Software from CEVA for seamlessly offloading tasks from CPU to DSP

CEVA has introduced a new low-energy software framework for Android based systems, which efficiently reduces the power consumption required for complex multimedia processing using a heterogeneous CPU and DSP system architecture. Known as Android Multimedia Framework (AMF), the framework addresses the most intensive, real-time signal processing applications, including audio, voice, imaging and vision, and seamlessly offloads the related tasks from the CPU to the CEVA DSPs at the Android Operation System (OS) level. Previously, the DSP was detached from the Android OS, requiring system programmers to implement multimedia tasks and partitioning at the CPU level, resulting in inefficient use of the CPU to perform complex, power hungry DSP tasks. Eran Briman, vice president of marketing at CEVA, commented: "This comprehensive software framework bridging our application-specific DSPs to the Android OS is an important milestone for our customers utilizing CEVA's DSPs and multimedia platforms. AMF was developed in close collaboration with the CEVA ecosystem of software, system and silicon vendors, contributing their vast expertise to the design process. The benefits of enabling Android developers direct access to the processing capabilities of our DSPs are huge, delivering significant power savings for signal processing-intensive tasks and enabling the development of a whole new gen...