Hardware CEVA and Rockchip have extended their existing partnerships to add CEVA’s machine vision DSPs to Rockship’s SoCs, giving Rockchip access to CEVA’s Deep Neural Network (CDNN2) software framework. Software myDevices has been certified Sigfox-compliant, bringing its Cayenne application development platform to potential new LPWAN customers looking for a project builder. Chronicled has open-sourced its namesake identity management platform, which can be used to register IoT encrypted chips using the Ethereum blockchain. Google has pushed v1.0 of its gRPC protocol, a rival to JSON for server-to-server communications that it hopes can gain adoption from current Java users. Networks and Protocols FreeWave has announced a partnership with Solis Energy, to provide connectivity to Solis’ range of remote solar and battery backup…