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Vendor:
Ceva, Inc.
Category:
Cellular
Scalable 5G modem platform
The Ceva-PentaG2 is a IP platform for implementing a wide range of user-equipment and IoT cellular modems.
Overview
The Ceva-PentaG2 is a complete IP platform for implementing a wide range of user-equipment and IoT cellular modems. The platform includes a variety of DSPs, modem hardware modules, software libraries, and simulation tools.
Capabilities of the Ceva-PentaG2 include New Radio (NR) physical layer design ranging across all 3GPP profiles from RedCap IoT and mMTC, through eMBB up to ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC).
The platform has two base configurations. Ceva-PentaG2 Max emphasizes performance and scalability for enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) and future proofing design for next generation 5G-Advanced releases. Ceva-PentaG2 Lite emphasizes extreme energy and area efficiency for lower-throughput applications such as LTE Cat 1, RedCap, and optimized cellular IoT applications.
The Solution
The PentaG2 platform comprises a set of Ceva DSP cores, optimized fixed-function hardware accelerators, and proven, optimized software modules. By using this platform, designers can implement optimized, hardware-accelerated processing chains for all main modem functions. In the selection process, designers can tune their design for any point across a huge space of area, power consumption, latency, throughput, and channel counts. Solutions can fit applications ranging from powerful eMBB for mobile and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) devices to connected vehicles, cellular IoT modules, and even smart watches. System-C models in Ceva’s Virtual Platform Simulator (VPS) aid architectural exploration and system tuning, while an FPGA-based emulation kit speeds SoC integration.
Key features
- Complete, scalable hardware IP and software modules for 5G and legacy LTE modems
- Employs Ceva-XC vector DSP and Ceva-BX2 scalar DSP cores and function-optimized hardware accelerators
- 5G PHY software for modulation, demodulation, standard 5G procedures, and L1 control
- Support for NR, eMBB, 5G-IoT and URLLC modes
- Two configurations of the single common architecture scalable from high-end eMBB mobile and fixed devices and connected vehicles to RedCap in IoT , medical devices and smart watches
- Supported by System-C Virtual Platform Simulator and FPGA-based hardware emulation
Block Diagram
Ceva PentaG2 block diagram
Benefits
- A complete, highly flexible implementation platform for 5G and legacy 4G modems, Ceva-PentaG2 can slash development time and risk for SoCs across a huge range of end applications requiring cellular connectivity, from high performance to ultra-low-energy.
- Proven hardware IP and software to accelerate all major processing chains mean not only significant reduction in design time, but also reducing entry barriers for design teams not intimate with 5G modems design.
- By selecting a platform configuration and simulating it in VPS, designers can tune an implementation to a specific power-performance-area-feature point across a wide design space.
- Across this entire space Ceva-PentaG2 provides a single architecture, vastly simplifying development and maintenance of cellular-enabled product lines.
Applications
- Consumer IoT
- Automotive
- Industrial
- Mobile
- PC
Specifications
Identity
Part Number
Ceva PentaG2
Vendor
Ceva, Inc.
Type
Silicon IP
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Provider
HQ:
USA
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