Audio

Unleash the full potential of Bluetooth LE Audio with Nordic

As the world's leading Bluetooth LE company, Nordic is an expert at helping its customers build class-leading Bluetooth LE Audio solutions into any audio product.
 
Nordic's customers include the world's leading brands and pioneers in wireless speakers and soundbars, headphones, musical instruments, microphones, and hearing aids.
 
Bluetooth LE Audio is enhancing audio quality for music streaming and the lives of millions of people who wear hearing aids worldwide. It is also enabling brand new, exciting use cases including Auracast wireless audio sharing and broadcasting to an unlimited number of receivers.
 
 

Nordic's Bluetooth SoCs are built for LE Audio

At the heart of Nordic's wireless audio solutions is a fully-featured LE Audio software stack that is optimized to run on Nordic's market-leading, ultra-low power Bluetooth SoCs. 
 
LE Audio brings the best audio quality ever to Bluetooth audio products. When combined with Nordic's class-leading Bluetooth hardware, you also get the best reliability in real-world operating environments, and the best battery life.
 
 

What Nordic offers:

  • Comprehensive LE Audio stack optimized for Nordic SoCs
  • Ultra-low power consumption for ultra-extended playtimes
  • Sub 30ms end-to-end audio latency for a seamless end user experience
  • LC3 codec for superior audio quality even at lower data rates
  • Configurable LE Audio stack that can be optimized to your application
  • Parallel operation with standard non-audio Bluetooth LE data connections
  • Connected Isochronous Stream (CIS) support that operates like Bluetooth Classic to ensure compatibility with legacy devices
  • Broadcast Isochronous Stream (BIS) (Auracast) support to allow for simultaneous audio broadcasting

Highlighted applications

Earbuds

      

Headsets

      

Walkie talkies

Headphones

 

Speakers

 

USB Dongle

Microphones

 

Hearing aids

 

Auracast Broadcaster / receiver

Wireless protocols for Audio

Bluetooth LE Audio

As the Bluetooth Low Energy market leader, Nordic is your best choice for LE Audio solutions. LE Audio is the next generation of Bluetooth Audio, making audio streaming over Bluetooth Low Energy possible. It enables new use cases and significantly reduces power consumption compared to Classic (BR/EDR) Audio.

2.4 GHz proprietary

2.4 GHz flexibity and simplicity

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