Renesas Launches Highly Integrated Advanced Bluetooth Low Energy SoC

Renesas Electronics announced the SmartBond DA1470x Family of Bluetooth low energy (LE) solutions, which the Japanese corporation describes as "the world’s most advanced, integrated System-on-Chip (SoC) family for wireless connectivity." The new Renesas SmartBond DA1470x family features a small form factor with integrated applications and 2D graphics processors, voice activity detector and power management, enabling the development of very compact connected product designs.

Cambridge Consultants, part of Capgemini, and DSP Concepts, the creators of Audio Weaver, the audio DSP platform powering some of the world’s best consumer and automotive brands, announced an agreement that will see Cambridge Consultants offering deep audio product development expertise and technology to the many audio brands in the fast-growing DSP Concepts ecosystem. Cambridge Consultants will be also adding its own voice detection processing to Audio Weaver.