The Balletto is said to be the world’s first Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) wireless microcontroller to feature hardware optimisation for AI/ML workloads.
The MCU gives manufacturers the opportunity to implement sophisticated AI/ML functions such as natural language speech recognition, AI noise cancellation, key word spotting, and audio beam forming in true wireless stereo (TWS) earbuds, and sensor fusion ML models in wearable devices and other types of space-constrained devices.
The DK-B1 development kit for the Balletto B1 combines a powerful 160MHz Arm Cortex-M55 CPU core with Helium vector processing extension for fast and power efficient signal processing, an Arm Ethos-U55 NPU, a Bluetooth Low Energy and 802.15.4 radio, and rich digital and analogue capabilities in BGA or CSP package options.
Commenting Reza Kazerounian, President of Alif Semiconductor, said, “The availability of the Balletto wireless MCU family marks a notable milestone in the progress of the embedded world towards an AI-enhanced future.
“Balletto is the only wireless microcontroller platform which can provide meaningful AI capability with the small form factor and low-power operation required in endpoint devices.”
