The Knowles AISonic IA8201 kit creates a single tool to streamline design, development, and testing of technologies for the IoT and Industry4.0. The kit is built around the Knowles AISonic IA8201 Audio Edge Processor with two Tensilica-based, audio-centric DSP cores; one for high-power compute and AI/ML applications, and the other for very low-power, always-on processing of sensor inputs. The IA8201 has 1MB of RAM on-chip that allows for high bandwidth processing of advanced, always-on contextually aware ML use-cases and memory to support multiple algorithms. Using the Knowles open DSP platform, the kit includes a library of onboard audio algorithms and AI/ML libraries. Far field audio applications can be built using the available ultra-low-power voice wake, beamforming, custom keywords, and background noise elimination algorithms from Knowles algorithm partners such as Amazon Alexa, Sensory, Retune, and Alango to open up the design possibilities and ensure the freedom needed to support a wide range of voice and audio customization.