SoundChip SA, a Swiss-based global leader in hearable sound technology,
today announced the opening of a new engineering centre focused on the
research and development of advanced noise cancelling (NC) technology
and providing comprehensive design-in support for customer-initiated
product development.
Conveniently located between Manchester and Liverpool airports, the new
facilities, which form part of the SciTech Daresbury campus, comprise
three biometrically secured laboratories, enabling "IP Clean Room"
end-product development. Each lab is provisioned with its own
state-of-the-art acoustic measurement equipment, including
diffuse-field-emulators and reference head-and-torso-simulators (HATS).
Additionally, to facilitate the precise cataloguing of developmental
work-in-process (WIP), the centre also comprises a secured materials
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Mark Donaldson, CEO of SoundChip, said, "Noise cancellation is an
increasingly important feature for our customers, especially in the
Bluetooth and True-Wireless-Stereo (TWS) product segments. As customers
look to deploy class-leading noise cancelling and smart audio features
across a wider range of products and price-points, it is imperative that
we grow our capacity to support them, and these new facilities
represent an important first step."
SoundChip also announced today that it would support the design-in of
certain third-party NC chips in addition to its own class-leading and
power-efficient HD-PA® devices by way of the company's proven Waypoints™
end-product development process and Soundstation™
computer-aided-engineering and production tools.
Mark Donaldson stated, "SoundChip recognises that in a growing
marketplace, integrated circuits are optimised for specific target
applications. With this announcement today, we have chosen to provide
our customers with access to a more diverse range of electronics and
software solutions where it makes best sense to do so."
