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Audio Processors

Voice Line Circuits

PoE

RPF

WLAN RF ICs

Line Drivers

Enabling the Connected Home

Connected Home Solutions

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Microsemi is a leading provider of energy-efficient and cost-effective semiconductor system solutions for the broadband home, 
delivering the right connectivity solutions for voice, data, and power. Microsemi’s ZL380 audio processors feature AcuEdge™ 
technology designed for world-class high-definition (HD) voice applications. Microsemi has been pioneering Power over Ethernet 
since 1999 and is the only supplier of reverse power feed systems and ICs for customer equipment and distribution point units that 
can be installed virtually anywhere, without the need to deploy local power. 

Enabling the Connected Home

VoIP Gateway and Broadband Router

• Voice Line Circuits     • PLC Line Drivers
• Wi-Fi

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 PA & LNA 

• PoE

• Automatic Speech   • Audio Event Detection 
  Recognition Assist

Set-top Box

• Voice Line Circuits
• PLC Line Drivers
• Automatic Speech  
  Recognition Assist

IP Phone 

• Hands-free HD Voice
• Multi-channel  
  Audio Processing

Telephony

• Voice Line Circuits

Home Security 

• PoE 
• Automatic Speech  
  Recognition Assist
• Audio Event Detection
• Two Way Audio

Mobile and Hand-held

• Wi-Fi PA and LNA

 

PoE

• PSE and PD ICs
• Midspans

FTTdp RPF

• CPE and DPU RPF ICs
• RPF Injector

Smart Speaker 

• Automatic Speech  
  Recognition Assist
• 360 degree Audio Pickup
• Two Way Audio
• Audio Event Detection 

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Designed for world-class high definition (HD) voice applications, 
Microsemi’s new ZL380 series of audio processors features 
Microsemi AcuEdge™ technology. This innovative technology 
is a set of highly-complex and integrated algorithms that 
enables extracttion of more information from the audio 
environment. Microsemi AcuEdge consists of license-free, 
royalty-free intelligent audio IP algorithms. With Microsemi’s 
highly-integrated ZL380 series of audio processors, AcuEdge 
accelerates time-to-market with a validated reference design 
and easy-to-use development tools including the Microsemi 
Audio Interface Box (AIB) kit, which uses the MiTuner™ GUI 
software.

The Microsemi AcuEdge technology enables full duplex 
operation between the connected devices to deliver seamless 
high definition (HD) voice communication. In complex noise 
environments such as gaming rooms and building lobbies, 
Microsemi’s AcuEdge technology cancels echo, maintains 
a constant ambient noise (comfort noise), and continuously 
converges during double-talk situations.

Microsemi’s automatic speech recognition (ASR) assist 
technology significantly improves performance for embedded 
and cloud-based ASR solutions. This enables extended range 
detection in noisy environments and provides exceptional barge-
in performance.

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Microsemi’s Timberwolf Audio Processing solution for Connected Home

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Voice Line Circuits

The miSLIC™ series provides the most 
economical solution for adding two 
channels of voice to broadband 
applications, such as residential gateways, 
DSL integrated access devices (IAD), cable 
embedded multimedia terminal adapters 
(eMTAs), and fiber to the premise (FTTX) applications. The miSLIC 
series supports ringing and system power management, enabling 
energy efficient control of two telephone lines and meeting the 
European Code of Conduct specifications. The miSLIC device 
together with the patented shared buck boost automatic battery 
switching (BBABS) power supply design are Microsemi’s most 
economical RBOM for two channels of voice.

The VE950 series offers high-performance, 
voice-over-broadband SLIC devices with 
universal differential ringing and codec 
interfaces optimized for short loop, power-
sensitive applications. The VE950 products 
are designed to interface to residential 
gateway SoCs with integrated analog codecs.

Power over Ethernet (PoE)

Microsemi has been pioneering Power over Ethernet since 1999, 
with the invention of Power over LAN™. Microsemi has the broadest 
Power over Ethernet product line covering PoE IC’s that send power 
(PSE), receive power (PD), and complete systems that inject Power 
over Ethernet in an intelligent way (Midspans). Microsemi’s products 
support IEEE802.3af-2003, IEEE802.3at-2009 in both 30 W and 60 W 
versions, Energy Efficient Power over Ethernet, and the 95 W Power 
over HDBaseT™ (PoH) standard. Microsemi’s PoE PSE product line 

includes IC’s and modules that can be used to build PoE switches and 
routers (Endspans) from 1 to 96 ports in a single power management 
system. Microsemi provides the most energy efficient and cost 
effective solutions to build PD’s consuming up to 95 W over a single 
Category 5/5E/6/6A/7 cable. PD applications achieve best-in-class 
power and thermal performance using Microsemi’s fully integrated 
smallest footprint dual pack Idea Diode Bridge IC’s. Microsemi’s 
midspans can be used in indoor and outdoor deployments, with 
advanced network management and energy efficient PoE models. 
 

Reverse Power Feed (RPF)

Reverse power feed (RPF) technology allows service providers to 
deploy xDSL DSLAMs virtually anywhere, without the need to deploy 
local power. Microsemi is the only supplier of RPF systems and IC’s for 
customer premises equipment (CPE) and the distribution point units 
(DPU). Microsemi’s RPF solution allows low cost, safe, and reliable 
power injection and extraction over xDSL including VDSL2, G.hn, and 
G.fast. It is compatible with DSL bonding and vectoring, and covers 
1-line DPU’s reverse power fed by 1 CPE as well as multi-line DPU’s 
featuring Microsemi’s FairPower™ for equal power sharing of all RPF 
CPE’s.

Wireless LAN RF ICs

Microsemi’s WLAN (Wi-Fi) RF IC’s portfolio for broadband gateways 
includes front-end modules (FEMs), power amplifiers (PAs), and 
linear amplifiers (LNAs) required to implement an RF front-end. 
Combinations include one or more power amplifiers with both input/
output impedance matching, a switch, and one or more low noise 
amplifiers. Microsemi’s WLAN RF IC’s can be found in multiple 
IEEE802.11a/b/g/n/ac reference designs by the leading WLAN 
baseband SoC suppliers.

 

Line Drivers

Microsemi has been a supplier of line drivers for xDSL technologies 
since 2001. Starting with ADSL, Microsemi now supports every xDSL 
standard inlcuding G.fast, ADSL2+, and VDSL2 with extremly energy 
efficient and long range capable products. Microsemi’s new power 
line communications line drivers support the G.hn and HomePlug AV2 
standards with bandwidths of up to 110 Mhz, for Classes AB and GH.

Figure 2: Industry-Leading Power over Ethernet (PoE) Solutions