New Lattice Semiconductor Smartphone Chips Said to Offer Improved Voice Detection

Lattice Semiconductor announced availability of mobile field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) that are said to boost performance in voice detection and battery life in smartphones. Accurate and reliable voice detection and command recognition are important for smartphones, but “sound processing with a power-hungry processor quickly drains batteries when random sounds are misinterpreted as human speech,” said Joy Wrigley, Lattice product line manager, Monday. The Lattice “near-zero latency” iCE40 FPGAs improves reliability of voice-activated functions while extending battery life, she said.