Ceva Expands Embedded AI NPU Ecosystem with New Partnerships That Accelerate Time-to-Market for Smart Edge Devices
Ceva has announced new partnerships to enhance its embedded AI ecosystem for the Ceva-NeuPro-Nano NPU. The company is collaborating with Cyberon and AIZIP to provide pre-optimized neural networks for keyword spotting, face recognition, and speaker identification in smart edge devices.
The expanded partnership with Edge Impulse now includes full integration of Edge Impulse Studio and support for NVIDIA TAO toolkit with Ceva-NeuPro Studio for both NPN32 and NPN64 NPUs. AIZIP's contribution focuses on Face Detection models, while Cyberon brings its DSpotter keyword spotting technology optimized for power-efficient performance.
The Ceva-NeuPro-Nano NPUs are currently available for licensing, along with Cyberon and AIZIP's optimized neural networks. The Edge Impulse Platform integration will be available in the coming months.
Ceva ha annunciato nuove partnership per migliorare il suo ecosistema di intelligenza artificiale integrata per il Ceva-NeuPro-Nano NPU. L'azienda sta collaborando con Cyberon e AIZIP per fornire reti neurali pre-ottimizzate per il riconoscimento di parole chiave, il riconoscimento facciale e l'identificazione dell'oratore nei dispositivi edge intelligenti.
La partnership ampliata con Edge Impulse ora include l'integrazione completa di Edge Impulse Studio e il supporto per il NVIDIA TAO toolkit con Ceva-NeuPro Studio sia per i NPU NPN32 che NPN64. Il contributo di AIZIP si concentra sui modelli di Rilevamento Facciale, mentre Cyberon porta la sua tecnologia DSpotter per il riconoscimento delle parole chiave ottimizzata per un'efficienza energetica superiore.
I Ceva-NeuPro-Nano NPU sono attualmente disponibili per la licenza, insieme alle reti neurali ottimizzate di Cyberon e AIZIP. L'integrazione della piattaforma Edge Impulse sarà disponibile nei prossimi mesi.
Ceva ha anunciado nuevas asociaciones para mejorar su ecosistema de inteligencia artificial integrada para el Ceva-NeuPro-Nano NPU. La compañía está colaborando con Cyberon y AIZIP para proporcionar redes neuronales preoptimizadas para la detección de palabras clave, reconocimiento facial e identificación de hablantes en dispositivos inteligentes de borde.
La asociación ampliada con Edge Impulse ahora incluye la integración completa de Edge Impulse Studio y soporte para el NVIDIA TAO toolkit con Ceva-NeuPro Studio para ambos NPU NPN32 y NPN64. La contribución de AIZIP se centra en modelos de Detección Facial, mientras que Cyberon aporta su tecnología DSpotter de reconocimiento de palabras clave optimizada para un rendimiento eficiente en energía.
Los Ceva-NeuPro-Nano NPU están actualmente disponibles para licenciamiento, junto con las redes neuronales optimizadas de Cyberon y AIZIP. La integración de la plataforma Edge Impulse estará disponible en los próximos meses.
Ceva는 Ceva-NeuPro-Nano NPU를 위한 임베디드 AI 생태계를 강화하기 위해 새로운 파트너십을 발표했습니다. 이 회사는 스마트 엣지 장치에서 키워드 스포팅, 얼굴 인식 및 화자 식별을 위한 미리 최적화된 신경망을 제공하기 위해 Cyberon 및 AIZIP와 협력하고 있습니다.
Edge Impulse와의 확대된 파트너십은 이제 Edge Impulse Studio의 전체 통합 및 Ceva-NeuPro Studio와 함께 NVIDIA TAO toolkit에 대한 지원을 포함합니다. AIZIP의 기여는 얼굴 감지 모델에 중점을 두며, Cyberon은 전력 효율적인 성능에 최적화된 DSpotter 키워드 스포팅 기술을 제공합니다.
Ceva-NeuPro-Nano NPU는 현재 라이센스 가능하며, Cyberon과 AIZIP의 최적화된 신경망도 함께 제공됩니다. Edge Impulse 플랫폼 통합은 향후 몇 달 안에 제공될 예정입니다.
Ceva a annoncé de nouveaux partenariats pour améliorer son écosystème d'IA intégrée pour le Ceva-NeuPro-Nano NPU. L'entreprise collabore avec Cyberon et AIZIP pour fournir des réseaux neuronaux préoptimisés pour la détection de mots-clés, la reconnaissance faciale et l'identification des locuteurs dans des dispositifs intelligents de périphérie.
