The boundaries between mobile phones, tablets, and PCs are converging, becoming nearly nonexistent. As this convergence takes place, vendors serving these ecosystems must find common ways to enable features and functions across their respective market segments. At the same time, designers face new bandwidth challenges as they strive to accommodate the increased number and complexity of codecs, microphones, and speakers in products. They need convenient techniques to meet audio quality demands from all of these devices without compromising cost, pin count, power consumption, or audio performance metrics. They also need to minimize electromagnetic interference (EMI) and software complexity...
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