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:: Our Mission

:: How we work

:: About the founders

:: Our history

 
   

   
   
       
     

bdSound Mission is to develop audio and communication oriented Intellectual Properties (IP) to serve Semiconductor Industry and Audio Companies in the field of Professional, Consumer, Automotive, Forensic and Communication audio.

 

bdSound aim at becoming a leading company in developing Intellectual Properties in all the field of High Level Audio Applications, through strategic partnership, internal research and academic cooperation.

 

 

 

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How we work: from IP to Turn-key Project

       
 

 

bdSound mission is to develop IP in all audio fields. However, thanks to its expertize, bdSound can offer Turn-key project.

 

bdSound can furnish complete product design thanks to hardware design experience, internally laboratories with all audio instrumentations needed. bdSound is not a simply consultant company: that is what set bdSound apart from the competitors.

 

Thanks to this, bdSound can offer two different business model to customers.

Firstly, we can provide IP on different platforms (PC software, VHDL, MCU, etc.) to customers who develop all the final product internally. This model is typically applied to large enterprise companies. bdSound assists customers with traditional co-design.

But also, thanks to the knowledge in analog and digital electronic design, signal and power electronics, software and firmware developement, bdSound can offer turn-key project (ready to sell).

 

Customer is never left alone and can find in bdSound a strong partner in its business development.

 

No matter which is the business model that best fits to you: bdSound is your key for Audio and Speech Solutions

 

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About the founders

       
 

Antonio Grosso

CEO and Co-Founder

 

Antonio is responsible for directing the company. Antonio was graduated in Electronics Engineer from Politecnico di Milano. Before join bdSound, Antonio worked in Analog and Digital electronics design for more than 10 years. Antonio was designer of Power DAC and Class-D audio power amplifier for automotive application in ST Microelectronics. He is an expert of mixed design (analog/digital) with wide competencies in VHDL design, both for FPGA and ASIC. He is author of seven international patents. He is also Competent Technician in Acoustics, as per Italian laws' classification.

 

 

   
 

Fabio Cagnetti

Co-Founder

 

Fabio was graduated in Electronics Engineer from Politecnico di Milano. Since he was young, Fabio's passion for music (he plays piano) has bring him to the technological side of the music, that is audio. Before join bdSound, Fabio was designer of Audio Power Amplifier for automotive applications in ST Microelectronics. Fabio has specific competences in all audio oriented fields: Acoustics, Electroacoustics, Digital Audio Processing, Audio Electronics. He is author of four international patents. He is a full member of Audio Engineering Society. From 2002 to 2006 he was Committee Member of the Italian Section of Audio Engineering Society. He is also Competent Technician in Acoustics, as per Italian laws' classification.

     

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Our History

       
     

bdSound was born in 2006 from the visionary idea of the founders, who believe that the better way to develop the best-in-class solution was to bet on research without compromise.

 

Here below some key point of bdSound history:

       
 

2006

 
  • October: bdSound was founded
 

2007

 
  • Release the first version of its Speech Enhancement Suite bdSES, including ultra-wide band Acoustic Echo Canceller, Noise Reduction, Audio Dynamic Processing and Adaptive Equalization
 

2008

 
  • Audio Amplifier Class D Technology with integrated PWM modulator for Amplifier, integrated PWM modulator for Switching Supply and integrated floating-point 40bit audio processor on the same FPGA

  • The first very low resource FPGA implementation of its bdSES Speech Enhancement Suite technology, including Acoustic and Line Echo Canceller, Audio Dynamic Processing and Adaptive Equalization

 

2009

 
  • Multichannel Ultra-Miniaturized Microphone Array Recorder with post-processing facilities

  • Audio and Data radiofrequency microphone for surveillance applications

  • Very small footprint 100W audio class D amplifier for automotive application with automatic detection of Navigation and Handsfree system

 

2010

 
  • Pro Audio Loudspeaker Manager and Matrix developing started, based on fully custom DSP integrated in FPGA.

  • Integrated system for VoIP communication on custom mixed platform HW/SW for intercom application with integrated speech processing facilities