Technologies
Electronics
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Software
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Electronics
We develop hybrid, analog-digital audio signal processing platforms that enable advanced, digitally programmable noise cancelling, audio equalisation and open-ear listening. These platforms overcome the limitations of traditional discrete, analog component-based noise cancelling solutions as well as the power and patent challenges of pure, mixed-signal designs.
Each platform supports both feedback and feed-forward methods of noise cancelling and can be deployed uniquely or in a hybrid configuration. When combined with suitably tuned acoustics the resulting headphone apparatus is capable of removing almost all of the background noise.
Audio compensation is implemented separately and may be configured to mitigate the effects of the noise cancelling itself, as well as to shape the system's audio response. In addition, fully integrated, zero-latency, binaural talk-through enables natural, ‘open-ear’ listening, which can also be configured to deliver a fully immersive, augmented listening experience.
Our platforms enable a new generation of smart, software-controlled headphones which are responsive to the wearer's use-case and ambient sound conditions.
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ElectronicsSoundcore
A hybrid analog-digital audio signal processing platform which enables the implementation of zero latency, digitally programmable hybrid active noise cancelling, audio compensation, and open-ear talk-through. Comprising an analog core with a complementary programmable digital layer, Soundcore’s unique hybrid approach enables low power,
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ElectronicsSoundflex
A next generation mixed signal audio processing platform created to enable advanced, digitally programmable hybrid analog-digital active noise cancelling and open-ear listening in a whole host of personal audio applications. By combining the programmable analog filtering of Soundcore with a complementary set of digital filters, Soundflex
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Acoustics
We engineer noise cancelling platforms that deliver innovative features and market-leading performance. Each platform comprises a proven set of design rules and parameters that work in unison to shorten development cycles and provide unsurpassed certainty and confidence that ambitious product outcomes can be met.
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AcousticsSoundstrate
Employing patented printed circuit board (PCB) and wafer-silicon technology, Soundstrate supports the deployment of complex system-level audio solutions in the smallest possible form-factors. Soundstrate serves as an electroacoustic module, integrating active electronics, acoustic waveguides, filters and transducers within the substrate o
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AcousticsWolverine In-ear
Wolverine EA refers to an innovative electroacoustic platform for in-ear devices developed to provide a comfortable, noise-free wearable sound experience without suffering the effects of occlusion. Wearers of earphones designed to be fully inserted into the ear canal have traditionally had to contend with the discomfort caused by sealing
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AcousticsSerenity Over-ear
Serenity EA is an over-ear electroacoustic platform designed to accelerate the development of high performance, hybrid noise cancellation headphones with a customer-specified audio receiving response and an exciting array of innovative options. As such, Serenity EA exemplifies how our system-level approach to audio engineering can comfort
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Software
Our supervisory control software provides the means through which intelligent control, monitoring, supervision, and environmental adaptation can be deployed in noise cancelling products. Through the deployment of this technology, customers are able to significantly enhance the wearer experience of their products and resolve many of the common issues associated with noise cancelling systems more generally.
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SoftwareSmart Aware
Rather than limit headphones to a fixed set of modes, Smart Aware provides the headphone wearer with the ability to configure their listening configuration to suit. Put simply, Smart Aware allows the wearer to independently control how much of the ambient sound environment is heard in combination with their selected program audio.Â
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SoftwareAuto ANC
A layer of ‘intelligence’ that allows the headphone to autonomously configure its electroacoustic state in accord with changing acoustic environments. Noise cancelling generally operates in one fixed mode, retaining the same filter settings and performance irrespective of changes in the operator’s ambient sound environment. This me
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Tools
Our Soundstation suite of design and manufacturing tools has been developed by electroacoustic experts for electroacoustic engineers, and enables the accurate, intelligent, and timely tuning, testing, calibration, and programming of noise cancelling headphones and earphones enigneered for high volume manufacturing.
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ToolsSoundstation Engineer
A powerful and intuitive fingertip-controlled design tool for noise cancelling headphones that grants access to the digital programmability of SoundChip’s electronic platforms, or similar device alternatives. The Soundstation Engineer Electronic Development Kit (EDK) overcomes the traditionally time consuming task of tuning noise cancel
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ToolsSoundstation Production
A unique turnkey test and calibration system that leverages the digital programmability of our hybrid analog-digital electronic platforms to automate the testing, calibration and programming of noise cancelling headphones. Comprising a touchscreen computer connected to our internally-developed head and torso simulator (HATS), Soundstation
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ToolsSoundstation Mission Control
An online repository for all test results and measurement data obtained by Soundstation Production, and as such, an invaluable tool for broader big data meta-statistics comparing production batches to identity problems or inefficiencies. A lack of traceability is a problem encountered time and time again in the world of mass production, a
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