SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- QuickLogic
Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK), a developer of ultra-low power
multi-core voice-enabled SoCs, embedded FPGA IP, and endpoint AI
solutions, today announced its collaboration with Airoha, a
Bluetooth audio SoC developer and division of MediaTek in
Taiwan, to develop a reference
design based on Airoha's new AB1536 Bluetooth Audio SoC and
QuickLogic's EOS™ S3 Voice and Sensor Processing Platform. The
reference design enables third-party developers to quickly and
easily implement True Wireless (TWS) Bluetooth® 5.0 earbuds and
headsets using the complete hardware, software and development
board solutions provided by the combined companies.
The AB1536 from Airoha is an advanced single-chip SoC that
integrates Bluetooth 5.0 baseband and radio for intensive audio
applications. It supports wideband speech (HFP1.7) and includes
AAC and SBC decoder and support for two microphones for better
noise reduction and echo cancellation performance. It also
includes embedded serial flash memory to support third-party
software porting and upgrading. Its integrated MCU and DSP
capabilities enable high quality voice and music applications for
earbuds and headsets.
Adding always-on voice recognition capability via the EOS S3
enables hands-free operation, thus dramatically increasing product
usability and improving the quality of the customer experience. The
ultra-low power consumption of the QuickLogic platform is a
critical factor, as wireless earbuds and headsets have small
batteries, and customers desire long usage times between
charging.
"This is an ideal use case for our EOS S3 platform, and we are
excited to be working with Airoha to bring ultra-low power and
hands-free voice recognition to developers of TWS earbud and
headset applications," said Scott
Haylock, product marketing manager at QuickLogic. "These
features, combined with the comprehensive single-chip SoC solution
from Airoha, will significantly facilitate the design process of
next generation TWS Bluetooth 5.0 consumer electronics
applications."
About EOS S3 Sensor Processing Platform
The EOS S3
Voice and Sensor Processing Platform is an ultra-low power SoC that
combines always-on/always-listening voice processing with fast,
efficient and sophisticated sensor processing capabilities. It
includes a proprietary, patent-pending uDSP-like Flexible Fusion
Engine (FFE) that handles the bulk of the sensor algorithm
processing, which minimizes the processing load for the floating
point MCU. The multi-core design of EOS S3 enables it to be used as
a host processor as well as a companion co-processor. Power
consumption in the always-listening mode is minimized by its
hardware integrated Low Power Sound Detector (LPSD). System-level
power consumption is further optimized by the EOS S3's dynamic
power management technology.
Availability
The Airoha AB1536 Bluetooth TWS Earbud
and Headset Reference Design, featuring the QuickLogic EOS S3 Voice
and Sensor Processing Platform, is available now. For more
information, please visit http://www.airoha.com.tw/index.aspx. The
QuickLogic EOS S3 Voice and Sensor Processing Platform is also
independently available. For more information, please visit
https://www.quicklogic.com/products/eos-s3.
About Airoha
Airoha Technology, founded in 2001, is a
leading Taiwan-based Fabless IC
design company that specializes in the design and sale of highly
integrated wireless communication devices. It has an extensive IP
portfolio and talent, providing its customers with a wide range of
high performance, cost efficient RF and mixed-signal IC components
and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) SoC solutions. Its current and
future focus is in BLE single and Bluetooth wireless audio system
solutions. Becoming a member of MediaTek Group in 2017 has allowed
it to further provide low-power micro-processor platforms with a
wide range of wireless communication technologies, with the aim to
connect hundreds of millions of IoT smart devices.
About QuickLogic
QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ:
QUIK) is a fabless semiconductor company that develops low power,
multi-core semiconductor platforms and Intellectual Property (IP)
for Artificial Intelligence (AI), voice and sensor processing. The
solutions include embedded FPGA IP (eFPGA) for hardware
acceleration and pre-processing, and heterogeneous multi-core SoCs
that integrate eFPGA with other processors and peripherals. The
Analytics Toolkit from our recently acquired wholly owned
subsidiary, SensiML Corporation, completes the end-to-end solution
with accurate sensor algorithms using AI technology. The full range
of platforms, software tools and eFPGA IP enables the practical and
efficient adoption of AI, voice and sensor processing across
mobile, wearable, hearable, consumer, industrial, edge and endpoint
IoT. For more information, visit www.quicklogic.com and
https://www.quicklogic.com/blog/.
QuickLogic and logo are registered trademarks and EOS is a
trademark of QuickLogic. All other trademarks are the property of
their respective holders and should be treated as such.
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