DSP Concepts: Audio development platform "Audio Weaver"

Audio Weaver is the industry standard development platform for audio. It allows you to design audio signal flows using an intuitive GUI, and implementation on an actual embedded processor can be achieved without any programming. This makes the entire design workflow faster and easier, contributing to the time to market of your product development.

We have a permanent on-demand seminar that provides detailed explanations of Audio Weaver, so if you would like to learn more about Audio Weaver through videos, please apply below.

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First, if you would like to get an idea of the basic operation of Audio Weaver, there is a demonstration video of a Macnica sales representative using Audio Weaver, so please click here for details if you are interested in the basic operation of Audio Weaver.

Audio Weaver basic concepts

Audio Weaver revolutionizes the conventional audio design process. In the conventional design process, various audio processes are programmed in C or other languages, and then optimized and implemented for the target processor. However, with Audio Weaver, audio processes can be designed using a GUI, and since Audio Weaver provides an optimized library for implementation on the target processor, users do not need to perform any extra optimization work.

In addition, Audio Weaver supports all major processors, so even if you need to change your target processor in the future, it will be very easy to accommodate that change.

Audio Weaver Supported Processor Cores

Audio Weaver supports the processor cores of each semiconductor vendor. Users can share design assets on Audio Weaver between various processors, greatly expanding the processor options in product development and enabling hardware-independent product development.

This also leads to improvements in the development process in line with the SDx (Software Defined anything) trend, where product differentiation is moving from hardware to software.

List of supported processors and cores

Supported processor core
DSP, MCU and Application Processors	Standard/extended audio processing IP	Audio processing IP
ARM Cortex-M4、-M7、-M33	Optimized	Optimized
ARM Cortex-A	Optimized	Optimized
Cadence HiFi2 & HiFi3 (Fixed-point only)	Optimized	N/A
Cadence HiFi4	Optimized	Optimized
ADI SHARC、ADI SHARC + UL XP	Optimized	Optimized
TI C66x	Optimized	Optimized
CEVA X2	Optimized	Optimized
Qualcomm Hexagon (V66)	Optimized	Optimized
X86 Windows & Linux	Optimized	Optimized
Cadence HiFi5	Optimized	Optimized
ARM Cortex-M55 (Helium)	Optimized	Optimized
Risc V	Roadmap	Roadmap

Supported semiconductor vendors

Corresponding semiconductor vendor table

Audio Weaver Product Overview

Audio Weaver (AWE) is a GUI-based real-time workflow for designing, tuning, debugging, and profiling. Audio Weaver is roughly divided into AWE Designer and AWE Core.

AWE Designer

Windows-based graphical design environment
Audio design with drag and drop
Over 550 standard audio modules available
no programming required
Profiling function (processing load/memory amount)
MATLAB Platform Support (Pro Edition)

AWE Core

Built-in audio processing engine
Libraries optimized for target processor cores
Supports multi-core, multi-instance implementations
Compatible with multiple processors

Audio Weaver Operation Overview

The script information of the audio flow designed in AWE Designer is converted into binary by the AWE Server, and finally implemented and executed on the target processor core by the AWE Core.

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For those who are considering introducing Audio Weaver, the following page explains the licenses required for each phase.

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We have a regular on-demand seminar that provides a detailed explanation of Audio Weaver. If you are having issues with the man-hours involved in audio processing development, we think you will find the content useful, so please apply.

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Audio Weaver, DSP Concepts, an audio expert, and eco-partners provide various types of support and contract development.

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This article includes a demonstration video that shows how even salespeople with no audio development experience can easily get sound out of an evaluation board by using Audio Weaver from DSP Concepts. If you are interested in the basic operation of Audio Weaver, please read the article below.

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