World’s first BLE and Matter wireless MCU from Alif, features neural co-processor for AI/ML
Alif Semiconductor has released an evaluation board for its new Balletto product, the world’s first Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) wireless microcontroller to feature hardware optimisation for AI/ML workloads.
The Balletto MCU gives manufacturers the opportunity to implement sophisticated AI/ML functions such as natural language speech recognition, AI noise cancellation, key word spotting, and audio beam forming in true wireless stereo (TWS) earbuds, and sensor fusion ML models in wearable devices and other types of space-constrained devices.
Alif has announced the availability of the DK-B1 development kit for the Balletto B1, a wireless MCU series which combines a powerful 160MHz Arm Cortex-M55 CPU core with Helium vector processing extension for fast and power efficient signal processing, an Arm Ethos-U55 NPU, a Bluetooth Low Energy and 802.15.4 radio, and rich digital and analog capabilities in BGA or CSP package options.
Visitors to the Alif booth B4.106 at Electronica (Munich, Germany, 12-15 November 2024) can see demonstrations of the development kit for the Balletto B1 products.
