{"title":"An all digital concha hearing aid","authors":"J. Svean, A. Krokstad, S. Sorsdal","doi":"10.1109/ASPAA.1993.379990","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The paper describes an all digital concha hearing aid. The main features of this hearing aid concept are a large vent, acoustic feed-back cancellation, great flexibility by programming, a versatile equalizer, and an advanced compressor. The A/D and D/A converters have log/in characteristics and the signal processing is performed by floating point arithmetic, ensuring a large dynamic range and a signal to quantization noise ratio which is almost independent of signal level. The hearing aid contains a high speed two-way digital interface which is able to transmit measurement signals in real time. This feature provides great advantages to the fitting procedure. The main part of the hearing aid is a VLSI chip in 0.8 /spl mu/m CMOS technology, measuring 44 mm/sup 2/.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":270576,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1993-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ASPAA.1993.379990","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The paper describes an all digital concha hearing aid. The main features of this hearing aid concept are a large vent, acoustic feed-back cancellation, great flexibility by programming, a versatile equalizer, and an advanced compressor. The A/D and D/A converters have log/in characteristics and the signal processing is performed by floating point arithmetic, ensuring a large dynamic range and a signal to quantization noise ratio which is almost independent of signal level. The hearing aid contains a high speed two-way digital interface which is able to transmit measurement signals in real time. This feature provides great advantages to the fitting procedure. The main part of the hearing aid is a VLSI chip in 0.8 /spl mu/m CMOS technology, measuring 44 mm/sup 2/.<>