Ultra Low-Power ANSI S1.11 Filter Bank For Digital Hearing Aids
Ultra Low-Power ANSI S1.11 Filter Bank For Digital Hearing Aids
Ultra Low-Power ANSI S1.11 Filter Bank For Digital Hearing Aids
Outline
Introduction Algorithm & architecture Implementation results Conclusions
Ultra Low-Power ANSI S1.11 Filter Bank for Digital Hearing Aids
Introduction
Digital hearing aid
Auditory compensation (main block)
Filter bank Dynamic range compression
But high computation complexity (1,488-tap FIR filter required for a straightforward implementation)
So, we designed a low-power ANSI S1.11 filter bank to meet the stringent power constraints of hearing aids
Ultra Low-Power ANSI S1.11 Filter Bank for Digital Hearing Aids 3
F38
33-tap
mux
demux
F37 D
41-tap
F22
Computation complexity
band22
1,148-tap
2
35-tap
band22
96% reduction
Multirate
Ultra Low-Power ANSI S1.11 Filter Bank for Digital Hearing Aids
Architecture Design
data paths control signals
Block diagram
input
16
wen
16 16
Low-power optimizations
Clock gating Selective coefficient negation Multi-VDD implementation
MAC f39 d
82W
(122W)
(176W total)
(SRAM)
Ultra Low-Power ANSI S1.11 Filter Bank for Digital Hearing Aids
Results
Silicon Implementation
TSMC 0.13m CMOS tech. Cell library from Artisan 6MHz clock frequency (for 24KHz sampling rate)
control & serial I/O memory (SRAM) MAC
Sub-modules MAC memory system controller memory controller serial I/O Gate count 2,847 5,594 1,010 301 1,103
Comparison
# bands [5] [6] [3] Proposed 7 8 16 18 Process (m) 0.70 0.18 0.35 0.13 VDD (V) 1.55 1.6 1.1 1.2/0.6
*
Pnormalized
Ultra Low-Power ANSI S1.11 Filter Bank for Digital Hearing Aids
Conclusions
An ultra low-power filter bank has been designed & implemented
ANSI S1.11 1/3-octave bands Class-2 filter specification 24KHz sampling rate
It is optimized for low power at the algorithmic, architectural, and circuit levels
96% multiplications saved with multirate algorithm 55% power saved with architectural/circuit level optimizations (from 176 to 79 W)
Ultra Low-Power ANSI S1.11 Filter Bank for Digital Hearing Aids