The Design of Low-Power 16-Band Nonuniform Filter Bank for Hearing Aids

IEEE Trans Biomed Circuits Syst. 2019 Feb;13(1):112-123. doi: 10.1109/TBCAS.2018.2888860. Epub 2018 Dec 20.

Abstract

A computationally efficient, low-power (107.6 μW@1.1 V), small core area (2.82 [Formula: see text]@0.35 μm), 16-band nonuniformly spaced digital filter bank with stop-band attenuation of more than 60 dB is designed and implemented for hearing aid applications using a 0.35 μm CMOS process. The low computational complexity of the filter bank is achieved using a frequency response masking technique with multiple band-edge shaping filters. The proposed filter bank yields significant improvements in both power consumption and group delay. By coefficient sharing scheme, the implementation of such a filter bank requires only three multipliers.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Audiometry
  • Electric Power Supplies*
  • Equipment Design
  • Hearing Aids*
  • Hearing Loss / therapy
  • Humans
  • Silicon / chemistry

Substances

  • Silicon