Announcing NXP's Latest Breakthrough: How Silicon Signals Can Elevate Your Embedded Solutions

NXP has helped to shape the hearing aid market for the past two decades, supplying silicon for more than a third of the hearing aids currently on sale. The NXH2004 is changing the game in terms of audio quality, features and processing.

The NXH2004 is one of the NXP wireless connectivity solutions for hearing health. Building on the success of previous generation solutions, it features Bluetooth® LE Audio and Auracast™ broadcast audio, and enables advanced audio sharing as well as enhanced clarity, all contributing to a better quality of life for the hearing impaired.

Individuals wearing hearing health devices enabled by the NXH2004 will be able to enjoy enhanced audio from up to five different sources for the very first time, thanks to Bluetooth LE Audio. This opens up an exciting new world of possibilities, not only for those with hearing difficulties themselves, but also for their families, housemates or caregivers.

Seamless Connectivity

The NXH2004’s connectivity extends further, supporting MFI (Made for iPhone) and ASHA (Audio Streaming for Hearing Aids), along with Bluetooth’s Hearing Access Profile 1.0.

MFI enables NXH2004 wearers to stream audio to hearing aids from their iPhone, iPad and other Apple devices. ASHA provides similar hearing aid streaming solutions for those using Android devices.

Hearing Access Profile, meanwhile, defines the requirements for Bluetooth devices necessary for interoperability within the hearing aid ecosystem. It also specifies behaviors related to audio streaming and remote control of the hearing aid using the Bluetooth framework; and the NXH2004 is fully compliant.

Future applications for NXP’s latest audio SoC are equally transformative, with the potential to use the chip alongside applications like hearing glasses, with interfaces to support health and wellness tracking applications.


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