CEVA, Inc., the leading licensor of wireless connectivity and smart sensing technologies and co-creation solutions, announced that Beijing ESWIN Technology Group Co. Ltd (“ESWIN”) a semiconductor products and services supplier, has licensed and deployed the RivieraWaves Wi-Fi 6 1×1 IP platform in its ECR6600 smart connectivity IC targeting smart homes, smart transportation, industrial IoT and more. Global technology intelligence firm ABI Research forecasts that shipments of Wi-Fi 6 enabled chips will grow at a CAGR of 21% from 2022 to 2027 to surpass 3.8 billion units annually by 2027.
“Leveraging CEVA’s Wi-Fi IP for the development of our ECR6600 product allowed us to rapidly develop a fully-featured, robust connectivity IC and target the tremendous opportunity for Wi-Fi 6 chipsets in the consumer and IoT markets,” said Haolu Xie, General Manager of the Smart Connectivity Business Unit at ESWIN. “The CEVA team provided excellent engineering support and expertise throughout the development cycle and we look forward to continuing to work closely together.”
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“We congratulate ESWIN on their success in introducing their ECR6600 connectivity IC to the market,” said Tal Shalev, Vice President and General Manager of the Wireless IoT Business Unit at CEVA. “Wi-Fi 6 is a hot commodity right now as developers look to create low power Wi-Fi 6 IoT applications. ESWIN offers a compelling solution for this market and we look forward to sharing in their success.”
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CEVA’s RivieraWaves Wi-Fi 6 IP platforms provide comprehensive solutions for the integration of Wi-Fi connectivity into any IC or SoC design. incorporates PHY modem functions and MAC functions, including Lower MAC (LMAC) and Full MAC software protocol stacks. The IP is provided with an integration-ready processor and operating system-agnostic platform, simplifying deployment. A flexible radio interface allows the platforms to be deployed with various partners’ Wi-Fi RF IP, enabling optimal selection of foundry and process node. An optimized Wi-Fi & Bluetooth coexistence interface with a Packet Traffic Arbiter is also available for smooth simultaneous operation for combo chips. With more than 3 billion CEVA-powered Bluetooth and Wi-Fi devices shipped to date and dozens of licensees, the RivieraWaves Bluetooth and Wi-Fi IPs are widely deployed in consumer, smart home, industrial and IoT devices with many of the world’s leading semiconductors companies and OEMs.
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