Optek Selects Cadence Tensilica HiFi 3 DSP for Bluetooth 5.0 Dual-Mode Audio/Voice SoC
January 08, 2019 at 03:45 pm
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Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced that Optek has selected the Cadence®Tensilica® HiFi 3 DSP for its latest OTK528X Bluetooth 5.0 dual-mode audio/voice system on chip (SoC). Optek’s customers can take advantage of the HiFi DSP ecosystem for optimized audio, voice and artificial intelligence (AI) speech-based recognition processing software utilized in applications including hearables, wireless speakers, soundbars, on/in ear headphones, multi-channel AVRs, musical instruments, and voice user interface (VUI) devices. In addition to the audio and voice functions, Optek implemented the latest Bluetooth 5.0 dual-mode protocol stack and profiles on the HiFi 3 DSP to create a leading integrated audio SoC. The Cadence HiFi 3 DSP is the most energy-efficient DSP for channel and object-based audio codecs and post-processing, voice codecs and voice pre-processing. To provide their customers with the benefit of a single software architecture, Optek also implemented the configurable and customizable Tensilica Xtensa® processor core, which offers an architecture that can be optimized to the demand of the applications without redundancy and allows Optek to use a single product for multiple markets.
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. is No. 1 worldwide in developing and marketing design software for integrated circuits and electronic systems. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- sale of licenses (93.8%): design software, integrated circuit verification, simulation, and performance control systems, etc. In addition, the group offers maintenance services;
- services (6.2%): consulting, training, system design and development, technical assistance, etc.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (41.4%), Americas (1.6%), China (16.6%), Japan (5.6%), Asia (18.8%) and Europe/Middle East/Africa (16 %).
CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC. 
