I posted a blog on this topic a year ago. Now the Bluetooth Sig has (just) ratified the standard it is timely to provide a reminder on what this new capability can offer. Channel Sounding introduced in Bluetooth Core specification version 6.0 is a method to significantly increase the accuracy of Bluetooth-based distance measurements,… Read More
Spatial audio concepts targeted for earbuds and soundbars
Spatial audio technologies deliver more realistic sound by manipulating how the listener perceives sounds virtually sourced from different directions and distances in a 3D space. Where traditional surround sound technology uses various sound channels through many speakers positioned around a listener, spatial audio can… Read More
Production AI is Taking Off But Not Where You Think
AI for revolutionary business applications grabs all the headlines but real near-term growth is already happening, in consumer devices and in IoT. For good reason. These applications may be less eye-catching but are eminently practical: background noise cancellation in earbuds and hearing aids, keyword and command ID in voice… Read More
Automotive Autonomy’s Quiet Advance Through Radar
Given false starts and OEM strategic retreats you could be forgiven for thinking that the autonomous personal car dream is now a lost cause. But that’s not quite true. While moonshot goals have been scaled back or are running under wraps, applications continue to advance, for adaptive cruise control, collision avoidance, automatic… Read More
Ceva Accelerates IoT and Smart Edge AI with a New Wireless Platform IP Family
Ceva is a very focused company. In its words, the leader in innovative silicon and software IP solutions that enable smart edge products to connect, sense, and infer data more reliably and efficiently. You can see some of its accomplishments here. The company has been licensing IP for more than twenty years with more than 17 billion… Read More
Ceva Launches New Brand Identity Reflecting its Focus on Smart Edge IP Innovation
Company sharpens its strategy of delivering silicon and software IP that makes it possible for low power Edge AI devices to connect, sense and infer data, reliably and efficiently, across multiple high-growth end markets
Ceva Inc. is an interesting company. Founded in November 2002, through the combination of the DSP IP licensing… Read More
5G Aim at LEO Satellites Will Stimulate Growth and Competition
Low earth orbit (LEO) satellites as an intermediary for communication became hot when Elon Musk announced Starlink (yeah, other options were available, but Elon Musk). This capability extends internet availability to remote areas and notably (for a while) to Ukraine in support of the war with Russia. Satellites can in principle… Read More
Navigating Edge AI Architectures: Power Efficiency, Performance, and Future-Proofing
The surge in Edge AI applications has propelled the need for architectures that balance performance, power efficiency, and flexibility. Architectural choices play a pivotal role in determining the success of AI processing at the edge, with trade-offs often necessary to meet the unique demands of diverse workloads. There are… Read More
Fitting GPT into Edge Devices, Why and How
It is tempting to think that everything GPT-related is just chasing the publicity bandwagon and that articles on the topic, especially with evidently impossible claims (as in this case), are simply clickbait. In fact, there are practical reasons for hosting at least a subset of these large language models (LLMs) on edge devices… Read More
Bluetooth Based Positioning, More Accurate, More Reliable, Safer
Using Bluetooth for positioning is a topic I have touched on before, for location services, keyless entry, and asset tracking among other applications. Earlier implementations depended on measures of received signal strength and angle-of-arrival / angle-of-departure, but these have limited accuracy in environments with… Read More