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 ...
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Embedded: Synaptics, Google unveil dev board featuring Coral NPU
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
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
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
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
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 ...
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