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At CES 2014 in Las Vegas, Kronoton successfully demonstrated their patented stereo sound expansion process on HiFi DSP.

Hamburg/San José – Kronoton announced that the HDSX® software is now available for the Cadence® Tensilica® HiFi Audio DSP intellectual property (IP) cores. The solution was demonstrated at the International CES 2014 and redefines the spatiality of stereo sound. HDSX® expands the sound – independent of the playback device or audio format – in a fully automated manner. It can also be used in a parallel basis in order to enhance the sound of the matrix surround decoders from as many channels as desired.

Gunnar Kron, managing partner at Kronoton, said: “HDSX® is the answer to the great demand for stereo sound field expansion. We are delighted to become a HiFi audio of Cadence® partner, bringing HDSX® to the most popular and widely licensed audio DSP core.”

Larry Przywara, director of audio/voice IP marketing at Cadence®, adds: “We are observing an increasing demand among our customers for audio solutions that greatly open up the dimensions of the sound field – particularly for small speaker systems in portable consumer devices. The HiFi audio/voice DSPs provide a great platform for HDSX® and can offload the complete audio function from the host processor. We are pleased to add HDSX® software to our library of our 125 software products ported to the popular HiFi architecture.”

With HDSX®, the stereo sound field is significantly expanded. This results in more space for each piece of audio content and thus, the audio content can be heard more clearly – without any artificial effects.

Taken from Cadence.com