Ceva and Edge Impulse Unveil Enhanced Computer Vision Model for the Ceva-NeuPro™-Nano NPU IP Supported by NVIDIA’s TAO Toolkit

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Ceva, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA), the leading licensor of silicon and software IP that enables Smart Edge devices to connect, sense and infer data more reliably and efficiently, and Edge Impulse, the leading platform for building, deploying, and scaling edge machine learning models, announced today the achievement of breakthrough computer vision capabilities for embedded ML applications with NVIDIA Tao.

This includes full integration of Edge Impulse Studio and support for NVIDIA TAO toolkit with Ceva-NeuPro Studio for both the NPN32 and NPN64 NPUs.

Edge Impulse’s platform optimizes AI performance for the 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 NeuPro-Nano. Since the NeuPro-Nano’s self-sufficient architecture uniquely supports AI inference, feature extraction and the DSP workloads commonly used in audio, voice and vision applications, the integration with Edge Impulse Platform ensures developers get accurate cycle count emulation for the full end-to-end AI application.

“Our continued collaboration with Edge Impulse will further accelerate development of embedded AI applications for 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 NeuPro-Nano marks a major milestone, allowing AI developers to access, retrain and deploy TAO models through the Edge Impulse Platform on NeuPro-Nano NPU’s,” said Chad Lucien, Vice President and general manager of the sensor and audio business unit at Ceva. “This collaboration emphasizes our commitment to simplify AI adoption at the edge, offering ease of use to our customers and partners.”

"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. For more information, visit: https://www.ceva-ip.com/product/ceva-neupro-nano/ To learn more about the Edge Impulse development and deployment platform for AI at the edge, please visit edgeimpulse.com.

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.

Our headquarters are in Rockville, Maryland with a global customer base supported by operations worldwide. Our employees are among the leading experts in their areas of specialty, consistently solving the most complex design challenges, enabling our customers to bring innovative smart edge products to market.

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About Edge Impulse

Edge Impulse streamlines the creation of AI and machine learning models for edge hardware, allowing devices to make decisions and offer insight where data is gathered. Edge Impulse’s technology empowers developers to bring more AI products to market, and helps enterprise teams rapidly develop production-ready solutions in weeks instead of years. Powerful automations make it easier to build valuable datasets and develop advanced AI for edge devices from MCUs to CPUs to GPUs. Used by health and wearable organizations like Hyfe and Ultrahuman, industrial organizations like Lexmark, HP, and Halma as well as top silicon vendors and over 160,000 developers, Edge Impulse has become the trusted ML platform for enterprises and developers alike. To learn more, visit edgeimpulse.com.

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