Le partenariat élargi avec Edge Impulse inclut désormais l'intégration complète de Edge Impulse Studio et le support du NVIDIA TAO toolkit avec Ceva-NeuPro Studio pour les NPU NPN32 et NPN64. La contribution d'AIZIP se concentre sur les modèles de Détection Faciale, tandis que Cyberon apporte sa technologie DSpotter de détection de mots-clés optimisée pour des performances écoénergétiques.
Les Ceva-NeuPro-Nano NPU sont actuellement disponibles à la licence, avec les réseaux neuronaux optimisés de Cyberon et AIZIP. L'intégration de la plateforme Edge Impulse sera disponible dans les mois à venir.
Ceva hat neue Partnerschaften angekündigt, um sein eingebettetes KI-Ökosystem für den Ceva-NeuPro-Nano NPU zu verbessern. Das Unternehmen arbeitet mit Cyberon und AIZIP zusammen, um voroptimierte neuronale Netzwerke für die Schlüsselworterkennung, Gesichtserkennung und Sprecheridentifikation in intelligenten Edge-Geräten bereitzustellen.
Die erweiterte Partnerschaft mit Edge Impulse umfasst nun die vollständige Integration von Edge Impulse Studio und Unterstützung für das NVIDIA TAO toolkit mit Ceva-NeuPro Studio für sowohl NPN32 als auch NPN64 NPU. AIZIPs Beitrag konzentriert sich auf Gesichtserkennungsmodelle, während Cyberon seine DSpotter-Technologie zur Schlüsselworterkennung einbringt, die auf energieeffiziente Leistung optimiert ist.
Die Ceva-NeuPro-Nano NPUs sind derzeit zur Lizenzierung verfügbar, zusammen mit den optimierten neuronalen Netzwerken von Cyberon und AIZIP. Die Integration der Edge Impulse-Plattform wird in den kommenden Monaten verfügbar sein.
- New partnerships with Cyberon and AIZIP expand product offerings with pre-optimized AI models
- Enhanced collaboration with Edge Impulse includes NVIDIA TAO toolkit support
- Immediate availability of Ceva-NeuPro-Nano NPUs and partner neural networks for licensing
- Edge Impulse Platform integration not immediately available, scheduled for coming months
Insights
The partnership expansion represents a strategic move in the embedded AI market. Pre-optimized AI models for keyword spotting, face recognition and speaker identification significantly reduce development cycles and implementation costs for OEMs. The integration of NVIDIA's TAO Toolkit is particularly noteworthy - it opens access to enterprise-grade AI models that can be efficiently deployed on edge devices using Ceva's NPUs.
The technical architecture combines three critical components: Cyberon's speech recognition expertise, AIZIP's sensor fusion capabilities and Edge Impulse's development platform. This creates a comprehensive ecosystem that addresses major bottlenecks in edge AI deployment:
- Power efficiency for always-on applications
- Reduced memory footprint through optimized models
- Simplified development workflow with pre-trained models
Market differentiation comes from the ability to deploy complex AI workloads on resource-constrained devices while maintaining high accuracy. This positions Ceva competitively in the growing edge AI processor market, particularly for applications requiring multiple AI models running simultaneously.
The strategic value of these partnerships extends beyond technical capabilities. The edge AI processor market is projected to reach
The collaboration with NVIDIA through TAO toolkit integration is particularly significant for market penetration. It provides Ceva access to NVIDIA's extensive developer community and enterprise customers, potentially accelerating adoption in commercial applications. The pre-optimized models from Cyberon and AIZIP address the growing demand for ready-to-deploy AI solutions, reducing barriers to entry for manufacturers looking to add AI capabilities to their products.
