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Synaptics SYN765x integrates Wi-Fi 7 and AI for smart devices

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Synaptics is introducing its SYN765x single-chip device for using AI at the edge with smart IoT devices. It combines support for real-time intelligence with integrated Wi-Fi 7, aiming at battery-powered smart IoT devices, home automation systems, and Industrial IoT (IIoT). As well as the Wi-Fi 7, it integrates Bluetooth LE 6.0, and Thread/Zigbee across 2.4, 5 and 6GHz bands. And ...

Embedded: Synaptics, Google unveil dev board featuring Coral NPU

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Google and Synaptics have collaborated on a new, limited-edition Coral Dev Board, which is powered by Synaptics’ Astra SL2610 and features Google’s Coral NPU. It is targeted at AI and ML engineers, system architects and ODMs/OEMs, says Synaptics. And it is designed to support experimentation and rapid production prototyping. Coral Dev Board The Coral Dev Board uses the 1 TOPS Synaptics ...

Embedded World: AI MCU gets Cortex-M55 core and Ethos-U55 NPU

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Synaptics announced an AI MCU at Embedded World today, based around Arm’s Ethos-U55 NPU (neural processing unit) and Cortex-M55 CPU, plus a low-power Cortex-M4 CPU and Synaptic’s in-house mini-NPU. “SR110 dynamically adjusts its compute power based on real-time system demands,” according to the company. “This context-aware computing enables ultra-low-power operation while maintaining high-performance AI capabilities when needed.” There are three ...

Synaptics to acquire DSP Group

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Synaptics, founded by industry legends Federico Faggin and Carver Mead, is to buy DSP Group The merger  is expected to generate annualised run rate synergies of $30 million. DSP Group operates in the Internet of Audio Things (IoAT) with growth opportunities in low power SmartVoice, unified communications & collaboration, and wireless IoT devices. Synaptics recently announced a Low Power Edge ...

Synaptics integrates neural net acceleration at the edge

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Synaptics has  launched a family of Smart Edge AudioSmart products including integrated SoCs comprising neural network acceleration, proprietary wake word engine with support for custom wake words, and far-field voiceprocessing. It is called the AS3xx series. Targeting a broad variety of voice-enabled Smart Home devices including hubs, Wi-Fi repeaters, speakers and appliances, the AudioSmartAS371 is sampling now and incorporates a ...

Synaptics touch display driver cuts borders to 4mm

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Synaptics is sampling a display driver IC which it says allows designers to customise their touchscreens adding borders of less than 4mm. The R63353  driver IC supports a range of resolutions from Full HD for smartphones, to lower resolution 320×320 formats targeting smartwatches. The device has auto contrast optimisation for balancing the light and dark areas of an image independently ...