All items tagged with product development (919)
Upgrade Sensing for Your True Wireless Stereo Designs. Why Buy Four Chips if You Only Need One?
October 1, 2021 by Special Content

Upgrade Sensing for Your True Wireless Stereo Designs. Why Buy Four Chips if You Only Need One?

Azoteq recently released its second-generation four-in-one chip for earbuds. The IQS7222A IC is a multifunctional capacitive, inductive, and Hall-effect sensor with additional temperature sensing for reference tracking. The 1.62 x 1.62 mm chip allows you to add a touch-and-swipe interface, wear detection, docking detection and your choice of an inductive waterproof button or the inductive force-sensing features.
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Sound Solutions Austria Presents World's First Actuator Loudspeaker for Stereo Sound
September 30, 2021 by Joao Martins

Sound Solutions Austria Presents World's First Actuator Loudspeaker for Stereo Sound

The micro-acoustics experts at Sound Solutions Austria GmbH have developed a compact actuator that is able to ensure stereo sound quality when used to transform the display of increasingly thin smartphones and tablets into a loudspeaker. According to the Vienna-based company, the new “Singing Display” actuator is ideal for space-saving, waterproof designs, extending the response beyond what is possible with conventional speakers technologies, by being applied directly to the back of the large tablet or smartphone screen surfaces.
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Syntiant Accelerates Audio and Voice Product Development With New TinyML Development Board
September 30, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Syntiant Accelerates Audio and Voice Product Development With New TinyML Development Board

Syntiant unveiled its TinyML Development Board, an easy-to-use developer kit aimed at both technical and non-technical users for building machine learning-powered applications in smart products, such as speech commands, wake word detection, acoustic event detection and other sensor use cases. The new machine learning development board allows developers to build low-power voice, audio and sensor applications using Edge Impulse’s Embedded ML platform.
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Synaptics Accelerates Low Power Edge AI Audio Product Development with Edge Impulse Partnership
September 30, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Synaptics Accelerates Low Power Edge AI Audio Product Development with Edge Impulse Partnership

Synaptics announced a partnership with Edge Impulse, the company leading machine learning development efforts on edge devices. The partnership combines Synaptics' latest Katana Ultra Low-Power Edge AI Platform with the Edge Impulse software development platform used by thousands of embedded developers to create, train and deploy custom models for a wide range of AI applications. The combined solutions will make developing machine learning models for low-power connected devices even easier.
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Skullcandy's New Under $100 True Wireless Earbuds Offer Skull-iQ Smart Feature Technology
September 29, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Skullcandy's New Under $100 True Wireless Earbuds Offer Skull-iQ Smart Feature Technology

True wireless earbuds that offer truly differentiated features, such as hands-free control via simple voice commands, personal audio profiles, and software updates, are now a reality under $100. Coming from Skullcandy, the popular headphone brand leading that price category, the new Grind Fuel and Push Active TWS designs offer those features thanks to Bragi OS, and over 18 months of development effort by the Skullcandy and Bragi teams.
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T2 Software Qualifies First Bluetooth LE Audio Host Stack
September 24, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

T2 Software Qualifies First Bluetooth LE Audio Host Stack

T2 Software announced the Bluetooth SIG qualification and listing of their Bluetooth LE Audio Host Stack. With OEM's and semiconductor companies all busy building LE Audio solutions, T2 Software was the first company to fully qualify all of the adopted profiles and services supporting Bluetooth LE Audio. The team has been working closely with the Bluetooth SIG over a period of three years.
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Premium Video Conferencing for Everyone - Audio for USB Video Conference Must Be Better
September 23, 2021 by Elia Shenberger

Premium Video Conferencing for Everyone - Audio for USB Video Conference Must Be Better

Audio for USB video conference must be much better than audio for desktop conferencing. Think audio zooming on the speaker, high-end noise suppression and echo cancellation. Even 3D audio. As good as or better than high end conference systems. Pre-pandemic, video conferencing was a rather staid market. At the high-end, big expensive systems and plans for corporations. At the low-end, free Skype for the rest of us. Now, USB video conferencing is moving fast to redefine the domain.
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R&D Stories: Getting Started with Automotive Audio Bus (Part 1)
September 22, 2021 by Brewster LaMacchia

R&D Stories: Getting Started with Automotive Audio Bus (Part 1)

This is the first article in a four-part series about Analog Devices' A2B or Automotive Audio Bus, a digital audio bus technology originally developed for automotive requirements that is finding interesting design possibilities in other audio applications. This first article discusses the main features of A2B, and its use with I2S and PDM interfaces, before exploring the technical underpinnings of the A2B bus design and creating systems with the development tools available. This article was originally published in audioXpress, October 2020.
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STMicroelectronics Accelerates Wireless Product Development with STM32 Microcontroller Ecosystem
September 17, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

STMicroelectronics Accelerates Wireless Product Development with STM32 Microcontroller Ecosystem

STMicroelectronics is easing the design of competitively priced and power-efficient wireless equipment for smart applications in buildings and infrastructure by introducing new development tools and software for STM32WB wireless microcontrollers (MCUs). The company announced that his STM32Cube ecosystem was extended to support STM32WB wireless MCUs, with new STM32CubeWB firmware, upgrades to programmer and RF test tool, and an enhanced wireless power estimator for calculating battery runtime.
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New APEI Webinar Addresses the Use of Digital Twins for Architecting and Designing Audio Devices
September 16, 2021 by Audio Engineering_Society

New APEI Webinar Addresses the Use of Digital Twins for Architecting and Designing Audio Devices

The AES Audio Product Education Institute (APEI) promotes a new webinar series on its Modeling and Measurement education pillar to explore the use of Digital Twins as a new simulation-driven audio architecture design. With audio development of increasingly sophisticated audio products now starting almost always with the creation of digital models, the possibilities to adjust practices between different teams are driving new audio product development practices.
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