GCT Semiconductor Licenses CEVA Bluetooth Low Energy IP for its LTE IoT SoC

CEVA announces that GCT Semiconductor Inc (GCT) a designer and supplier of advanced 4G mobile semiconductor solutions, has licensed and deployed CEVA’s RivieraWaves Bluetooth low energy (BLE) IP in its new GDM7243i LTE SoC solution for the Internet of Things (IoT).

GDM7243i combines BLE with GCT’s advanced LTE-M and NB-IoT cellular technologies in a highly integrated single chip solution.

It is targeted at a wide range of next generation IoT devices including tracking, wearables, security, agriculture, healthcare, industrial, and consumer applications.

John Schlaefer, CEO of GCT, stated: “The rapidly expanding IoT market is demanding next generation, highly integrated chip solutions to unleash its full potential.

“We set ultra-low power connectivity as a key objective for GDM7243i and CEVA’s RivieraWaves Bluetooth IP, with its minimal processor loading architecture, was a great fit for our solution.”

CEVA’s RivieraWaves Bluetooth IP platforms provide comprehensive solutions for both Bluetooth LE and Bluetooth dual mode connectivity.

Each platform consists of a hardware baseband controller, plus a feature-rich software protocol stack.

A flexible radio interface allows the platforms to be deployed with either RivieraWaves RF or various partners’ RF IP, enabling optimal selection of foundry and process node.

All Bluetooth 5 features are supported, including LE 2Mbps data rate, Long Range and LE Advertising Extension. Widely adopted with different processor subsystems, CEVA also offers RISC-V based fully integrated platforms.

With more than 1.5 billion devices shipped to date and dozens of licensees, the RivieraWaves Bluetooth IP is widely deployed in consumer and IoT devices with many of the world’s leading semiconductors companies and OEMs, including smartphones, tablets, wireless speakers, wireless headsets and earbuds, hearing aids and other wearables.