The latest "Ericsson Mobility Report" predicts a significant increase in cellular IoT, which will nearly double by 2023 to reach approximately 3.5 billion connections. The report considers China's large-scale deployment and the industry's eNB-IoT and Cat The increased interest in the M1-Cellular IoT standard will serve as a catalyst for achieving a 30% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2017 and 2023.
Based on the success of CEVA-Dragonfly NB1, CEVA-Dragonfly NB2 is the world’s first eNB-IoT license solution complying with the Release 14 standard, and has been widely licensed for a range of applications and emerging terminal markets, including smart cities. , Transportation and Logistics, and Consumer Electronics. CEVA-Dragonfly NB2 is a CEVA-X1 DSP/control processor with Enhanced Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) that provides a unified processor environment to cope with the physical layer and Protocol stack workload. The solution also includes a highly integrated global common RF transceiver, power amplifier (PA), and all related hardware and software modules needed to develop a complete eNB-IoT product, minimizing material for the user's design. List cost (BOM).
In addition to the performance improvements provided by version 14 (including higher data rates and lower latency), CEVA-Dragonfly NB2 also features a series of enhancements to ensure that its implemented NB-IoT applications have superior performance over previous generation products. Higher performance, more features and higher security. The new power management solution with intelligent sleep mechanism ensures ultra-low-sleep power consumption of several microamps, further extending the reach for all NB-IoT devices Critical battery life. The enhanced RF design has been validated with 55 nm and 40 nm process chip products, further lowering the barrier to entry for customers just entering the cellular emerging market. CEVA-Dragonfly NB2 also includes Cat 14 for version 14. - Fully-optimized physical layer and protocol stack firmware for NB2 application design. It also adds on-chip embedded flash memory and controllers to implement a full NB-IoT design on a single chip, further reducing BOM cost and power consumption.
For NB-IoT product developers needing GNSS capabilities, the CEVA-Dragonfly NB2 includes a power-optimized new GNSS hardware package, as well as a GNSS RF receiver and a multi-satellite digital front end. Compared to the CEVA-Dragonfly NB1, the GNSS hardware package is available Increase the speed of acquisition and tracking tasks by a factor of 8 to achieve a wide range of popular NB-IoT applications, including personnel, livestock and asset tracking, and geofencing.
The CEVA-Dragonfly NB2 also supports applications that use always-on monitoring for voice triggering, voice commands and sound sensing. The flexibility of the CEVA-X1 IoT processor allows software to implement these sensing features. For example, the CEVA ClearVoxTM Voice Front End package It can be used as a pickup in emergency calls and voice emergency button use cases to ensure that the received speech is clear and easy to understand. In terms of security, CEVA-Dragonfly NB2 integrates a completely redesigned security platform, including the intelligence to connect USIM or eSIM Interface. CEVA also provides other complementary technologies for large-scale IoT, such as Bluetooth 5 dual-mode, Bluetooth low energy, and Wi-Fi 802.11n/ac/ax, which enables customers to design products with short-range connectivity.
Michael Boukaya, CEVA vice president and general manager of the wireless business unit, said: 'NB-IoT's global commercial deployment is overwhelming, and we are proud to be able to lead long-range large-scale IoT technology innovation. We take the great success of the first-generation solution as Based on building the CEVA-Dragonfly NB2 solution and providing customers with a unique silicon-certified eNB-IoT Release 14 solution, achieving unprecedented system integrity, performance and power efficiency. In addition, power-optimized GNSS and voice and sensing functions The choice has greatly broadened the scope of application of this licensable solution. At present, no other IP company in the world can match this high-integrity eNB-IoT solution. We are very happy to work closely with customers and create for the unlimited IoT field. Waves of new applications and equipment waves.