The coprocessor is said to give wearables and smartphone designers a faster way to give consumers more personalised, contextual experiences with their devices.
SENtral-A2 Features an Algorithm Context Framework that enables customer-specific feature extraction for activity, context and gesture, speeding design-to-delivery of new applications. It also supports Google CTS (Compatibility Test Suite); guaranteeing Google Android apps will run on a mobile device.
Available in a 1.7 x 1.7mm footprint, SENtral-A2 is pin-compatible with earlier versions of SENtral and is said to routinely run at more than 140,000 FLOPS, drawing an average current of 200µA from a 1.8V supply.