CEVA has bought Hillcrest Labs, the sensor processing specialist, from InterDigital.

Hillcrest Labs specilises in the fusion of data from multiple sensors to enable intelligent systems.

Hillcrest Labs’  MotionEngine software supports a broad range of merchant sensor chips and is licensed to OEMs and semiconductor companies that can run the software on CEVA DSPs or a variety of RISC CPUs, including Arm Cortex-M and A series and RISC-V based cores.

The MotionEngine software expands and complements CEVA’s smart sensing technology, which includes computer vision and AI processing for cameras and sound processing for microphones.

As a result, CEVA DSP licensees now benefit from CEVA’s capabilities as a complete, one-stop-shop for processing all classes and types of sensors.

Furthermore, the Hillcrest Labs software technology broadens CEVA’s software licensing engagements directly with OEMs and ODMs to enable the addition  of IMU-based software applications to their merchant SoCs, which adopt a royalty payment scheme based on devices rather than chips.