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Confidential Information Cirrus Logic Carlos Vaquero Odyssey 2016 Industry Track Advanced Signal Processing Products

Confidential Information Cirrus Logic  Premier supplier of audio and voice IC and software solutions  HW & SW  HW: whole audio chain (MEMs, converters, DSP… from microphone to main processor and back to loudspeaker).  SW: embedded solutions for Audio specific processors and/or General Application Processor.  Noise suppression  Multi-mic processing  Speaker Recognition  Focusing on Mobile solutions / automobile entertainment / consumer audio applications  Speaker Recognition for Authentication  Medium size company: 1100+ employees in US / Europe / Asia  Culture A company of engineers (and musicians  )   Several Best place to work awards (Fortune, Statesman)

Confidential Information Role of the Industry in the Scientific Community Scientific Community Cirrus Logic / Industry Scientific Research Applied Research Pre-competitive collaboration Product / Ideas / approaches to Tech Market Universities, Marketing overcome challenges Competitor Push Research non-profit Push Research research Long Term Teams Teams Challenge institutes Team Challenges Definition Close Collaborators  This is our view of the Industry in the Scientific Community  Industry should help defining the long-term challenges  Pre-competitive collaboration in long-term challenges and in novel technologies (technology push)  What should the role of the industry be in the scientific community?