- Cyberon and AIZIP collaborate with Ceva to offer pre-optimized AI models for Ceva-NeuPro-Nano Embedded AI NPUs including keyword spotting, face recognition and speaker identification
- Expanded collaboration with Edge Impulse includes support for NVIDIA's TAO Toolkit and availability of Edge Impulse Studio integration with Ceva-NeuPro-Nano
Chad Lucien, vice president and general manager of the sensor and audio business unit at Ceva, remarked: "We welcome Cyberon and AIZIP to our embedded AI ecosystem, advancing the value proposition of our Ceva-NeuPro-Nano NPU by providing customers with ready-to-use neural network models for high-demand, real-world use cases that enhance the user experience. Our continued collaboration with Edge Impulse will further accelerate development of embedded AI applications for Ceva-NeuPro-Nano leveraging Edge Impulse Studio's low/no-code environment to deploy end-to-end AI applications. Furthermore, our enablement of the NVIDIA TAO toolkit on Ceva-NeuPro-Nano marks a major milestone, allowing AI developers to access, retrain and deploy TAO models through the Edge Impulse Platform on Ceva-NeuPro-Nano NPU's. These partnerships underscore our commitment to simplifying AI adoption at the edge, offering power-efficient, high-performance solutions that expand and accelerate our customers' ability to quickly and easily deliver smart edge applications."
AIZIP: Driving Sensor Fusion Innovations in TinyML
AIZIP specializes in production quality AI models ranging from vision, audio, and time-series to language models. These models can be combined to create compact AI modules for sensor fusion applications. The collaboration with Ceva centers on AIZIP's Face Detection model on the Ceva-NeuPro-Nano NPU, paving the way for future integration of their voice and sensor fusion technologies. This partnership highlights the scalability and versatility of the Ceva-NeuPro-Nano NPUs in addressing a broad spectrum of embedded AI use cases.
Yuan Lu, Cofounder and President of AIZIP, commented: "Our goal is to simplify edge AI implementation for next-generation smart edge devices by combining our sensor fusion applications with Ceva's latest efficient NPU architecture. Our work will reduce AI workloads for cost-effective embedded systems."
Cyberon: Enabling High-Accuracy Speech Recognition for Embedded AI
Cyberon Corporation, headquartered in
Alex Liou, VP of Cyberon, stated: "Our DSpotter solution brings best-in-class keyword spotting to edge AI devices, enabling seamless, always-on user experiences. Partnering with Ceva allows us to deliver this technology on their Ceva-NeuPro-Nano NPU, delivering superior performance and power efficiency for hands-free speech-based applications."
Edge Impulse:
Extending the previously announced collaboration, Ceva and Edge Impulse are now deploying NVIDIA's pre-trained TAO models on Ceva-NeuPro-Nano using the NVIDIA TAO Toolkit and Edge Impulse Studio which enables developers to retrain with different data sets leveraging the TAO framework. The integration with Edge Impulse Platform ensures developers get accurate cycle count emulation for the full end-to-end AI application on Ceva-NeuPro-Nano, before silicon is available. Edge Impulse's platform optimizes AI performance for the Ceva-NeuPro-Nano NPUs with little to no code. Cutting-edge AI/ML models, including popular digital signal processing (DSP) blocks and a direct integration with NVIDIA's Tao toolkit, come standard on Edge Impulse's platform for faster development cycles and deployment on Ceva-NeuPro-Nano.
Zach Shelby, CEO of Edge Impulse, stated: "We are making great strides in translating AI/ML models for effective deployment on edge devices, ensuring that powerful NPUs like the Ceva-NeuPro-Nano can leverage the full scope of their capabilities," said Zach Shelby, co-founder and CEO at Edge Impulse. "Bringing NVIDIA TAO's computer vision models to the Ceva portfolio will unlock numerous novel use cases for AIoT products that require visual data generation and analysis across industries."
Availability
Ceva-NeuPro-Nano NPUs are available for licensing today. Cyberon and AIZIP's neural networks optimized for Ceva-NeuPro-Nano are also available today for licensing. Edge Impulse Platform will be available for use with Ceva-NeuPro-Nano in the coming months. For more information, visit: https://www.ceva-ip.com/product/ceva-neupro-nano/
About Ceva, Inc.
At Ceva, we are passionate about bringing new levels of innovation to the smart edge. Our wireless communications, sensing and Edge AI technologies are at the heart of some of today's most advanced smart edge products. From wireless connectivity IPs (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, UWB and 5G platform IP), to scalable Edge AI NPU IPs and sensor fusion solutions, we have the broadest portfolio of IP to connect, sense and infer data more reliably and efficiently. We deliver differentiated solutions that combine outstanding performance at ultra-low power within a very small silicon footprint. Our goal is simple – to deliver the silicon and software IP to enable a smarter, safer, and more interconnected world. This philosophy is in practice today, with Ceva powering more than 18 billion of the world's most innovative smart edge products from AI-infused smartwatches, IoT devices and wearables to autonomous vehicles and 5G mobile networks.
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