VeriSilicon Expands DSP Portfolio with Silicon-Proven ZSP5000 Vision Core Series for Edge Intelligence

Highly scalable architecture optimized for computer vision and image workloads with extendable instruction set

Shanghai, China -- June 26, 2025 -- VeriSilicon (688521.SH) today released the ZSP5000 Digital Signal Processing (DSP) series IPs, which are based on its fifth-generation silicon-proven DSP architecture. This product line adopts a highly scalable and energy-efficient design, and has been deeply optimized for compute-intensive workloads such as computer vision and embedded AI. Combined with the configurable nature of the architecture, this series of IP can provide excellent solutions with both energy and computing efficiency for various edge devices.

The ZSP5000 series IPs include ZSP5000, ZSP5000UL, ZSP5000L, and ZSP5000H, delivering scalable vector processing performance ranging from 32 to 256 8-bit Multiply-Accumulate (MAC) operations per cycle. For even higher performance, VeriSilicon’s multi-core ZSP5400H can combine multiple ZSP5000H cores in a multi-cluster architecture to further scale computing capability.

The ZSP5000 series features a rich and intuitive instruction set optimized for ease of programming and efficient performance tuning, while its dedicated instructions accelerate common imaging and signal processing tasks such as vector-scalar arithmetic, horizontal reductions, permutations, shifts, table lookups, clamping, and averaging. It integrates the ZTurbo coprocessor interface, allowing customers to easily add custom instructions and hardware accelerators within the same pipeline, and is compatible with the OpenCV Application Programming Interface (API), ensuring seamless integration with the mainstream computer vision frameworks. Additionally, the ZSP5000 series is equipped with a full-featured memory subsystem, a multi-channel 3D DMA engine, and a scalable multicore configuration, supporting flexible deployment for a broad spectrum of applications.

The ZSP5000 series IPs are backward compatible with VeriSilicon’s scalar ZSPNano series, efficiently handling mixed MCU and DSP workloads. VeriSilicon also offers comprehensive ZView development tools, including an Eclipse-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE), cycle-accurate simulator, optimizing compiler, debugger, and profiling tools, streamlining software development and system integration.

“With the growing adoption of OpenCV and the increasing demand for computer vision workloads alongside NPUs in edge intelligence computing, we are introducing the ZSP5000—our next-generation DSP IP series. It supports the industry-standard OpenCV API, enables streamlined interfacing with NPUs via our FLEXA interface, and integrates built-in audio processing capabilities for multi-modal applications,” said Weijin Dai, Chief Strategy Officer, Executive Vice President, and General Manager of the IP Division at VeriSilicon. “Energy efficiency is key at the edge, and the ZSP5000 series IPs feature an optimized memory access architecture to minimize processor power consumption. It also features ZTurbo, a custom instruction extension mechanism designed for targeted applications, which enables further power and performance optimization through seamless integration of hardware accelerators. Our leading customers are already leveraging these capabilities to achieve significant advancements in power and performance.”

About VeriSilicon

VeriSilicon Microelectronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (VeriSilicon, 688521.SH) is committed to providing customers with platform-based, all-around, one-stop custom silicon services and semiconductor IP licensing services leveraging its in-house semiconductor IP.

VeriSilicon possesses six categories of in-house processing IPs, namely Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) IP, Neural Network Processing Unit (NPU) IP, Video Processing Unit (VPU) IP, Digital Signal Processing (DSP) IP, Image Signal Processing (ISP) IP, and Display Processing IP, as well as more than 1,600 analog and mixed-signal IPs and RF IPs.

Leveraging its own IPs, VeriSilicon has developed a wealth of software and hardware custom chip design platforms targeting Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, covering always-on ultralight spatial computing devices such as smartwatches and AR/VR glasses, high-efficiency edge computing devices such as AI PCs, AI phones, smart cars, and robots, as well as high-performance cloud computing devices like data centers and servers.

In response to the trend of System-on-Chip (SoC) evolving towards System-in-Package (SiP) driven by the demand for large computing power, VeriSilicon put forward the concepts of "IP as a Chiplet”, "Chiplet as a Platform", and "Platform as an Ecosystem”. The company keeps advancing the R&D and industrialization of its Chiplet technologies and projects from the perspective of interface IP, Chiplet architecture, advanced packaging technology, and others for AI-Generated Content (AIGC) and autonomous driving solutions.

Under its unique “Silicon Platform as a Service” (SiPaaS) business model, VeriSilicon serves a broad range of market segments, including consumer electronics, automotive electronics, computer and peripheral, industry, data processing, Internet of Things (IoT), among others. Its main customers include fabless, IDM, system vendors (OEM/ODM), large internet companies, and cloud service providers.

Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Shanghai, China, VeriSilicon has 8 design and R&D centers, along with 11 sales and customer service offices worldwide. VeriSilicon currently has more than 2,000 employees.