providing a Total UFS 3.0 Solution to Wuhan Jingce (Monday Aug. 26, 2019)
  Arasan and Xilinx are proud to add Wuhan Jingce Electronics Technology to their impressive list of customers using the Arasan UFS 3.0 IP + MPHY 4.1 IP on Xilinx FPGA’s for production test applications.
  
  
• Tortuga Logic Verifies Rambus CryptoManager Root of Trust with Industry-Leading Security Verification Framework, Radix (Wednesday Aug. 14, 2019)
  Tortuga Logic, a cybersecurity company specializing in system-level security, today announced that it has independently verified the security of the Rambus CryptoManager Root of Trust with its Radix™ security verification framework. I
  
  
• Tortuga Logic's Radix Hardware Security Verification Solutions Licensed by Xilinx (Tuesday Jul. 30, 2019)
  Under the license, Xilinx will use Tortuga Logic's Radix™ series of security verification solutions to provide best in class security for the Xilinx programmable system-on-chip (SoC) portfolio.
  
  
• Wave Computing Signs New License Agreement with MediaTek (Tuesday Jul. 30, 2019)
  Wave Computing announced MediaTek has signed a new license agreement for Wave Computing’s MIPS® cores, designed for high-performance wireless communications, networking, automotive and AI applications, to fuel its next generation of connected products.
  
  
• Adesto's AFE IP Licensed by GCT Semiconductor for Advanced 4G LTE Modem (Wednesday Jul. 24, 2019)
  Adesto Technologies announces that GCT Semiconductor, a leading designer and supplier of advanced 4G and 5G mobile semiconductor solutions, selected multiple Adesto® IP cores for development of its next-generation 4G LTE Modem.
  
  
• WiSig Networks Adopts Palma Ceia SemiDesign for IoT Application Targeting Agricultural Environments (Monday Jul. 15, 2019)
  Palma Ceia SemiDesign (PCS) today announced WiSig Networks, an incubated company of Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, a developer of products for 5G wireless technology, has selected Palma Ceia’s NB-IoT transceiver for its latest product, an ecological monitoring and management system for use in agricultural applications.
  
  
• Arteris IP Ncore Cache Coherent Interconnect Licensed by Bitmain for Sophon TPU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Chips (Tuesday Jul. 09, 2019)
  Arteris IP today announced that Bitmain has licensed Arteris Ncore Cache Coherent Interconnect IP for use in its next-generation Sophon Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) systems-on-chip (SoCs) for the scalable hardware acceleration of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms.
  
  
• MorningCore Technology License CEVA DSP for High Performance Wireless and Automotive Communication Platforms (Wednesday Jun. 26, 2019)
  CEVA announced today that MorningCore Technology Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of China Information and Communication Technologies Group Corp (CICT), has licensed and deployed the CEVA-XC DSP in its family of software-defined radio (SDR) processors and platforms targeting high performance 4G/5G wireless and cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) applications.
  
  
• Arteris IP FlexNoC Interconnect Implemented in Uhnder Digital Automotive Radar-on-Chip (Tuesday Jun. 25, 2019)
  Arteris IP today announced that Uhnder’s new automotive radar-on-chip (RoC) uses the Arteris FlexNoC IP as the on-chip interconnect.
  
  
• Vidatronic Licenses Power Management Unit and Analog IP to Leading Semiconductor IP Company, Arm (Thursday Jun. 20, 2019)
  Vidatronic, Inc., a leading provider of analog, power management unit (PMU) and CMOS radio frequency (RF) Intellectual Property (IP) licenses, today announced that they will provide PMU and analog IP cores to multinational semiconductor and software design company, Arm, for use in their solutions.
  
