Imagination designs the most advanced low-power Bluetooth 5.2 SoC product

Imagination Technologies and Packetcraft announced a partnership to jointly launch a complete Bluetooth Low Energy audio solution, which uses a new low-complexity communication codec (LC3). By combining Imagination's iEB110 hardware and Packetcraft's main protocol stack, this solution can realize multiple applications such as broadcast audio, high-quality multi-stream audio, and hearing aid support.

Imagination and Packetcraft have built a complete solution that can be easily integrated into a system-on-chip (SoC). Using this integrated hardware and software solution, customers can reduce development time and ultimately shorten the time to market, thereby gaining significant advantages.

Imagination designs the most advanced low-power Bluetooth 5.2 SoC product

Compared with the sub-band codec (SBC) used in traditional Bluetooth (Bluetooth Classic), the newly launched LC3 codec can provide better performance. Even if the data rate is only half of the data rate used by SBC, LC3 can provide higher quality audio than SBC, which allows it to significantly reduce power consumption without sacrificing audio quality.

Gerry Conlon, Executive Vice President of Ensigma, Imagination, said: "By combining Imagination's baseband controller and radio frequency (RF) circuits with Packetcraft's main protocol stack and advanced low-power audio (LE Audio) solutions, customers can obtain authorization and Quickly design the most advanced low-power Bluetooth 5.2 SoC products, so as to be the first to gain revenue in today's market in the shortest time."

Packetcraft CEO John Yi said: "Through the cooperation between the two parties, we are able to provide the market with world-class hardware and software products. Our master protocol stack that complies with the Bluetooth 5.2 specification has been licensed to many customers who develop low-power audio products. This cooperation with Imagination can provide customers with a solid foundation to support their technical needs, while providing a very flexible solution for the next generation of Bluetooth audio."

By supporting high-quality audio on Bluetooth Low Energy, the Bluetooth 5.2 specification brings major innovations and will enable a series of new application cases.

Imagination's iEB110

iEB110 is a complete low-power Bluetooth 5.2 solution, including radio frequency (RF) circuit, controller software and low-power Bluetooth master protocol stack. It supports various advanced features of the Bluetooth 5.1 specification, such as supporting angle of arrival/angle of departure (AoA/AoD) to achieve sub-meter positioning and tracking accuracy, and also supports various advanced features of the Bluetooth 5.0 specification, such as LE long distance ( LE long-range) can expand indoor and outdoor coverage, LE-2M bandwidth can achieve higher throughput and lower power consumption. With industry-leading RF performance, iEB110 can provide robust and stable connectivity while extending the battery life of the system.