QuickLogic partners with Nordic Semiconductor for its Amazon Alexa-compatible wearables reference design using Voice-over-Bluetooth Low Energy

QuickLogic selected Nordic’s nRF51822 Bluetooth Low Energy (Bluetooth LE) SoC for its ‘EOS S3 Sensor Processing Platform Alexa BLE Wearables Reference Design. Below is the full press release from Nordic' on this subject: Nordic Semiconductor today announces that Sunnyvale, CA, based QuickLogic Corporation, a developer of ultra low power multicore voice-enabled Systems-on-Chip (SoCs), embedded FPGA IP, display bridge, and programmable logic solutions, has selected Nordic’s award-winning nRF51822 Bluetooth Low Energy (Bluetooth LE) SoC for its ‘EOS S3 Sensor Processing Platform Alexa BLE Wearables Reference Design’. The reference design is the first commercially available product to support Voice-over-Bluetooth LE connectivity with Amazon Alexa. Below are the other points shared QuickLogic’s Alexa BLE Wearables Reference Design combines QuickLogic’s EOS S3 Sensor Processing SoC—which features an ARM Cortex M4F-powered multicore sensor processing SoC enabling a vast array of sensor applications on smartphones, wearables, hearables and IoT devices—with Nordic’s nRF51822 multiprotocol Bluetooth LE SoC. The reference design enables connectivity to the Alexa App on a Bluetooth 4.0 (and later) smartphone using a custom Bluetooth LE Audio Profile via the nRF51822 SoC. Enabled by the QuickLogic EOS S3 SoC’s hardware integrated Low Power Sound Detector (LPSD), the chip consu...