Knowles IA8201 Dual Core Audio Processor
Knowles IA8201 Dual Core Audio Processor is specifically designed for advanced audio and machine learning applications, enhancing power-efficient intelligence, and privacy at the edge. Knowles IA8201 Dual Core Audio Processor offers robust voice activation and multi-microphone audio processing optimized for power-sensitive applications with the compute power to perform advanced audio output, context awareness, and gesture control for advanced consumer electronics.
Knowles IA8201 includes a 128-bit core (DMX) with a proprietary instruction set and a Tensilica HiFi3 core (HMD) with Knowles audio enhancements. The DMX is a 4-way floating-point SIMD processor targeted towards efficient performance computing (beam-forming, barge-in, AEC), while the HMD is targeted toward efficient, low-power, wake-on-voice applications with a two-way floating-point SIMD processor. Both cores contain dedicated accelerators for FFT, peak finding, and DNNs.
A rich set of audio, and general purpose high-speed interfaces enable flexible interfacing with digital microphones, other sensors, and a host for further processing. There are interfaces for 2x I2C, 2x SPI, 2x UART, 24x GPIO (with interrupts), and for audio: 4x PDM in, 2xPDM out, 3x I2S/TDM (4 channel in/out) to support up to four microphones. It includes 1.44Mbyte of single-cycle memory, with 1Mbyte available to store keyword models, engines or other algorithms.
The Knowles IA8201 Dual Core Audio Processor is available in a 2.6mm x 3mm eWLB or 6mm x 6mm QFN package.
Features
- Multi-core
- HemiDelta for low power
- DeltaMax optimized for compute and ML
- Audio interfaces
- Up to 4x PDM digital microphones
- 2x stereo inputs
- 4x mono inputs
- 1x stereo output
- Four mics, multiple high-speed interfaces, and GPIOs
- 1.44MB RAM
- Up to 3x I2S/TDM ports supporting eight channels each
- Packages
- eWLB - 3mm x 2.6mm x 0.715mm, 0.4 pitch, 42 ball
- QFN - 6mm x 6mm x 0.75mm, 0.5 pitch, 40 lead
Applications
- Low power voice wake
- Proximity detection
- Hub
- Security system
- Wireless earbuds