Ceva DSP Cores Shipping to China

Ceva and Spreadtrum Communications have announced that Spreadtrum has begun shipping to Chinese customers it's GSM/GPRS modules and baseband chips for 2G/2.5G handsets powered by Ceva-TeakLite DSP Core. In addition, the two companies announced today that they have extended their relationship with Spreadtrum's licensing the higher performance Ceva-Teak DSP Core to power chips targeting China's next generation 3G cellular standards. Spreadtrum has licensed Ceva's Dual MAC Ceva-Teak DSP Core for wireless communications for both GSM/GPRS/Multimedia handsets as well as solutions migrating to the 3G TD-SCDMA and W-CDMA standards.

"Ceva-TeakLite DSP Cores are widely adopted in the GSM/GPRS market where cost and energy efficiency are critical differentiators," said David Chen, Spreadtrum Communications CTO. "The success of our GSM/GPRS chip has led us to expand our co-operation with Ceva, and the deployment of Ceva's higher performance Ceva-Teak DSP Core to power our next generation products."

Spreadtrum has commenced shipping to their customers the GSM/GPRS Digital Base Band chip, the SC6600, which is powered by Ceva-TeakLite DSP. The SC6600 is a highly integrated GSM/GPRS single baseband mixed-signal chip containing all digital and analog functionality for a GSM/GPRS wireless phone. The SC6600 provides both voice and data functions, and can be used in GSM/GPRS tri-band cell phones, data modems and other mobile terminal devices. Reference designs for a complete GSM/GPRS handset terminal are available."

Posted to the site on 16th December 2003