Our software is designed to achieve maximum flexibility while still keeping the performance (i.e. latency and processing load) as low as possible. Highly optimized algorithms ensure that.
This makes it easy to customize our software to just what you need without a hassle. This prevents costly computational overheads and ensures that our software runs perfectly on your platform. Our core algorithms are programmed in C and thus run on virtually anything.
Depending on your application, we ship apps, libs or source code.
Our real-time signal processing toolkit comprises:
Powered by our in-house graphical signal flow design tools, we quickly combine our as well as third-party digital signal processing modules to a signal flow that exactly fits your needs.
All signal processing algorithms are implemented in plain C99, having in mind compilers and their vectorization features as well as platforms such as ARM and x86 with their instruction sets.
Our automated code generation and optimization tools provide up to another 30% performance gain. Please contact us for more details.
Our software is exceptionally modular which makes it very flexible. All modules are designed to fit in multiple applications and can easily be combined to arbitrary signal flows.
We follow clean-code and test-driven development rules. We have been using Continuous integration from the first line of code. Every change in code triggers manual unit tests, auto-generated tests, monkey tests and integration tests.
We shipped our software for the following platforms so far:
and are happy to add yours to the list!
We shipped our software for the following operating systems so far:
Tune all signal processing algorithms with our tools!
This is accomplished using sonowareCom.
In every signal processing system there are hundreds or even thousands of parameters that can be adjusted for optimal performance of the algorithms. Managing these parameters and evaluating their effect on the output of the system can be a tedious effort.
With sonowareUI this can be done effortlessly and in real-time. In addition to that, we have integrated a plethora of useful features and tools to make sonowareUI a real powerhouse for tuning signal processing systems.
sonowareUI connects to all signal processing solutions offered by sonoware. Change all parameters of the system via an intuitive and clean interface in real-time and directly observe the influence on the system performance.
All changes in the signal processing system are automatically synchronized with each instance of sonowareUI connected, so you are always up to date.
No matter if the signal processing core is running on an embedded system with limited I/O or a fully-fledged SoC the underlying communication interface will handle all situations and enable the use of sonowareUI for almost every platform.
Sometimes it is hard to find the parameter you are looking for. Use the built-in search feature to quickly jump to any
You need to record some data for later evaluation or offline-analysis? No problem, with the built-in recording feature sonowareUI lets you stream and record all time-domain signals to the system running sonowareUI.
You are running sonowareUI from a different room or even from a different country entirely and need to evaluate the performance of the system? We got you covered! sonowareUI also enables you to listen to any signal in real-time.
Whenever you are unsure about the effect of a parameter, simply double-click on the widget in sonowareUI to access the built-in documentation for all sonoware signal processing modules.
This will make you an expert in tuning audio systems in no time.
Often you need to adjust the same set of parameter over and over again. There is no need to memorize all the relevant parameters and jump between different modules. Just use the favorites feature to create your own customized selection of parameters into a single tab – even from different modules across the system.
After a long tuning session it might be hard to remember all adjustments made to the system. With the detailed history feature of sonowareUI you can easily scroll through a log of all changes made to the system in the current session.
But that’s not all! You can also create snapshots to return to a specific tuning state that you liked.
sonowareUI guides you through all the required steps, notifies you when test-cases require interaction with the system and reports any warnings and failures straight away.
After each test a detailed and comprehensive HTML test-report is generated. It covers all the test-cases, achieved and expected metrics, and any failures. Each failure includes a description for potential steps to take to resolve the failure.
We provide detailed graphs for every measurement, that allow you and us to quickly analyze the measurements and identify and narrow potential failure causes.
You can load impulse responses from various sources into the analysis UI:
Use the automated analytics to gain knwoledge about the acoustic paths in your system:
Measure impulse response, set sensible default values for peak-filters, equalization filters, noise-dependent gain curves, estimate and set feedback control coupling factors, and more.
Build your array geometries quickly and easily from a selection of parametrized primitive geometries and modifiers.
Inspect your geometry using our responsive live-preview of the array.
Choose between preset characteristics such as cardioid or rectangular and easily customize the target-angles or weights.
Design your beamformer in just seconds and inspect the achieved beampattern.
Deploy the designed beamformer to a running sonoware audio suite in 1-click and instantly hear the difference: no restart, no hassle.
A standard single microphone is not able to separate the desired signal, which is often a speaking person, from disturbing sounds. The human being is able to filter out undesired sounds and concentrate on a single sound source – a phenomenon known as the cocktail party effect. A microphone is constantly listening to everything and picks up sound from all directions.
This problem can be solved by combining multiple microphones to make this array “listen” into a configurable direction. This technique is called beamforming. Record just what you want to hear and block all disturbing sounds.
Using multiple microphones enables the beamforming software to estimate the direction of any given sound by making use of the different times of arrival at the individual microphones.
sonoware offers several design methods to control the direction and width of the beam the microphone array is listening to, including:
Of course the design is integrated into our universal UI, check it out!
We offer our beamforming solutions as a standalone software as well as integrated into all of our signal processing suites. No matter if you want to block disturbing background noise in the car to optimize the recorded signal of the passengers or you want to focus on a speaker in a noisy operating room or you need a clean speech signal for speech recognition – beamforming solutions by sonoware will get you there fast and easily.
Please follow the links to the side to find out more about our various applications of beamforming solutions.
Beamforming solutions can be scaled according to the environment they are used in:
You are just starting a new project and want to explore the performance of beamforming in your environment?
sonoware can accompany you on your way to the finished product from start to finish. We offer consulting services, prototyping for customized MEMS microphone arrays that perfectly fit your environment and products as well as complete demonstrators.
