CEVA Unveils Wi-Fi IP Platforms to Enable a Broad Range of Connected Devices

By Franz Dugand - CEVA Blog, Jun. 11, 2015 – 

Wearables are the new epitome of consumer chic, and while they are increasingly connected to the Internet, they come under the Internet of Things (IoT) fold. Wearable devices are ramping up faster than even smartphones and tablets with a CAGR of 154 percent (Source: Morgan Stanley, Wearable Device Blue Paper, Nov 2014).

Today we, at CEVA, unveiled a new family of RivieraWaves Wi-Fi IP platforms -- ranging from 802.11n 1×1 for various IoT devices all the way up to 802.11ac 4×4 for gateway and infrastructure products -- allows system-on-chip (SoC) designers to seamlessly integrate Wi-Fi sockets into their chips with power and size efficiency.

CEVA offers the industry?s smallest Wi-Fi IPs for connected wearables, comprising of 802.11n 1×1 Full MAC and modem, which can be integrated with any RF IPs from various RF partners such as Catena or Maxscend. On the other end of the spectrum, for super-fast enterprise or public gateways, including for LTE networks offloading, CEVA offers Wi-Fi IP that boasts advanced features such as beam forming, multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO), space-time block code (STBC), low density parity check (LDPC), dynamic bandwidth management, Wi-Fi Direct and WAPI.

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