Cadence at CES 2015: Power-Sensitive Always-On Systems

LAS VEGAS—As the mobile world matures, opportunities abound for optimizing the user experience. For instance, voice commands now trigger a variety of functions and applications (think Siri and "Ok Google"), but they not only require the system to be on, they chew up battery life.

This challenge is about to fade. Realtek Semiconductor came here to CES 2015 to demonstrate at the Cadence meeting suite one way to overcome that challenge using its microcontrollers and the Cadence Tensilica HiFi Mini DSP. And its applicability stretches far beyond the mobile world.

Ty Kingsmore, marketing manager with Realtek North America, described this "always on, always listening" technology, which has the opportunity to transform how people interact with technology in the future in a much more natural way:

Brian Fuller

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