SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 18, 2021 /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 it has released an Amazon-qualified
reference design that empowers OEMs and ODMs to evaluate and
develop their own smart hearable products quickly and easily. This
kit integrates the Alexa voice-initiated Close-Talk experience,
enabling a broad set of battery-powered applications to communicate
directly with Alexa for a multitude of use cases.
This is the first available, Close-Talk qualified smart hearable
reference design based on QuickLogic's EOS™ S3 ultra-low power Arm®
Cortex®-M4-based Voice Processor + eFPGA System-on-Chip. The
reference design is built on QuickLogic's Open Reconfigurable
Computing (QORC) initiative, and QuickLogic's QuickFeather 100%
open source development kit. The EOS S3 integrates Sensory's™
Low Power Sound Detection (LPSD) technology, with DSP Concepts'
TalkTo™ noise suppression and beamforming technology, and
Alexa Wake Word engine technology to
enable a superior user experience and long battery life.
In addition to the very low power, voice-initiated Alexa voice
recognition capability enabled by the EOS S3 platform, OEMs and
ODMs can optionally integrate multiple AI-based motion, sound and
other AI use cases based on SensiML's AI Software Platform, which
already has native support for the QuickFeather development
kit.
Following evaluation with this reference design, manufacturers
can take the next step in product development using the same
QuickFeather development kit, or design their own hardware.
The QuickFeather AVS Reference Design Features:
- Alexa Wake Word Engine (WWE) running in the EOS S3 voice
processor
- Hardware-optimized Low Power Sound Detection (LPSD) technology
from Sensory
- Support for one or two microphone use cases with DSP Concepts'
TalkTo noise suppression and beam forming technology
- Connectivity to Alexa Voice
Service
- Built on top of 100% open source hardware QuickFeather dev kit
and QORC open source software tools
"The age of the smart hearable has arrived, and our
always-listening, Alexa Close-Talk
reference design is the ideal platform for developing next
generation AI-enabled hearable products," said Brian Faith, CEO of QuickLogic. "OEMs and ODMs
can use this readily available design along with the QuickFeather
development kit as a sandbox for their own product development with
the comfort that we have already gone through the AVS certification
process on our reference design with Amazon. The fact that we
have built all of this on our QuickLogic Open Reconfigurable
Computing platform, which integrates with the SensiML AI Software
Platform, makes it that much easier for users to innovate in
familiar development environments, speeding time-to-market and
reducing risk."
Availability
The QuickLogic QuickFeather AVS reference design for Amazon is
available now and can be ordered from QuickLogic's online store. To
learn more, please visit: www.quicklogic.com/avs
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 and
SensiML are trademarks of QuickLogic. All other trademarks are the
property of their respective holders and should be treated as
such.
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