Turnkey eNB-IoT Release 15 & multi-constellation GNSS IP solution for IoT devices

Overview

Ceva has designed a complete eNB-IoT IP solution that can serve a wide range of applications. The Ceva-Waves Dragonfly NB2 pre-integrates together a Ceva-BX1 processor, an optimized RF Transceiver, a baseband, and a protocol stack to offer a complete Release 15 Cat-NB2 modem IP solution that reduces time-to-market and lowers entry barriers. The Ceva-Waves Dragonfly NB2 is a fully software-configurable solution that can be extended with multi-constellation GNSS and sensor fusion functionality. It includes a reference silicon of the complete modem design, including an embedded CMOS RF transceiver, an advanced digital front-end, physical layer firmware, and a protocol stack (MAC, RLC, PDCP, RRC, and NAS).
For broader foundry process selection, the Ceva-Waves Dragonfly NB2 solution can also be used with partners' RF transceiver or customer own.

Key Features

Software components:
- eNB-IoT Release 15 UE protocol stack
- L1 control and physical layer (PHY)
- Encryption and PHY eNB-IoT libraries
- RTOS & drivers
- GNSS software for GPS and Beidou
Hardware components:
- eNB-IoT and GNSS digital front-ends
- Ceva-BX1 processor with dedicated eNB-IoT and GNSS instructions
- Peripherals include USIM and eSIM interfaces
- SoC Infrastructure
- Dual-mode eNB-IoT and GNSS RF Transceiver: full CMOS RF receiver and transmitter, LNA, PA, DC-DC, DCXO

Benefits

Fully integrated silicon reference design for eNB-IoT and GNSS
Lets customers focus on development and integration of application level software and use-case specific workloads with pre-integrated eNB-IoT modem
Reduces time-to-market and lowers entry barriers
Single-processor, software-configurable solution is guaranteed future proof for future NB-IoT updates and enhancements
Supports addition of GNSS and Sensor Fusion workloads

Block Diagram

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CEVA-Dragonfly NB2 - the World’s First eNB-IoT Rel15 Solution

CEVA-Dragonfly NB2 is a highly-integrated and modular solution optimized for Cat-NB2 (3GPP Release 15 eNB-IoT) that can seamlessly be incorporated into chips and modules by the multitude of companies looking to address the large and fast-growing cellular IoT space. Key Benefits include: - Reduces time-to-market with fully integrated reference silicon, that enables real-time, over the air, system and software development in parallel with SoC development - Single-processor, software-configurable solution is guaranteed futureproof for LTE Release 15 updates

Applications

NB-IoT modem
M2M
MTC
Asset Tracker
Smart city
Industrial

Deliverables

Hardware:
- Verilog
- testbench with test suite
- compilation, simulation and synthesis scripts
- documents
Software:
- binary or C code
- documents
- option: system level tracer and validation tools running on Windows

Technical Specifications

Maturity

In Production

Availability

Available

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