Socionext Deploys CEVA’s Imaging DSP for Milbeaut Image Processors

25 October, 2015

Socionext was established in March 2015, when Panasonic and Fujitsu span off their LSI business unit, to create a new, 2,600 employees giant in the fields semiconductor chips for Optical Communication and Image/Video Processing

Socionext was established in March 2015, when Panasonic and Fujitsu span off their LSI business unit, to create a new, 2,600 employees giant in the fields semiconductor chips for Optical Communication and Image/Video Processing

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The Japanese Semiconductor newly formed vendor, Socionext Inc., has licensed and deployed the CEVA imaging and vision DSP  to power its latest-generation Milbeaut image processing LSI chips for surveillance, digital SLR, drones, action and other camera-enabled devices. The first Milbeaut image processor integrating the CEVA DSP is the MB86S27 which was announced today and will shortly be in volume production.

“The inclusion of the CEVA imaging and vision DSP in our Milbeaut series of image processors allows our customers to take advantage of its powerful vector processing engine,” said Mitsugu Naito, Corporate Vice President Head of Business Group Ⅲ at Socionext. “The DSP is ideal choice for our imaging processing products.”

CEVA’s imaging and vision DSPs offload performance-intensive tasks from the CPUs and GPUs, and reduce the power consumption of the overall system. 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 an Android Multimedia Framework (AMF) that 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.

Socionext is a new enterprise that designs, develops and delivers System-on-Chip products to customers worldwide. The company was established in March 2015, when Panasonic and Fujitsu span off their LSI business unit, to create a new, 2,600 employees giant in the fields semiconductor chips for optical communication systems and image/video processing.

CEVA’s DSP IP portfolio includes comprehensive platforms for multimode 2G/3G/LTE/LTE-A baseband processing in terminals and infrastructure, computer vision and computational photography for any camera-enabled device, audio/voice/speech and ultra-low power always-on/sensing applications for multiple IoT markets. For connectivity, it offers IP for Bluetooth (Smart and Smart Ready), Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g/n/ac up to 4×4) and serial storage (SATA and SAS). The company sais that one in every three phones sold worldwide is powered by CEVA by customers such as  Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, Lenovo, HTC, LG, Coolpad, ZTE, Micromax and Meizu.

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