Date: 15/12/2010

PMC-Sierra licenses CEVA's Voice-Over-IP for use in its Fiber-to-the-Home SoCs

PMC-Sierra has licensed CEVA's CEVA-VoP voice-over-IP platform for use in PMC-Sierra's system-on-chip (SoC) semiconductor devices for Fiber-To-The-Home applications. CEVA-VoP is based on the CEVA-TeakLite-II DSP, designed to be deployed in integrated networking and VoP SoC chips.

The CEVA-VoP platform designed to handle multiple, simultaneous voice channels on a single core. The solution includes a fully integrated VoIP software suite, including speech compression and decompression, echo cancellation, telephony functions, and signaling/networking.

"We required a complete hardware plus software VoIP solution that can be efficiently integrated within our SoC architecture and provide the necessary performance, power and cost efficiencies required in the competitive EPON and GPON markets," said Ofer Bar-Or, PMC-Sierra's vice president and co-general manager, FTTH division. "CEVA's proven VoIP platform provides our EPON and GPON products with the required technology to enable multiple simultaneous voice channels and signal processing functions in our VoIP-enabled SoCs."

"We are pleased that PMC-Sierra has adopted our DSP-based platform to provide VoIP functionality," said Gideon Wertheizer, CEO of CEVA. "The flexibility of the CEVA solution is well suited to support PMC-Sierra's evolving needs as it continues to enhance its product lines with additional VoIP functionality."