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Advanced Signal Processing Products

Cirrus Logic

Carlos Vaquero

Odyssey 2016 Industry Track

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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)

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Cirrus Logic / Industry Scientific Community

Tech Push

Role of the Industry in the Scientific Community

Research Team Product / Marketing Teams

Pre-competitive collaboration

Close Collaborators

Universities, non-profit research institutes Competitor Research Teams

Scientific Research Applied Research

Challenge Definition

Ideas / approaches to

• vercome challenges

Market Push

Long Term Challenges

• 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?