Low-Power SoC Drives AI Vision Devices

May 11, 2023

The Katana edge SoC accelerates development of AI vision and sensor-fusion applications for the IoT.

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Synaptics' Katana platform drives AI-enhanced voice processing using proprietary neural-network-enabled hardware and algorithms to clearly discern and capture user voices and related commands in challenging environments. Its AI-enabled, far-field noise-suppression technology removes extraneous sounds associated with challenging environments, and audio clarity is maintained with a proprietary four-speaker, acoustic echo-cancellation algorithm.

Supporting all major automated speech-recognition engines, the Katana-based solution provides a high level of voice quality with high energy efficiency.

Alix Paultre | Editor-at-Large, Electronic Design

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Also check out his YouTube watch-collecting channel, Talking Timepieces.