All items tagged with Cirrus Logic (54)

Elliptic Labs Announces Support for Cirrus Logic Smart Boosted Audio Amplifiers

May 4, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Elliptic Labs Announces Support for Cirrus Logic Smart Boosted Audio Amplifiers

Elliptic Labs, the innovative Norwegian developer of software sensor solutions, announced a collaboration with Cirrus Logic to certify and optimize Elliptic Labs’ AI Virtual Smart Sensor Platform on Cirrus Logic’s latest smart boosted amplifiers for smartphone, PC/laptop, and IoT customers. Elliptic Labs’ software sensors rely on microphones and speakers to generate and translate ultrasound tones, which benefit from Cirrus Logic new generation audio amplifiers.

Cirrus Logic Introduces New CS35L45 Smart Boosted Amplifier for Mobile Devices

March 24, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Cirrus Logic Introduces New CS35L45 Smart Boosted Amplifier for Mobile Devices

As consumers increasingly use their phone’s internal speakers to listen to music, podcasts, gaming, and other applications those mobile devices where never intended, Cirrus Logic has introduced its newest flagship CS35L45 boosted amplifier to enable an improved audio experience from smartphones, tablets and mobile gaming devices. The new smart amplifier enables higher excursion for high-peak loudness, improved dynamic range and bass precision, with less noise and audible artifacts. It also helps to achieve improved tonal balance at all volume levels, enabling mobile device manufacturers to push audio performance to new industry benchmarks.

Dirac Makes the New Dual Speaker ASUS ROG Phone 5 the Best-Sounding Smartphone Available

March 18, 2021 by Joao Martins

Dirac Makes the New Dual Speaker ASUS ROG Phone 5 the Best-Sounding Smartphone Available

Swedish digital audio processing pioneer Dirac and ASUS, the electronics powerhouse, have raised the bar on mobile audio with the new ASUS ROG Phone 5, which features a new level of sound fidelity for a smartphone with dual speakers, delivering a spatial soundscape and accurate stereo sound localization. The ASUS ROG Phone 5 now becomes the first smartphone to feature Dirac’s breakthrough MIMO mixed phase speaker co-optimization technology.

TOP-electronics Named Global Distributor for ArkX Laboratories Far-Field Voice Capture Technology

January 27, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

TOP-electronics Named Global Distributor for ArkX Laboratories Far-Field Voice Capture Technology

Leading provider of advanced voice technology ArkX Laboratories announced an agreement with TOP-electronics for the global distribution of its EveryWord portfolio of ultra-far-field voice capture solutions. TOP-electronics is an international technology-driven distributor and representative of electronic components and modules. The ArkX high-performance EveryWord product line consists of an Audio Front End (AFE) Module, Integrated Voice Module (SOM + Audio Board w/AFE), and an AVS Development Kit qualified by Amazon Voice Service (AVS).

ArkX Labs EveryWord Far-Field Reference Design Kit Receives Amazon AVS Qualification

November 13, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

ArkX Labs EveryWord Far-Field Reference Design Kit Receives Amazon AVS Qualification

ArkX Laboratories, a joint venture between hardware design and development firm Surfaceink and consumer electronics manufacturing company Ark USA, announced its EveryWord Ultra Far-Field Reference Design Kit has been qualified by Amazon AVS. The advanced far-field development kit features Cirrus Logic SoundClear Technology and NXP i.MX 8 host processor technology and is a powerful solution for manufacturers dealing with noisy environments, different mic array geometry challenges, and the need to support 3 or 5 channels for surround use cases.

Audio Electronics: Testing a Tripath Power Amplifier

August 5, 2020 by Ron Tipton

Audio Electronics: Testing a Tripath Power Amplifier

Our late and much esteemed author, Ron Tipton, shared a fascinating project on testing Class-T or Tripath power amplifiers on the pages of audioXpress. As he characterized, these "small, inexpensive, and power-efficient units," sounded good "but testing them is problematic." The article also discusses the story of Tripath Technology and speculates on the reasons why the Tripath ICs remained popular among the DIY audio community. This article was originally published in audioXpress, March 2014.

Cirrus Logic Launches Advanced Haptic and Sensing IC Solutions for Richer, Immersive User Experiences

May 28, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Cirrus Logic Launches Advanced Haptic and Sensing IC Solutions for Richer, Immersive User Experiences

With the goal of elevating the user experience for a wide range of consumer devices, Cirrus Logic is leveraging its low-power, low-latency mixed-signal processing technology to develop an advanced product portfolio of haptic and sensing integrated circuits (ICs) that enable increased functionality and sleek buttonless designs for smartphones, PCs, wearables, gaming, virtual reality and automotive applications. Cirrus Logic’s haptic products and sophisticated haptic feedback technology enable sleeker, more robust end products with fewer mechanical controls for new responsive and immersive user experiences.

Voice Capture Challenges: The Threshold of the Golden Age of Voice

May 6, 2020 by Mike Klasco

Voice Capture Challenges: The Threshold of the Golden Age of Voice

Voice processing and recognition leading to the development of voice-based personal assistants is one of the decade’s greatest achievements and provides a unique opportunity for the audio industry. Leveraging those sophisticated technologies now available to the consumer electronics industry makes the investment on new designs much more exciting. In this article, Mike Klasco provides an introduction to the voice capture, signal processing and voice recognition challenges. This article was originally published in audioXpress, December 2018.

Nordic Semiconductor Launches Bluetooth LE Audio Evaluation Platform

January 8, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Nordic Semiconductor Launches Bluetooth LE Audio Evaluation Platform

Nordic Semiconductor announced it has launched an LE Audio Evaluation Platform in partnership with San Diego, CA-based Bluetooth Low Energy (Bluetooth LE) stack developer, Packetcraft. The LE Audio solution demonstrates the benefits of High-Quality Wireless LE Audio and is designed to support the new LE Audio specifications that are expected to be released by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) during the first half of 2020.

miniDSP Launches IL-DSP Tiny Headphone Amplifier Based on XMOS xCORE-200

August 28, 2019 by Joao Martins

miniDSP Launches IL-DSP Tiny Headphone Amplifier Based on XMOS xCORE-200

Those tireless folks from miniDSP have done it again! The Hong-Kong company just announced IL-DSP (In Line DSP), a tiny USB headphone amplifier with integrated DSP that is the perfect device to insert between any mobile music source and one's favorite headphones. This is a USB Audio class 2 device interface for PC-Mac-Linux-Android OS with a 3.5mm stereo jack output that is PCM and DSD capable, and features 10 PEQ filters (IIR correction) to equalize headphones, 3 button controls and an embedded microphone.

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