LC3 for Bluetooth LE Audio Now Available for Cadence Tensilica HiFi DSPs
January 06 2020 - 9:05PM
Business Wire
HiFi customers can immediately benefit from
latest performance enhancements enabled by new Bluetooth audio
mode
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced that
an implementation of the Low Complexity Communications Codec (LC3)
that is expected to be compliant with LE Audio, the next generation
of Bluetooth audio, is available now for Cadence® Tensilica® HiFi
DSPs and has been delivered to a lead customer. LC3 provides higher
audio quality at lower bandwidth and affords developers greater
flexibility in making tradeoffs between audio quality, power
consumption and other features for a more optimal user experience.
Cadence licensed reference code from Fraunhofer IIS to enable
availability of LC3 in conjunction with the initial LE Audio
launch, allowing customers to immediately benefit from the latest
enhancements including longer battery life, improved connectivity
and multi-user sharing.
“Consumer demand for a wide range of Bluetooth audio-based
products from headphones and TWS ear buds to portable speakers
continues to explode. We are excited that our contributions to LC3
help deliver higher quality and more robust experiences,“ said Marc
Gayer, head of business department in the audio and multimedia
division of Fraunhofer IIS. “We worked early on in the development
of the codec to ensure that LC3 would run extremely efficiently on
the Cadence Tensilica HiFi Audio DSP architecture, which translates
to extended battery life for consumers.”
“The fact that the LC3 codec can provide very high-quality audio
even at low bitrates makes it a key feature of the upcoming LE
Audio standard,” said Mark Powell, executive director of the
Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). “We are pleased to see
member companies working on implementations of the LC3 codec
optimized for various processor architectures.”
“Fraunhofer continues to prove that it is an innovative leader
in the world of audio/voice codecs with its critical contributions
to the new LC3 standard,” said Gerard Andrews, director of
audio/voice IP marketing at Cadence. “By working closely with
Fraunhofer throughout the development of this audio codec, we are
able to offer a highly optimized, ultra-low power implementation on
the HiFi architecture in concert with the announcement of LE Audio.
This is an example of how we’re continuing to enhance our
best-in-class HiFi technology to deliver performance excellence for
our customers’ audio and voice implementations.”
Tensilica HiFi DSPs are the most widely licensed audio/voice/AI
speech processors. Part of the broad Cadence IP portfolio, they
enable SoC design excellence in support of Cadence’s Intelligent
System Design™ strategy. For more information on the Tensilica HiFi
DSP family, visit
http://ip.cadence.com/ipportfolio/tensilica-ip/audio.
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