POLYN signs first customer

Author: EIS Release Date: Dec 6, 2022

Three year-old fabless POLYN Technology of Caesarea, specialising in Neuromorphic Analog Signal Processing (NASP) Tiny AI chips, has signed the first contract for its NeuroVoice voice processing IC.

 

The chip performs on-chip Voice Activity Recognition and voice extraction from any noisy background.

 

It also offers Wake Word Detection and Keyword Spotting.

 

All voice features can be used in any combination or separately, based on the customer’s requirements.

 

The contract is with a home appliance company that wanted a device that recognises voice commands offline, eliminating any need to access the cloud.

 

That assures end users that their privacy won’t be violated. The NASP-based NeuroVoice has an analogue neuromorphic design, performing maximum MAC operations in analogue.

 

The NASP framework and tools convert a neural network into a silicon IC  implemented in 65nm CMOS and BEOL.

 

NeuroVoice will be integrated right after the sensor to provide a binary output of voice detection to wake up other functions.

 

In the first stage of the project, POLYN will provide  Voice Activity Recognition with a die size of 1.5×1.5mm for always-on environment monitoring for Voice Detection.

 

The final product will contain all voice features in 3.5×3.5mm die size, delivering a total power consumption of only 150µW for the whole inference.

 

“We anticipate that this contract will result in several millions of dollars of revenue for POLYN over the next two years,” says CEO Aleksandr  Timofeev.