In addition, the new Synaptics AudioSmart AS33970 SoC offers best-in-class power consumption, enabling a 35-55 percent improvement in battery life compared to currently shipping wireless headsets, as well as a significant reduction in size, design complexity, and cost, driven by its integrated architecture.
The AS33970 SoC reduces the chip count compared to other headset solutions from 5 to 3 while also lowering the number of microphones needed, significantly cutting system costs. Together with ultra-low power consumption, this reduction in chip count and passive components leads to a lighter and smaller design resulting in reduced user fatigue.
In addition, Synaptics revealed that the AS33970 AudioSmart SoC platform is the first and only open-market solution that meets the Microsoft Teams Open Office Premium specification without a boom mic, enabling premium voice performance applications, while optimizing comfort and usability in a sleeker form factor.
Further, the AS33970 headset SoC leverages the flexibility of the Synaptics’ Neural Processing Unit (NPU) to utilize use-case-specific Deep Neural Network (DNN) models. As the company details, these powerful technology integrations are key to enable both ENC and hybrid ANC in extremely noisy environments.
“Our customers demand a high-end headset solution that can operate and support office, home, school, e-sports café, and transit environments,” says Craig Stein, SVP & GM, Mobile & IoT Division at Synaptics. “Our headset platform SoC provides a unified hardware platform with turnkey, customizable ANC, and ENC algorithms while lowering system cost, providing manufacturers a scalable platform to support a wide array of wired and wireless form factors.”
“The dynamic market for high-end headsets demands a highly flexible and scalable solution to enable a wide variety of features and industrial designs. The AudioSmart AS33970 SoC headset platform with its highly-customizable architecture allows customers to deliver differentiated headsets in both form and function,” adds Peter Cooney, Founder & Research Director, SAR Insight & Consulting.
In August 2021, Synaptics announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire DSP Group, which in turn had just recently acquired Soundchip, a leading supplier of active noise cancellation (ANC) technology, engineering services, design tools, and production-line test systems for headsets. Synaptics is also the company that in 2017 acquired Conexant, one of the industry's leading audio and voice technology specialists, and more recently acquired DisplayLink and the wireless connectivity business of Broadcom.
The Synaptics AudioSmart AS33970 platform is now available.
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