Sensing, Processing and Connecting: IoT Fundamentals

By SemiWiki

October 27, 2014

Internet of Things, or Internet of Everything, is certainly the buzzword of the year. Does IoT describe one product family? Not really as the acronym describes a family of concepts, each of these concepts could effectively be turned into a family of products, if this concept reach the market, or fulfill a market need. Nevertheless we could unify IoT definition, saying that IoT fundamentals at hardware level are: sensing, processing and connecting. These three actions will serve as an IoT product foundation, the finished product also including software encapsulation and security. An IP vendor is not selling a finished system, but some of the hardware “lego” pieces that you need to integrate to build the system. CEVA is typically one of these IP vendors you may want to talk with when defining an IoT product, as the company propose two of these fundamental pieces: Processing (thanks to the DSP IP core family) and Connecting (thanks to Riviera Waves acquisition). If you consider that CEVA has developed their DSP IP port-folio by supporting the mobile phone semiconductor industry, you realize that the company should be well positioned to address the various needs of IoT systems by offering low power solution. Low power is the mobile industry DNA, it’s also CEVA DNA because CEVA's IP port-folio development is tightly coupled with battery powered, mobile systems.

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