CEVA has unveiled processor IP that aims to handle a plethora of IoT wireless standards, in a package that should cut costs by combining the DSP (digital signal processor) with the CPU. CEVA claims the design eliminates the need for a separate CPU core to handle the higher level stacks. The chip design is called the CEVA-X1, and its inventor claims that it provides a unified platform for low-throughput cellular IoT standards – including LTE Cat-M1, LTE NB-IoT, upcoming 5G specs, LoRa, Sigfox, and shorter range personal area networks like Bluetooth, WiFi, ZigBee and Thread. It also supports GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and Beidou for GNSS apps. Described as a multimode processing hub, the CEVA-X1 is the IP licensor’s latest riff…