All items tagged with AGC (9)

XMOS Launches XVF3800 High-Performance Voice Processor for Enterprise and Consumer Voice Conferencing Platforms

March 7, 2023 by Joao Martins

XMOS Launches XVF3800 High-Performance Voice Processor for Enterprise and Consumer Voice Conferencing Platforms

Anticipating the company's presentation at Embedded World 2023, XMOS has launched the XVF3800, a quick-to-market, high-performance voice processor for enterprise and consumer voice conferencing platforms. The XVF3800 combines acoustic echo cancellation (AEC), multiple adaptive beamformers, noise suppression, AGC, and more, and will be available along with a development kit, the XK-VOICE-SQ66.

Big Fish Semiconductor and Dolphin Design Partnership Enables Mass Production for Bluetooth 5.2 Audio SoC

July 21, 2022 by Cristina Costa

Big Fish Semiconductor and Dolphin Design Partnership Enables Mass Production for Bluetooth 5.2 Audio SoC

Dolphin Design, an advanced chip design company and leading specialist in Edge Computing and AI platforms, and Big Fish Semiconductor have entered into a long-term partnership. Big Fish Semiconductor’s U2 BLE 5.2 Audio AI SoC (TSMC 40nm uLP process ultra-low power audio chip), now in mass fabrication, is the first outcome of this partnership. The high-performance recording capabilities of the U2 BLE 5.2 Audio AI SoC are made possible by Dolphin Design's 24-bit delta-sigma audio ADC, which combines superior audio performance, small area and ultra-low power consumption.

Audio-Technica Introduces Complete Beamforming Ceiling Array Microphone System with DSP and Dante-PoE

January 27, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

Audio-Technica Introduces Complete Beamforming Ceiling Array Microphone System with DSP and Dante-PoE

Audio-Technica introduced the ATND1061 Beamforming Ceiling Array Microphone, designed for conference rooms, boardrooms and meeting spaces from large to small. The new microphone array was designed as a complete system, including dedicated software to manage its six channels into zones, and already features all required DSP with automix, echo cancellation and noise reduction algorithms. The ATND1061 is also available with optional Dante networking, powered over Ethernet.

audioXpress May 2021 Celebrates Its Glass Audio and Audio Electronics Roots

April 12, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

audioXpress May 2021 Celebrates Its Glass Audio and Audio Electronics Roots

Our May 2021 Glass Audio Special edition is certain to inform and inspire you. We reveal what is happening at Western Electric's new Rossville Works in Georgia, where production of 300B tubes is ongoing, we explain how to draw tube load lines, and we offer a valuable preamplifier design that enables you to compare the sound of tube and solid-state circuits from the same audio source. There's also a versatile stereo tube amplifier design to build, and plenty more audio electronics theory and practice in this edition. Now available online and in print.

R&D Stories: A Groundbreaking Approach to Gain Control that Cuts Conference Call Annoyance

February 11, 2020 by Erica Yorga

R&D Stories: A Groundbreaking Approach to Gain Control that Cuts Conference Call Annoyance

Nureva was granted three new patents for its Microphone Mist technology, including the ability to focus sound signals in a shared 3D space, and the use of sound source positional information to derive automatic gain control output parameters. In this article, two Nureva’s engineers to explain the thought process that lead to these innovations, which give the company substantial market runway. This article was originally published in audioXpress, February 2020.

Nureva Expands Scope of HDL300 Audio Conferencing System at ISE 2018

February 6, 2018 by Joao Martins

Nureva Expands Scope of HDL300 Audio Conferencing System at ISE 2018

Collaboration-solutions company Nureva is doing for audio conferencing technology what the Amazon Echo speaker did to home audio. It created a new category of “smart” devices with the potential completely disrupt the market. Now, at the 2018 Integrated Systems Europe show, Nureva is expanding the HDL300 system to reach out larger spaces and showing enhancements to its audio manager software, which is now automatically able to detect and perform updates.

Ideas, Focus, and Innovation, Available with audioXpress November 2017

October 10, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Ideas, Focus, and Innovation, Available with audioXpress November 2017

Discover some outstanding speaker designs in the Midwest Audiofest 2017 Speaker Competition with audioXpress November 2017. In this edition, audioXpress also features one of the most eagerly awaited reviews: the OPPO Digital UDP-205 4K Ultra HD Audiophile Blu-ray Disc Player. Focusing on audio processing, we discuss active noise control for headphones, and we address "Measurement of Audio Devices" that use automatic gain control (AGC). In our "You Can DIY!" article, Dan Joffe describes a 1 kHz oscillator with less than 2 PPM distortion. And much more...

Audio Precision Introduces AGC, Octave Analysis and Audio-Video Sync Measurement Plugins

August 31, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

Audio Precision Introduces AGC, Octave Analysis and Audio-Video Sync Measurement Plugins

Audio Precision introduced a trio of new measurement plugins for their intuitive and versatile APx audio test software, now offering attack-and-release, fractional octave analysis and audio-video sync measurements. Each plugin integrates directly with APx software (version 4.3 or later) and adds new capabilities while allowing users to take advantage of built-in APx features such as limits, sequencer control, derived results and reporting.

Loudness and the Listening Experience

December 19, 2014 by Joao Martins

Loudness and the Listening Experience

During the 137th International Audio Engineering Society (AES) Convention in Los Angeles, CA, a session on the Broadcast & Streaming Media Track discussed “Loudness for Streaming and Radio.” Thomas Lund (TC Electronic), an expert and longtime promoter of the loudness standards currently implemented in TV broadcast, chaired the session, which included an interesting angle from Bob Orban (Orban) and Frank Foti (Telos/Omnia).