# KeiAudio — audio co-processor design

Canonical page: https://keilab.io/hardware/keiaudio/

hardware · keiaudio

A co-processor design for real-time audio pipelines, built to run signal processing and inference inline, at low power, without round-tripping to a general-purpose CPU or GPU.

## What it does

A dedicated chip designed to take raw audio in and emit processed audio plus inference results out. Everything stays on-device by design — no streaming to a server, no wake-word leaking to a cloud.

## Why dedicated silicon

General-purpose CPUs and GPUs leave power on the table for steady-state audio. A fixed pipeline on dedicated silicon hits the latency and energy budget that battery-class devices actually need.

## Roadmap target

Dedicated silicon or an FPGA fabric implementation, in that order of preference — the lab already writes FPGA accelerators verified in simulation (see the MAX-OS silicon page), and an FPGA is the natural proving ground before any fixed silicon commitment.

cross-references

- [→ KeiVideo (sibling)](https://keilab.io/hardware/keivideo/)
- [→ FPGA fabric (proving ground)](https://keilab.io/hardware/max-os-silicon/)

Status: In development

Form: Dedicated silicon (design)

Target: Real-time audio pipelines · on-device

Sensitivity: concept public · spec and silicon NDA

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