Multi-protocol wireless plaform integrating 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6), Bluetooth 5.4 Dual Mode, 802.15.4 (for Thread, Zigbee and Matter)

Overview

Key Features

• Highly versatile multi-protocol wireless connectivity solutions leveraging the latest and market proven Ceva-Waves integrated hardware IP and software platforms, including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth (Classic and LE), 802.15.4 (for Thread, Zigbee and Matter) and UWB
• Optimized co-existence schemes for each specific configuration
• Pre-integrated radio solutions, including RF from Ceva and various partners addressing a wide range of configurations and foundry process nodes
• Easily adaptable to other RF implementations including customer’s own in-house developments
• Hardware-accelerated embedded security modes and encryption to fully comply with the most demanding wireless-standard specifications
• Complemented by Ceva’s extensive IP portfolio of Edge AI, audio, voice and sensing solutions

Benefits

• Implementing several connectivity standards in one SoC is a frequent requirement, but it has the potential to become far more complex than just the sum of the parts. Not only does the design require use-case-optimized MAC and PHY hardware IP and comprehensive protocol software for each mode, but it is necessary to efficiently interface each PHY to co-located radios or a shared radio. And operation of all the hardware must be orchestrated to avoid peak power issues, contention for the radio, or mutual interference between modes. Ceva-Waves Links solves all these problems by providing preconfigured, integrated, and optimized instances of MAC and PHY IP and software from the field-proven Ceva-Waves platform family. Members of the family span the performance range from energy-efficient IoT connectivity solutions to complex high-performance connectivity hubs. The IP designs provide hardware offload for key computational tasks including security, encryption, and difficult MAC functions. This not only speeds implementation of each individual module but avoids the potentially treacherous problem of integrating the modules and understanding their interactions. Thus, the Ceva-Waves Links platforms can provide very substantial reductions in design time and risk for multi-protocol SoCs, while providing state of the art performance for a broad range of applications including TWS earbuds, XR headsets, smart speakers, hearing aids, home audio, gaming, smart home, medical, automotive, smart watches and other consumer, wearable and Smart Edge AI IoT devices.

Block Diagram

Applications

• IoT, smart home, industrial, smart watch

Deliverables

• Hardware: verilog RTL, testbench, compilation, simulation and synthesis scripts
• Software: C code packages for each wireless protocol
• Documents

Technical Specifications