Wolfson launches digital audio hub for portable products

Darren Hobbs, Audio Hubs product line manager, said: "The WM8995 provides the first highly optimised digital audio hub solution for mobile phones and other feature rich portable applications. By combining Wolfson's expertise across its product lines, our audio hubs unleash world class audio performance and multiple use case capability at a low cost. "In addition, the WM8995 enables consumers to use the advanced functionality in the headset to skip, pause, amplify or mute music, rather than having to access the handset or media player." The WM8995 enables mobile phone manufacturers to efficiently port, mix and route audio streams from multiple processors to multiple transducers. Featuring multiple audio interfaces with sample rate conversion and digital mixing, and simple interface to speaker amplifiers which enable the smallest pcb footprint, the device also incorporates a dual capless Class W headphone driver which enables output power limit in countries that have legal limits for headphone power.