June 18 – CEVA (NASDAQ:CEVA), a leading licensing company for Silicon Intellectual Property (SIP) platform solutions and DSP cores, today released a TD-SCDMA software library fully optimized for the CEVA-XC DSP core family, including the recently announced CEVA-XC4000 series.

This demonstrates the value and flexibility of a software-based approach in implementing next-generation multimode modems by newly adding a TD-SCDMA library to the existing CEVA-XC SDR (Software-Defined Radio) platform.

By supporting HSPA, HSPA+, LTE, TD-LTE, LTE-A, TD-LTE-A, and TD-SCDMA in software, CEVA-XC provides a universal modem platform that meets the demands of semiconductor manufacturers and mobile phone OEMs who want their designs to be widely utilized by various carriers worldwide. To comply with mandatory compliance requirements for modem designs targeting China Mobile, the world's largest wireless operator, the inclusion of TD-SCDMA, the 3G wireless standard for the Chinese region, is essential.

Will Strauss, president of wireless market research firm Forward Concepts, stated, “Today, TD-SCDMA mobile phones equipped with CEVA are being shipped in large quantities within China from companies including Samsung, HTC, ZTE, and Huawei,” adding, “As the Chinese wireless industry moves toward TD-LTE in the coming years, all wireless vendors must necessarily maintain backward compatibility with the TD-SCDMA standard.”

He said, “CEVA’s SDR platform for multimode LTE chipsets enables software support for standards such as TD-SCDMA,” adding, “Furthermore, the addition of the TD-SCDMA software library significantly reduces the development burden, allowing CEVA customers targeting the rapidly growing Chinese wireless market to bring their products to market in a timely manner.”

CEVA's TD-SCDMA library includes a complete physical layer transceiver and is optimized to run on the CEVA-XC DSP, the most widely used communications DSP architecture in the industry for LTE/LTE-A modem designs.

CEVA's SDR platform provides a multimode solution optimized to significantly reduce the cost, time to market, and risk associated with software-based communication processor design, along with the most recently announced software libraries for LTE-A, LTE, HSPA+, and Wi-Fi 802.11ac. The TD-SCDMA library has already been implemented in an LTE multimode modem from a leading baseband vendor.

Eran Briman, Vice President of Marketing at CEVA, stated, “The addition of a fully optimized TD-SCDMA software library is another clear indication of the power and flexibility of the CEVA-XC DSP family for multimode communication processor design,” adding, “By supporting the TD-SCDMA wireless standard for baseband vendors targeting China Mobile, the world’s largest wireless operator with over 650 million subscribers, it significantly reduces the entry barriers and design difficulties they face.”

CEVA’s TD-SCDMA software library supports the latest TD-SCDMA technology compliant with 3GPP Rel-9 worst-case conditions and allows customers to configure interleavers, rate matching, modulation types (8PSK, QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM), HARQ, and others as needed. This library has received preliminary certification with Synopsys SPW tools and enables faster system design by utilizing Synopsys’ DSP model library.

CEVA's DSP cores are used by several global wireless semiconductor manufacturers, providing unrivaled power consumption, performance, and cost efficiency in 2G, 3G, and 4G solutions. To date, CEVA has been applied to more than 40 mobile phone baseband designs, including over 15 designs for LTE.

The CEVA-XC DSP family is specifically designed to overcome the stringent power consumption, time-to-market, and cost constraints associated with the development of high-performance SDR multimode solutions. It also supports wireless interfaces for various applications such as multimode mobile phone baseband, connectivity, digital broadcasting, and smart grids. More detailed information can be found at http://www.ceva-dsp.com/CEVA-XC-Family.html .