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Dialog Semiconductor Plc.: Dialog Semiconductor Announces Latest Audio
Codec To Enhance Smartphone Sound Quality
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DIALOG SEMICONDUCTOR ANNOUNCES LATEST AUDIO CODEC TO ENHANCE SMARTPHONE
SOUND QUALITY
New Audio CODEC enables mobile devices expose a deeper, richer bass,
clearer sounds and the ambient details present in the audio source
Kirchheim/Teck, Germany, 7 January 2013 - Dialog Semiconductor plc (FWB:
DLG), a provider of highly integrated power management, audio and short
range wireless technologies, today announced its latest ultra low power
audio CODEC, designed to provide full range, high fidelity audio capture
and playback to a variety of portable devices and audio accessories.
Dialog's new DA7320 audio CODEC features a programmable Digital Signal
Processor (DSP) to offload audio software from the host processor. The use
of Dialog's audio algorithms has been market proven by leading smartphone
OEMs to help deliver a consistent and enhanced user experience under a wide
variety of use cases.
By using a multi-channel architecture that digitally mixes and routes
multiple audio streams, combined with programmable N-band parametric
equalisation (EQ) and Dynamic Range Compressor (DRC), Dialog's technology
ensures louder and cleaner audio delivery on headphone and speaker
peripherals. A psychoacoustic bass boost (PBB) can be enabled for improved
perceived low frequency response for playback on low cost small form factor
speakers.
DA7320 is the first release in a new family of products that will be
expanded to include third party branded audio software, such as noise
suppression, acoustic echo cancellation and microphone beamforming.
Udo Kratz, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Dialog's Mobile
Systems business group, commented, 'Dialog's new DA7320 delivers natural,
immersive audio to wired headphones, headsets, earpieces and extremely
small form factor speakers as demanded by the thinner products that
consumers increasingly want to use. The device's built-in flexibility and
multiple ways to connect audio has already resulted in a reference design
win for a broad-based platform coming to market in 2013.'
The new audio CODEC uses a single supply voltage of just 1.6V, has an
ultra-low power consumption of 3.85mW and supports common sample rates
between 8 to 96kHz in master and slave modes. The DA7320 comes in a 64 pin
BGA package with a 0.5mm pitch and has an operating temperature range of
-400C to +85oC. The product is sampling now.
ENDS
Media contact:
Helen McInnes, Dialog Semiconductor, Green Park, 100 Longwater Avenue,
Reading RG2 6GP, UK
Tel: +44(0)1793 756 960
E-mail: helen.mcinnes@diasemi.com
Mobile: +44 (0)7554 419 180
Web: www.dialog-semiconductor.com
Note to editors:
Dialog Semiconductor creates highly integrated, mixed-signal integrated
circuits (ICs) optimised for personal portable, low energy short-range
wireless, lighting, display and automotive applications. The company
provides flexible and dynamic support, world-class innovation and the
assurance of dealing with an established business partner.
With its focus and expertise in energy efficient system power management,
and with a technology portfolio including audio, short range wireless and
VoIP technology, Dialog brings decades of experience to the rapid
development of ICs for personal portable applications including
Smartphones, Tablet PCs, digital cordless and gaming applications.
Dialog's power management processor companion chips are essential for
enhancing both the performance in terms of extended battery lifetime and
the consumers' multimedia experience. With world-class manufacturing
partners, Dialog operates a fabless business model.
Dialog Semiconductor plc is headquartered near Stuttgart with a global
sales, R&D and marketing organisation. In 2011, it had approximately $527
million in revenue and was one of the fastest growing European public
semiconductor companies. It currently has approximately 760 employees. The
company is listed on the Frankfurt (FWB: DLG) stock exchange and is a
member of the German TecDax index.
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Language: English
Company: Dialog Semiconductor Plc.
Tower Bridge House, St. Katharine's Way
E1W 1AA London
United Kingdom
Phone: +49 7021 805-412
Fax: +49 7021 805-200
E-mail: birgit.hummel@diasemi.com
Internet: www.diasemi.com
ISIN: GB0059822006, XS0757015606
WKN: 927200
Indices: TecDAX
Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard);
Freiverkehr in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, München,
Stuttgart
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