Infineon and XMOS Cooperate on New Voice-Recognition Platform that Combines Radar with MEMS Microphones and Audio Processing

At Mobile World Congress 2017, Barcelona, Infineon Technologies and XMOS partner to deliver a new building block for voice recognition. It features a combination of Infineon’s BGT60TR24B 60GHz 2Tx/4Rx radar IC with accompanying antenna, 70dB SNR silicon microphone sensors, based on Infineon’s dual backplate MEMS technology, and an audio processor from XMOS. In combination, the solution provides far field voice capture by audio beamforming combined with radar target presence detection.

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At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (March 2-5, 2015), Cambridge Consultants demonstrated its Pizzicato all-digital radio transmitter. The technology innovation firm says this is the world’s first radio transmitter built purely from computing power - a turning point in radio design and a real enabler for the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) and 5G technology.

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