NOD: QuickLogic partners Nordic Semiconductor
NOD: QuickLogic partners Nordic Semiconductor
"QuickLogic partners with Nordic Semiconductor for its Amazon Alexa-compatible wearables reference design using Voice-over-Bluetooth Low Energy
QuickLogic’s Reference Design employs Nordic’s nRF51822 SoC to wirelessly stream audio data to an Amazon Alexa smartphone application
Oslo, Norway 2017/11/28
Nordic Semiconductor today announces that Sunnyvale, CA, based QuickLogic Corporation, a developer of ultra low power multicore voice-enabled Systems-on-Chip (SoCs), embedded FPGA IP, display bridge, and programmable logic solutions, has selected Nordic’s award-winning nRF51822 Bluetooth® Low Energy (Bluetooth LE) SoC for its ‘EOS™ S3 Sensor Processing Platform Alexa BLE Wearables Reference Design’. The reference design is the first commercially available product to support Voice-over-Bluetooth LE connectivity with Amazon Alexa.
QuickLogic’s Alexa BLE Wearables Reference Design combines QuickLogic’s EOS S3 Sensor Processing SoC—which features an ARM® Cortex™ M4F-powered multicore sensor processing SoC enabling a vast array of sensor applications on smartphones, wearables, hearables and IoT devices—with Nordic’s nRF51822 multiprotocol Bluetooth LE SoC.
The reference design enables connectivity to the Alexa App on a Bluetooth 4.0 (and later) smartphone using a custom Bluetooth LE Audio Profile via the nRF51822 SoC. Enabled by the QuickLogic EOS S3 SoC’s hardware integrated Low Power Sound Detector (LPSD), the chip consumes just 640µW of power (in a typical use case) for ‘always-on’ listening and wake-word detection. When the voice prompt is recognized, the audio stream is compressed and transmitted over the nRF51822 SoC’s Bluetooth LE link to the smartphone. The smartphone then decompresses the audio data and sends it to the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) Cloud server. This results in the AVS server’s response being played over the smartphone speaker. A scheduled update will provide the option to have the response also played on a wearable device.
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"QuickLogic partners with Nordic Semiconductor for its Amazon Alexa-compatible wearables reference design using Voice-over-Bluetooth Low Energy
QuickLogic’s Reference Design employs Nordic’s nRF51822 SoC to wirelessly stream audio data to an Amazon Alexa smartphone application
Oslo, Norway 2017/11/28
Nordic Semiconductor today announces that Sunnyvale, CA, based QuickLogic Corporation, a developer of ultra low power multicore voice-enabled Systems-on-Chip (SoCs), embedded FPGA IP, display bridge, and programmable logic solutions, has selected Nordic’s award-winning nRF51822 Bluetooth® Low Energy (Bluetooth LE) SoC for its ‘EOS™ S3 Sensor Processing Platform Alexa BLE Wearables Reference Design’. The reference design is the first commercially available product to support Voice-over-Bluetooth LE connectivity with Amazon Alexa.
QuickLogic’s Alexa BLE Wearables Reference Design combines QuickLogic’s EOS S3 Sensor Processing SoC—which features an ARM® Cortex™ M4F-powered multicore sensor processing SoC enabling a vast array of sensor applications on smartphones, wearables, hearables and IoT devices—with Nordic’s nRF51822 multiprotocol Bluetooth LE SoC.
The reference design enables connectivity to the Alexa App on a Bluetooth 4.0 (and later) smartphone using a custom Bluetooth LE Audio Profile via the nRF51822 SoC. Enabled by the QuickLogic EOS S3 SoC’s hardware integrated Low Power Sound Detector (LPSD), the chip consumes just 640µW of power (in a typical use case) for ‘always-on’ listening and wake-word detection. When the voice prompt is recognized, the audio stream is compressed and transmitted over the nRF51822 SoC’s Bluetooth LE link to the smartphone. The smartphone then decompresses the audio data and sends it to the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) Cloud server. This results in the AVS server’s response being played over the smartphone speaker. A scheduled update will provide the option to have the response also played on a wearable device.
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http://www.nordicsemi.com/eng/News/News-releases/Product-Related-News/QuickLogic-partners-with-Nordic-Semiconductor-for-its-Amazon-Alexa-compatible-wearables-reference-design-using-Voice-over-Bluetooth-Low-Energy
Kurt