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This paper presents a power-efficient computing platform for hearing aids. The proposed platform composes four heterogeneous processing elements. Each processing element includes one tiny RISC processor and several power-efficient hardwired accelerators. The hardwired accelerators integrate static floating-point and truncated multiplier to improve signal-to-noise ratio and reduce computational complexity...
The ANSI S1.11 1/3-octave filter bank is popular in many acoustic applications because it matches the human hearing characteristics. However, the long group delay and the high computational complexity limit the usage in hearing aids. A Quasi-ANSI S1.11 18-band 1/3-octave filter bank is proposed to reduce the group delay. With the matching error reduction method, the results show that the filter bank...
Auditory compensation consumes significant power due to the computation-intensive operations in the filter bank. To reduce the complexity, a controllable filter was designed to replace the filter bank. Filter order was designed to match prescriptions within a specific error constraint with minimum computational cost. An interpolation scheme according to the variation of signal intensity was implemented...
Due to well matching the frequency characteristics of human ears, ANSI S1.11 1/3-octave filter bank is popular in acoustic applications, such as acoustic analyzers and equalizers. It is also desirable in hearing aids because the famous hearing aid prescription formula, NAL-NL1, prescribes its gains at ANSI 1/3-octave frequencies. However, the high computation complexity limits its usage, in which...
This paper presents an ANSI S1.11-compliant filter bank for digital hearing aids, of which the power consumption is minimized through algorithmic, numerical and architectural optimizations. This filter bank has been implemented and fabricated using the TSMC 0.13 mum CMOS technology. The transistor-level simulations show that the power dissipation is only 79 mu W for 24 KHz & 18-band audio processing.
This paper presents a low-power filter bank design for digital hearing aids, which is compliant with the ANSI S1.11 standard. A multi-rate filtering algorithm and its coefficient design method are proposed, which reduce 94% multiplications. The power dissipation is further reduced by 31% and 35% with switch activity reduction and multi-VDD silicon implementation respectively. The design has been implemented...
Existing digital hearing aids, to our knowledge, all exclude ANSI S1.11-compliant filter banks because of the high computational complexity. Most ANSI S1.11 designs are IIR- based and only applicable in applications where linear phase is not important. This paper presents an FIR-based ANSI S1.11 filter bank for digital hearing aids, which adopts a multi-rate architecture to reduce the data rates on...
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