Overview
WhisperExtractor is a disruptive technology that addresses a major challenge in the voice user interaction space - low power consumption.
With the increasing adoption of voice user interfaces in everyday objects, it has become critical to have efficient and low-power solutions for voice processing.
Our product uses a mixed-signal architecture to efficiently extract the Mel Frequency Cepstrum Coefficients (MFCC) needed for keyword spotting, speaker recognition, and natural language understanding applications. By doing so, it reduces power consumption by up to 99%, enabling always-on listening at a power budget of just µW, on a 32kHz crystal. This disruptive technology allows for constant monitoring of the voice without the need for frequent charging or compromising battery life.
Learn more about Audio Analog IP core
In the massive world of multimedia, sound stands as a vital component that adds depth to the overall encounter. Whether it's streaming services, video games, or virtual reality, sound holds a crucial role in crafting immersive and captivating content.
Design and evaluation of power-efficient SoCs
By integrating an audio analog codec that implements the 'audio hub' functionality and is able to process and mix audio signals from asynchronous sources, system designers can free the scarce main processor resources for more relevant tasks and simplify the system design, thus achieving a more effective solution.
Consumer IC Advances -> Altering algorithms to create '3D' sound
Efficient audio is essential for low-power 3G mobiles
The virtual validation of subsystem performances (Pop-up Noise, Signal-to-Noise Ratio, Power supply Noise, Power consumption...) requires the modeling and simulation of complete subsystems. Application Hardware Modeling (AHM) consists in addressing the risks of performance degradation while integrating a Silicon IP in its Integrated Circuit (IC) and this IC on its Printed Circuit Board (PCB). The selection of relevant models for a subsystem performance, along with the creation and validation of models through equivalence checking, are the basics of Application Hardware Modeling for right-on-first-pass subsystems!
