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RISC-V chip to drive next generation app store of hearables
www.eenewseurope.com, Jan. 03, 2023 –
US startup Sonical Sound Solutions is launching an 'app store' for headphones and hearables at CES this week ahead of a high performance, low power RISC-V chip.
The apps run on Sonical's operating system, called CosmOS, that runs on both RISC-V or ARM-based chips.
"We spoke to hundreds of product companies and we found that there are dozens of features that companies want to put into their products and none of them can make them so we need apps so that third party developers can unlock these features, not just spatial audio but so many other things," said Gary Spittle, CEO of Sonical told eeNews Europe.
"We will show the full app store at CES and the first product not long after CES and then during 2023 there will be a handful of new products," he said. "We've been filing patents like crazy."
"CosmOS allows us to take apps from the cloud to the phone and push them to devices. We are starting with ear products and moving to other things, smart microphones, speakers, biometric monitoring and so on," he said.
Hearables startup Sonical looks to Dolphin for processor IP
Sonical is working with French design house Dolphin Design on a 22nm design for hearables.
"We are targeting 22nm and we have a huge amount of compute at our fingertips, we can stream audio and download apps simultaneously," said Spittle. "There's two designs in the mix. One is on a test chip but we are not fixed yet and evaluating it. It comes down to support. We haven't made our final choice yet," he said.
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