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Dive into the Alif E1C MCU: Enhanced AL/ML capability in a small package

Introduction Alif Semiconductor has released their latest high-capability, small form factor, embedded microcontroller unit (MCU). The E1C, part of the Ensemble® product line, is designed to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) processes, making it suitable for performing advanced adaptive control decisions, yet small and energy-efficient enough to serve the wearable electronics market. 

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Alif Semiconductor’s Conductor Tool 

The Conductor Tool makes getting started with these Alif processors and microcontrollers easy, even for complicated configurations. New designers have a leg up thanks to this tool, and returning users know their configuration setup will be fast and pain free. The main purpose of the tool is to facilitate users in their application work with Alif Semiconductor families of processors and microcontrollers. The Conductor tool manages software configurations of device resources, pins, clocks, memories, DMA, IRQs, and various other additional settings.

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Diving Into Alif Semiconductor’s Secure System Architecture and Secure Boot Process

Embedded system designs are often faced with the challenge of balancing many contradictory requirements: high performance and low power consumption, device versatility and low latency, as well as security and application flexibility. Alif Semiconductor addresses these design constraints with dynamic and highly scalable microcontrollers (MCUs) that actively optimize all aspects of its core function including processing, power management, security, memory, hardware acceleration, connectivity, and software reuse.

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Introducing the Balletto family of MCUs: The industry’s first BLE MCU with integrated DSP function and NPU

From true wireless stereo (TWS) earbuds to wireless Bluetooth speakers, the Bluetooth protocol has dominated the consumer market for wirelessly streaming audio to headphones, hearables, or speakers. As such, Bluetooth audio technology is continually enhanced to support these use cases with techniques such as Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) and more recently, the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) audio feature, Auracast.

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