  
• Nurlink Completes First Call on Commercial NB-IoT Network with its CEVA-powered eNB-IoT SoC (Wednesday Jun. 19, 2019)
  Nurlink Completes First Call on Commercial NB-IoT Network with its CEVA-powered eNB-IoT SoC June 19, 2019 Successful over-the-air call completed on China Telecom NB-IoT network with NK6010 Cat-NB2 SoC based on CEVA-Dragonfly NB2 IP MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and SAN DIEGO, June 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA), the leading licensor of signal processing platforms and artificial intelligence processors for smarter, connected devices, and Nurlink Technology, Inc., a fabless IC design company specializing in cellular IoT wireless communications, today announced the successful completion of the first over-the-air (OTA) call on China Telecom's NB-IoT network using the Nurlink NK6010 NB-IoT System-on-Chip (SoC). The test was carried out in Nanjing, China, with the Nurlink SoC connecting to China Telecom's Cloud IoT Platform over the NB-IoT network. It represents an important milestone towards the mass market production of Nurlink's CEVA-Dragonfly NB2 based SoC. "We are immensely proud to complete our first over-the-air call on one of the world's most-advanced NB-IoT networks in less than 15 months after beginning our SoC design," said Dr. Xiaohua Kong, Nurlink CEO. "The CEVA-Dragonfly NB2 platform, along with CEVA's excellent technical support, provided the solid foundation that enabled us to achieve this milestone so quickly." "CEVA is committed to ensuring that NB-IoT is the long-range connectivity 'standard-of-choice' for IoT devices by offering a comprehensive NB-IoT IP solution that significantly lowers the entry barriers for companies looking to integrate this technology into their SoC designs," said Ange Aznar, Vice President and General Manager of the Wireless IoT Business Unit at CEVA. "Nurlink's latest milestone is highly impressive and represents a strong endorsement of both the excellence of their engineering team and of the capabilities of our CEVA-Dragonfly NB2 IP to rapidly advance NB-IoT SoC design." NK6010 is an ultra-low cost and power-efficient NB-IoT SoC designed specifically for narrowband connectivity in mass market IoT devices such as smart meters, wearables, asset trackers and industrial sensors. Built based on the CEVA-Dragonfly NB2 solution, the SoC incorporates RF front-end, RF transceiver, cellular baseband, power management unit and application processor, to minimize the chip size and cost of the solution. It supports full NB-IoT frequency bands with major global carriers, ensuring smooth and rapid certification of devices on any NB-IoT commercial network around the world. The SoC also includes an extremely low-power multi-GNSS subsystem, which supports GPS/Beidou/Galileo/GLONASS global navigation systems. This subsystem allows fast positioning while also supporting highly-accurate device tracking. NK6010 is currently undergoing testing with operators worldwide and expected to enter mass production later this year. The CEVA-Dragonfly NB2 IP solution is a modular technology, composed of the CEVA-X1 IoT processor, an optimized RF Transceiver, baseband, and a protocol stack to offer a complete Release 14 Cat-NB2 modem IP solution that significantly reduces time-to-market and lowers entry barriers. It is a fully software-configurable solution and can be extended with multi-constellation GNSS and sensor fusion functionality. The IP includes a reference silicon of the complete modem design, including an embedded CMOS RF transceiver and PA, an advanced digital front-end, physical layer firmware, and a protocol stack (MAC, RLC, PDCP, RRC, and NAS). For more information, visit https://www.ceva-dsp.com/product/dragonfly. Join CEVA at #MWC19 Shanghai, June 26-28, and experience the full suite of CEVA connectivity and smart sensing IPs. For more information, visit https://www.ceva-dsp.com/event/mwc-shanghai-2019/. About Nurlink Nurlink Technology, founded in 2017, is a fabless IC design company with subsidiaries and offices in California, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Beijing, and Hong Kong. Leveraging its world-class talents in RF analog, modem, GNSS, and SoC systems and software, Nurlink Technology commits to delivering the best RF/SoC chips for powering the next-generation cellular IoT wireless communications, i.e. mMTC, while enhancing significant cost and performance advantages for customers. The current product portfolio from Nurlink Technology includes NB-IoT and cat-M SoCs, serving numerous markets including smart meter, smart city, wearables, asset tracking, and more. For more information visit http://www.nurlink.com. About CEVA, Inc. CEVA is the leading licensor of signal processing platforms and artificial intelligence processors for a smarter, connected world. We partner with semiconductor companies and OEMs worldwide to create power-efficient, intelligent and connected devices for a range of end markets, including mobile, consumer, automotive, industrial and IoT. Our ultra-low-power IPs for vision, audio, communications and connectivity include comprehensive DSP-based platforms for LTE/LTE-A/5G baseband processing in handsets, infrastructure and cellular IoT (NB-IoT and Cat-M) enabled devices, advanced imaging and computer vision for any camera-enabled device, audio/voice/speech and ultra-low power always-on/sensing applications for multiple IoT markets. For artificial intelligence, we offer a family of AI processors capable of handling the complete gamut of neural network workloads, on-device. For connectivity, we offer the industry's most widely adopted IPs for Bluetooth (low energy and dual mode) and Wi-Fi (Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n), Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) and Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) up to 4x4). Visit us at www.ceva-dsp.com