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Microsemi Unveils ZL38040 [Travel & Leisure Close - Up](Travel & Leisure Close - Up Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Microsemi on September 23 unveiled the first product in its new Timberwolf family. According to a company release, the ZL38040, powered by Microsemi's AcuEdge acoustic technology, delivers high definition (HD) voice communication solutions for the enterprise hands-free speakerphone markets. Microsemi noted that its ZL38040 is a new device with a wideband acoustic echo canceller designed to provide echo cancellation and noise reduction for HD audio speaker phone and IP phone applications. Microsemi's patented AcuEdge firmware and its acoustic echo canceller permit significantly more audio information to be transmitted while blocking interfering signals such as echo and background noise. "Our second-generation family of voice processing solutions takes our AcuEdge acoustic technology to the next level, catering to today's most demanding enterprise hands-free and voice market applications," said Roger Holliday, senior vice president and general manager, communications product group at Microsemi. "These world-class solutions bring significant feature benefits to the emerging hands-free audio/voice market, enabling designers to develop pioneering applications that perform reliable communication based on audio intelligence." To complement the ZL38040 hardware and AcuEdge software, Microsemi provides a development package to accelerate customers' time-to-market via a validated reference design and tools that include MiTuner, an automated AEC tuning kit. The ZL38040 Timberwolf provides a DSP with voice specific hardware accelerators, three digital microphone interfaces, two independent 16-bit DACs with headphone drivers and two TDM interfaces in a single 64-pin QFN package. Microsemi's ZL38040 powered by the AcuEdge acoustic technology is available now. Microsemi offers a portfolio of semiconductor and system solutions for communications, defense & security, aerospace and industrial markets. More information: www.microsemi.com/audio-processing. www.microsemi.com. ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) (c) 2014 ProQuest Information and Learning Company; All Rights Reserved. |