Licensable IP targets SoCs for smart home applications

23rd February 2017

Alice Matthews

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Cadence Design Systems has announced that its Cadence Tensilica Fusion F1 DSP is part of the latest Methods2Business (M2B) WiFi HaLow MAC IP offering. The licensable IP targets SoCs designed for battery-powered sensor nodes used in smart home, smart city and industrial applications.

M2B leveraged the Fusion F1 DSP both to implement the IEEE 802.11ah MAC firmware and to run value-added applications like voice trigger, audio identification and sensor fusion on a single DSP. Customers can benefit from a hardware-software solution achieving a balance of low-power consumption, performance and programmability.

A demonstration of the complete WiFi HaLow MAC/PHY, including M2B’s IEEE 802.11ah MAC IP platform with the Fusion F1 DSP and Adapt-IP’s digital baseband, will be shown at the Cadence booth at Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona.

“The new WiFi HaLow standard promises to offer the ultra-low power consumption and security required to fuel the growth of the IoT market. By leveraging the Fusion F1 DSP along with our custom instruction set extensions, we were able to deliver on these promises in our WiFi HaLow MAC IP products,” said Marleen Boonen, CEO of Methods2Business. “Our unique and scalable solution allows us to target the smaller battery-powered sensor nodes and the higher performance, compute-intensive access points - all using the same flexible DSP.”

The Fusion F1 DSP offers low-energy, high-performance control and signal processing suited for the IoT/wearable markets. This highly configurable DSP is specifically designed to excel at DSP processing tasks like wake-on-voice, voice pre-processing, sensor fusion and narrowband connectivity, as well as traditional control-code tasks like communications stacks and RTOSs. All processing workloads are completed with low energy consumption in a small footprint.

“Customers looking at serving the HaLow WiFi market need a scalable platform to build ultra-low-power sensor nodes and higher performance access points,” said Larry Przywara, Group Director of Marketing, audio/voice IP, Cadence. “The Fusion F1 DSP-based HaLow MAC IP solution not only provides scalability but additionally its flexibility offers differentiating features to customer IoT applications directly on the modem - saving power and expense.”