Overview
This Bluetooth Dual Mode (BTDM) Software Stack is the most mature and widely used licensed SW Stack in the market for Bluetooth Audio (Dual Mode) and IOT (Low Energy) products today. The stack has been licensed by many companies including the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (BT SIG) for use in the Bluetooth Profile Tuning Suite (PTS). Customers use this Bluetooth SW Stack in both Audio Dual Mode (DM) & Low Energy (LE) v5.4 SoCs, maintaining a common SW code base across all products, enabling common customer support, and commonality of features, through a simple compiler option.
This Bluetooth Dual Mode SW Stack implements the complete Bluetooth v5.4 LE Audio Profiles and Services including but not limited to HAP, TMAP, Generic Audio Framework (MCP, CCP), Common Audio Profile (VCP, AICS), BAP, etc.
The SW is equipped with Advanced Codec Support for Audio Streaming using A2DP, LC3, SBC, mSBC & 3rd Party codecs (MP3, AAC, etc.). The Bluetooth Dual Mode Protocol Stack SW & Profiles have been optimized for TWS applications supporting different TWS implementations both the TWS relay method & TWS Sniffing method. The Software enables customers to reduce the market risk of integrating Bluetooth into the product while accelerating the development cycle.
The large base of customers is testimony to the IP’s high quality, proven reliability, functionality, and portability as per the adopted Bluetooth.
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The adoption of the Bluetooth low energy (Bluetooth LE) specifications v4.0/v4.2 standards is being driven by adoption in several markets such as the Health and Fitness devices, Beacons, Asset tracking, Home automation, PC Peripherals etc. Bluetooth low energy 5, together with the Bluetooth LE Mesh specifications are set to make Bluetooth the ‘Connectivity of Choice’ in IoT markets such as Connected Home, Commercial Lighting and Industrial Wireless Sensor Network markets.
Wireless audio (wireless earbuds, headphones and speakers) introduced us to a completely new level of listening convenience and freedom, prompting the rapid growth we are already seeing in this consumer segment (30% CAGR for wireless earbuds and 14% for wireless headphones). Now the race is on to further improve audio quality and capability in these devices.
Franz Dugand, Ceva
Navot Goren, Ceva
Laura Moore
Synopsys is now shipping support for Bluetooth® 5.4, the latest specification from the Bluetooth SIG (Special Interest Group). The enhancements in Bluetooth 5.4 will open additional markets and use cases. This is one of the many inflection points in the Bluetooth Low Energy market that will be discussed in this paper.