Modern Audio DSP | Ceva-BX1™

A modern audio DSP, designed for battery operated, high-performance, audio and voice applications

Ceva-BX1 is an ultra-low-power Audio DSP, designed for:

Bluetooth earbuds and headsets using audio over BLE/BTDM
Voice control IoT with always-on speech recognition
Object based audio rendering and 3D Audio processing
Sound sensing in mobile, headsets and wearables
Audio codecs and high quality Audio post processing

Ceva-BX1 inherent low power design and compact code size make it ideal for a broad range of advanced audio/voice applications, requiring signal processing and real-time control workloads.

Ceva-BX1 audio/voice DSP is targeted for CE devices with power constraints in mind. TWS earbuds, Smart Home, IoT, Mobile and Wearables are among the devices to benefit from the Ceva-BX1 performance.

Using dual 32X32-bit MACs and quad 16X16-bit MACs, the Ceva-BX1 serves low to mid-range DSP workloads, such as multi-microphone noise reduction, light AI processing and always-on sensor fusion, with up to 8 GMACs per second. The Ceva-BX1 is using an 11-stage pipeline and 4-way VLIW micro-architecture, it offers parallel processing with a scalar compute engine, load/store and program control that reaches a speed of 2 GHz at a TSMC 7nm process node.

The Ceva-BX1 Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) incorporates support for Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD), as well as half, single and double precision floating point units for high accuracy sensor fusion and positioning algorithms.
Security is addressed using dedicated trusted execution modes to comply with the stringent safety standards.

The Ceva-BX1 audio DSP is accompanied by a comprehensive software development tool chain, including:

Advanced LLVM compiler
Eclipse based debugger
DSP and neural network compute libraries
Neural network frameworks support
Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS)

Benefits

Ceva-BX1 combines low power audio DSP kernels execution with real-time control capabilities and compact code size

Easily applied to a wide range of wearables and always on IoT applications

Compact and efficient single core solution

Highly scalable application-specific instruction set

Main Features

Quad 16x16 MACs
Dual 32x32 MACs
4-way VLIW
8/16/32/64-bit data types
16x8 and 8x8 Neural Network support
Half, single and double precision IEEE floating point unit
Innovative Branch Target Buffer minimizing branch overhead
Hardware loop buffer for reduced power consumption of code loops
High performance controller
- 4.41 CoreMark/MHz
- Dynamic branch prediction
- Full RTOS support
- Secured execution modes
- Compact code size
Advance system control
- Automatic Queue and Buffer management mechanisms to integrate co-processors and create a cluster of Ceva-BX cores
- Dedicated HW accelerator ports