Weartech-Comms / Bluetooth / Wireless

Today’s consumers expect Bluetooth audio devices to create an immersive and uninterrupted listening experience. Bluetooth audio designs, however, can be limited by the bit depth and frequency rate of existing codecs, the communication and compression technology used to send audio over the air. To bridge this divide, Microchip has developed a certified, Bluetooth 5-compliant system on chip (SoC) with Sony’s LDAC audio codec technology. Sony’s LDAC is considered the highest-quality audio codec available, reports Microchip. It transmits up to 990kbits per second data throughput, which is three times higher than the standard Bluetooth Sub-band Codec (SBC), and maintains frequency and bit depth of up to 96kHz/24-bit. The high compression and reproduction efficiency enables high-resolution audio listening experiences for Bluetooth audio devices, adds the company.