Graphical audio tool supports Cadence Tensilica HiFi DSPs

6th January 2016

Nat Bowers

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DSP Concepts’ graphical audio development tool, Audio Weaver, has been optimised for Cadence Tensilica HiFi audio/Voice DSPs. This technology from DSP Concepts is an innovative design environment for developing optimised embedded audio software. Development teams can create applications that realise their desired sound quality up to 10 times faster than traditional development approaches by allowing developers to work in parallel at different stages of the development cycle and by reusing pre-built, highly optimised audio processing modules.

The Audio Weaver technology enables Tensilica HiFi programmers to develop optimised audio applications using a graphical development environment without writing code or invoking a compiler. The technology empowers audio engineers to be more creative and efficient by streamlining all stages of audio application development from concept to real-time tuning. Audio Weaver provides a more direct feedback loop between signal processing architectural changes and resulting sound characteristics, streamlining the link from architecture concept to result.

The Tensilica HiFi DSP is the most widely used licensable audio/voice/speech DSP family, with support for over 160 proven audio/voice software packages and over 75 software partners in the Tensilica Xtensions partner programme.

Paul Beckmann, CEO, DSP Concepts, commented: “Audio Weaver has been successfully used in consumer, automotive and IoT applications and now, with our Cadence partnership, Tensilica HiFi developers can benefit from Audio Weaver's agile graphical design environment. The ability to easily evaluate and integrate third-party IP is crucial when facing ever-shorter design cycles. The Tensilica HiFi DSP is well suited for next-gen always-on and contextually aware microphone-processing applications. Audio Weaver accelerates the pace of innovation in this area and enables product developers to provide unique and feature-rich products.”

“With the explosive growth of the home audio market and increasing interest in high-resolution audio, audio hardware technology and the tools to support rapid development and deployment of products is becoming increasingly important,” said Peter Cooney, Principal Analyst and Director, SAR Insight and Consulting. ”Cadence and DSP Concepts' Audio Weaver certainly seem to have put all the pieces together to provide audio engineers with the means to deliver more sophisticated audio processing."

“Customers today continue to face grueling schedules and reduced development budgets. DSP Concepts’ AudioWeaver graphical design tool helps address those challenges by greatly reducing the time that it takes to develop, test and tune a complete audio system,” added Larry Przywara, Group Director of Marketing, audio/voice IP, Cadence.