Date: 22/11/2012

CEVA and DiMAGIC deliver audio SoC based on adaptive beam-forming

DSP IP specialist CEVA and DiMAGIC have partnered in delivering beam-forming tech based automotive SoC for in-car audio.

The technology called Flexbeam uses adaptive beam-forming to provide flexible directional control for a compact microphone array based on the DiMAGIC Corp Virtualizer X (DVX) technology. This technology is used for sophisticated stereo recording and high directivity audio recognition by adopting directional control methods using a built-in stereo microphone.

"DiMAGIC Corporation Ltd. has established a strong track record in consumer and automotive applications through its offering of very high quality, multi-channel voice enhancement capabilities. By integrating this technology tightly with the CEVA-TeakLite family of DSPs, product developers can quickly incorporate advanced microphone features into their products with lower costs and lower risk," said Eran Briman, vice president of marketing at CEVA.

"We are continually seeing requirements for ever more sophisticated sound capture technology, particularly in noisy environments like in-car infotainment systems. In order to address this, more powerful DSP capabilities are required to efficiently implement and run our audio technologies. CEVA's proven expertise and advantages in audio and voice processing platforms with its CEVA-TeakLite family are well known in the industry, and together we are able to offer a solution that is easy to implement, flexible and meets demanding cost, size and power requirements of these next-generation products," said Hareo Hamada, Executive Chairman at DiMAGIC Corporation Ltd.

CEVA claims its TeakLite DSP family is the most successful licensable DSP family in the history of the semiconductor industry, with more than 3 billion chips shipped, over 100 licensees, 30 active ecosystem partners and more than 100 audio and voice codecs and enhancement applications available.