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Unified for Pioneering Wireless
Solutions
AMBER
wireless
GmbH,
manufacturer
of
wireless
connectivity solutions, is part
of Würth Elektronik eiSos
GmbH & Co. KG now. With the
merger the owner-run wireless
specialist founded in 1998 lays
the foundation for its further
growth and the globalization of
its activities. Through the
acquisition, Würth Elektronik
eiSos considerably expands
its range in growth fields,
such as Internet of Things,
Industry 4.0 and Smart
Metering.
CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA), the
leading licensor of signal processing
IP for smarter, connected devices,
today announced that Novatek
Microelectronics, Taiwan’s 2nd
largest fabless IC design house, has
licensed and deployed the CEVA-XM4
intelligent vision DSP for its next-
generation vision-enabled System-
on-Chips (SoCs) targeting a range
of end markets requiring advanced
visual intelligence capabilities.
Novatek’s current camera SoC
lineup for car DVR and surveillance systems integrates the 3rd
generation CEVA-MM3101 imaging & vision DSP and is shipping
in volume.
By integrating CEVA-XM4 as a dedicated vision processor in their
next-generation SoC designs, Novatek and its customers can
rapidly deploy highly-sophisticated vision algorithms to enable
advanced applications such as surveillance systems with face
detection and authentication, drone anti-collision systems
and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). These types
of applications are built utilizing CEVA’s Deep Neural Network
(CDNN2), a proprietary software framework that enables deep
Würth Elektronik eiSos acquires AMBER wireless GmbH
Novatek Licenses CEVA-XM4 Imaging and Vision DSP for Embedded
Visual Intelligence
AMBER wireless is one of the
leading manufacturers of low
power ISM/SRD solutions in
Europe and offers highly efficient
wireless products in the 169 MHz,
433 MHz, 868 MHz, 915 MHz and
2.4 GHz frequency bands. These
wireless solutions are considered
to be important components
for growth-intensive application
areas, such as sensor networks,
Internet of Things, telemetry,
logistics, asset tracking, Smart
Metering, medical technology,
security systems, as well as
Smart Home, industry and
building automation.
“Integration of AMBER
learning tasks to run on the CEVA-
XM4 and outperform any GPU or
CPU-based system in terms of speed,
power consumption and memory
bandwidth requirements.
CEVA’s imaging and vision DSPs
address the extreme processing
requirements
of
the
most
sophisticated
computational
photography and computer vision
applications such as video analytics,
augmented reality and advanced
driver assistance systems (ADAS). By
offloading these performance-intensive tasks from the CPUs and
GPUs, the highly-efficient DSP dramatically reduces the power
consumption of the overall system, while providing complete
flexibility. The platform includes a vector processor developed
specifically to deal with the complexities of such applications
and an extensive Application Development Kit (ADK) to enable
easy development environment. The CEVA ADK includes CEVA-
Link, which streamlines software development and integration
effort, a set of advanced software development tools and a
range of software products and libraries optimized for the DSP.
At the formal signing of the acquisition agreement: (from l.
to r.) Christian Brych (Fellow partner AMBER Wireless GmbH),
Heinz Brych (Managing Director AMBER Wireless GmbH), Oliver
Opitz (Division Manager Strategic Product Development, Würth
Elektronik eiSos GmbH & Co. KG) and Tanja Hochschild (Post Merger
Integration Manager, Würth Elektronik eiSos GmbH & Co. KG)
Image source: Würth Elektronik eiSos
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