CEVA BRINGS ULTRA-LOW POWER WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY TO ALIF SEMICONDUCTOR'S BALLETTO FAMILY OF MCUS

Ceva announced that Alif Semiconductor^®, a leading global supplier of secure, connected, power-efficient Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) enabled microcontrollers (MCUs) and fusion processors, has licensed and deployed the Ceva-Waves Bluetooth Low Energy and 802.15.4 IPs in its Balletto™ family of wireless microcontrollers.

The Balletto family is a complete Edge AI/ML microcontroller solution for connected IoT platforms with integrated Bluetooth Low Energy 5.3 and 802.15.4 wireless subsystem and a dedicated network co-processor, enabling connectivity and class-leading machine learning performance in a single chip. The Balletto family opens a new frontier for battery-powered EdgeML applications, delivering up to 50x boost in machine learning performance and inference efficiency versus traditional MCUs that lack neural co-processors. The Ceva-Waves Bluetooth Low Energy IP provides Balletto MCUs with robust connectivity at ultra-low power consumption, and supports Bluetooth LE Audio and Auracast broadcast audio, for customers who wish to leverage Balletto to create highly differentiated wireless audio products. The Balletto family also relies on Ceva-Waves 802.15.4 IP for Thread, Zigbee and Matter support in smart home applications.

"Our Balletto family of connected, intelligent MCUs are tailored to meet the growing demand for AI/ML workloads in battery-powered devices," said Mark Rootz, VP Marketing at Alif Semiconductor. "Ceva's Bluetooth Low Energy and 802.15.4 IPs provide us with a highly-proven and robust connectivity solution for our chip design, allowing us to focus our R&D resources on differentiating our MCU to deliver outstanding performance for the most demanding wireless audio and smart home AI/ML use cases."