An evaluation board for Balletto product, the first Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) wireless microcontroller in the world with hardware optimization for AI/ML workloads, was made public by Alif Semiconductor.
The Balletto wireless MCU allows manufacturers to incorporate advanced AI/ML features like sensor fusion ML models in wearables and other space-constrained devices, and AI noise cancellation, key word spotting, audio beam forming, and natural language speech recognition in true wireless stereo (TWS) earbuds.
The DK-B1 development kit for the Balletto B1 wireless MCU series is now available, according to Alif.
It includes an Arm Ethos-U55 NPU, Bluetooth Low Energy and 802.15.4 radio, rich digital and analog capabilities in BGA or CSP package options, and a powerful 160MHz Arm Cortex-M55 CPU core with Helium vector processing extension for quick and power-efficient signal processing.
Visitors to the Alif Semiconductor booth B4.106 at Electronica (Munich, Germany, 12-15 November 2024) can see demonstrations of the development kit for the Balletto B1 products.
Key Comments
Reza Kazerounian, President of Alif Semiconductor, said: “The announcement of availability of the Balletto wireless MCU family marks a notable milestone in the progress of the embedded world towards an AI-enhanced future. Balletto is the only wireless microcontroller platform which can provide meaningful AI capability with the small form factor and low-power operation required in endpoint devices. Now innovative embedded device designers can start discovering for themselves the astonishing AI capability and advanced MCU features in the Balletto MCUs.”
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