Tanner EDA and Sound Design Technologies Announce Process Design Kit (PDK) Collaboration for Thin Film Technologies
SiPArray™ Integrated Passives Technology Combined with HiPer Silicon™ Software Provides Breakthrough for Complete A/MS IC Design Solution
MONROVIA, Calif. & BURLINGTON, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Tanner EDA, the catalyst for innovation for the design, layout and verification of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) and Sound Design Technologies (SDT), a leading designer and manufacturer of integrated passives and stacked-die assemblies, are collaborating to develop process design kits (PDKs) for analog/mixed-signal (A/MS) designers using Tanner EDA’s HiPer Silicon™ software. This collaboration gives Tanner EDA customers access to SDT’s innovative SiPArrayTM integrated passives technology and SDT customers access to Tanner EDA’s A/MS tools for a complete IC design solution.
“Tanner EDA offers a perfect blend of productivity, price-performance and interoperability that is ideally suited to the needs of our analog/mixed-signal IC design customers,” stated Ian Roane, president and CEO of Sound Design Technologies. “Our collaboration with Tanner EDA provides our mutual customers with an advanced design platform and powerful design capabilities to integrate passive components into stacked die assemblies to reduce board space. This will enable them to capitalize on advanced 3D packaging capabilities for breakthroughs in miniaturization and high performance solutions.”
“Our collaboration with Sound Design Technologies is another example of enabling innovation by bringing leading-edge process and packaging capability to our customers,” commented Tanner EDA’s president, Greg Lebsack. “Our specialized IC design software combined with SDT’s integrated passives and chip-stacking technologies arm A/MS designers with breakthrough capabilities to simultaneously save space, improve quality and reduce power requirements.”
Availability of PDKs
Sound Design Technologies’ PDKs for Tanner Tools will be available in Q1 2010. For more information on PDK availability and access, please contact SDT’s Technology and Manufacturing services (techservices@sounddes.com) or John Zuk, vice president, marketing and strategic partnerships at Tanner EDA (john.zuk@tannereda.com).
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Sound Design Technologies Launches RHYTHM™ DSP for Hearing Aids on WOLVERINE™ DSP Platform
BURLINGTON, Ontario (BUSINESS WIRE) October 20, 2009
Sound Design Technologies (SDT) a leading designer and manufacturer of ultra-low power semiconductor solutions for hearing instruments announces the launch of RHYTHM™ DSP for hearing aids at the 54th International EUHA Congress, in Nuremberg, Germany.
RHYTHM™ (SA3229 and SB3229) is a high-quality, superior performance trimmer-configurable or programmable DSP system for emerging hearing aid markets. Featuring four-channel WDRC compression, high performance feedback cancellation and a host of other advanced features, RHYTHM™ delivers first-class performance at an affordable price.
Ian Roane, CEO SDT comments: “RHYTHM implemented on Sound Design’s WOLVERINE™ platform enables our customers to offer a high-quality, cost efficient product for the emerging price-sensitive markets in the hearing industry. With multi-channel compression, adaptive feedback cancellation and trimmer controls; Rhythm is redefining the low-cost hearing market with performance that was limited to premium hearing aids in the past.”
RHYTHM features WDRC compression with choice of 1, 2, or 4 channels, adaptive Feedback Cancellation with high added stable gain and rapid adjustment for dynamic feedback situations. The WOLVERINE DSP platform enables superior 20-bit wide bandwidth (up to 16 kHz) sound quality on RHYTHM, delivering unprecedented sound quality, comfort and audibility to hearing aid wearers.
RHYTHM ™ is offered as a lead-free RoHS compliant part in SDT’s miniaturized WOLVERINE™ hybrid. The extremely small form factor of the product (SA3229: 5.72 x 3.18 x 1.27 mm3 and SB3229: 5.59 x 3.18 x 1.65 mm3) allows manufacturers to build hearing aids of all form-factors including CIC, ITE, BTE, and mini-BTE styles. Samples are now available; full production quantities available in November 2009.
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Sound Design Technologies Launches WOLVERINE™ Audio Processing Digital Signal Processing Platform
BURLINGTON, Ontario(
BUSINESS WIRE) - April 1, 2009
Sound Design Technologies (SDT), a leading designer and manufacturer of ultra-low power semiconductor solutions for hearing instruments has launched the WOLVERINE™ series of DSP solutions, consisting of programmable DSP platforms as integrated circuits or packaged hybrids and preconfigured hearing aid solutions. The WOLVERINE™ series will be unveiled this week during AudiologyNOW! in Dallas, Texas.
WOLVERINE™ (SA340x) is a full System-On-Chip (SoC) programmable multi-processor DSP platform maximizing MIPS/µW with a unique reconfigurable architecture, integrated high-resolution dual ADCs, DAC, 20-bit data path with high programmable flexibility and an ultra miniature foot print with best in the industry power consumption making Wolverine an ideal platform for audio and data processing applications such as hearing aid processors, portable audio entertainment devices, noise cancellation headphones, medical monitoring, enterprise headsets, Biometrics etc.
Combining industry-leading, cutting-edge 90-nm process technology with low-leakage transistor technology, the SA340x generation of fully programmable multi-processor DSPs offers designers the flexibility to add more features to existing battery operated products, portability to traditionally wired applications, lower heat dissipation, save energy costs on wired applications or meet any other application requirements for a low-power processor. The SA340x series of advanced ultra low-power technology is available in alternate form factors ranging from CSPs of 3mmX4mm to 5mmX5mm LFBGA assemblies in RoHS compliant assemblies.
Ian Roane, CEO SDT comments: "WOLVERINE is the industry's first monolithic product and a true system-on-chip with embedded processing cores, analog-to-digital converters, non volatile memory among other features in a truly miniature form factor which will enable hearing aid manufacturers to develop highly differentiated product lines for all segments of the market on a single platform."
WOLVERINE™ platform is supported with a complete suite of development tools, including Sound Design GUIDE™ that offers developers a complete solution for firmware development, debugging and testing. Wolverine DSP is available in alternate miniaturized chip scale packages for a wide range of product applications ranging from Hearing Aids to consumer and professional Audio and Data Processing applications.
SOUND DESIGN TECHNOLOGIES LAUNCHES INSPIRIA ULTIMATE™ DSP FOR HEARING AIDS
BURLINGTON, Ontario - Mar 31, 2008
Sound Design Technologies (SDT), a leading
designer and manufacturer of ultra-low power semiconductor solutions for hearing
instruments, announces the launch of INSPIRIA™ Ultimate DSP for hearing aids, which
will be unveiled during AudiologyNOW! 2008 in Charlotte, North Carolina...
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SOUND DESIGN TECHNOLOGIES LAUNCHES VOYAGEURII™ DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING PLATFORM
BURLINGTON, Ontario - Mar 31, 2008
Sound Design Technologies (SDT), a leading
designer and manufacturer of ultra-low power semiconductor solutions for hearing
instruments has launched the VOYAGEURII™ series of DSP solutions, consisting of
integrated circuits, programmable DSP products and preconfigured hearing aid solutions.
The VOYAGEURII™ series will be unveiled this week during AudiologyNOW! in
Charlotte, North Carolina...
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