{"title":"Modeling and Simulation of Frequency Response Masking FIR Filter Bank using Approximate Multiplier for Hearing Aid Application","authors":"Ramya Raghavachari, Moorthi Sridharan","doi":"10.25728/ASSA.2018.18.4.617","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The tremendous increase in the use of portable electronic devices is due to the development in the fields of signal processing and electronic technology. These battery operated devices needs reduction in power consumption with increased performance and long battery life. Since CMOS technology scaling fast approaches its physical limit of minimum supply voltage and smaller feature size, the hardware designer has to opt for new multiplier architectures for achieving low power and high speed performance. This paper proposes an area and power efficient approximate multiplier architecture. The error metrics are estimated to verify its performance advantage over other approximate multipliers. Using Frequency Response masking approach, a 6-band non-uniform digital FIR filter bank is developed using approximate multiplier for hearing aid application. Audiogram matching is done with audiograms of two different types of hearing losses and the matching error is computed. Simulation results show that the audiogram matching error falls within +/- 4 dB range.","PeriodicalId":39095,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Systems Science and Applications","volume":"18 1","pages":"74-91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Advances in Systems Science and Applications","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.25728/ASSA.2018.18.4.617","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Engineering","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The tremendous increase in the use of portable electronic devices is due to the development in the fields of signal processing and electronic technology. These battery operated devices needs reduction in power consumption with increased performance and long battery life. Since CMOS technology scaling fast approaches its physical limit of minimum supply voltage and smaller feature size, the hardware designer has to opt for new multiplier architectures for achieving low power and high speed performance. This paper proposes an area and power efficient approximate multiplier architecture. The error metrics are estimated to verify its performance advantage over other approximate multipliers. Using Frequency Response masking approach, a 6-band non-uniform digital FIR filter bank is developed using approximate multiplier for hearing aid application. Audiogram matching is done with audiograms of two different types of hearing losses and the matching error is computed. Simulation results show that the audiogram matching error falls within +/- 4 dB range.
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Advances in Systems Science and Applications (ASSA) is an international peer-reviewed open-source online academic journal. Its scope covers all major aspects of systems (and processes) analysis, modeling, simulation, and control, ranging from theoretical and methodological developments to a large variety of application areas. Survey articles and innovative results are also welcome. ASSA is aimed at the audience of scientists, engineers and researchers working in the framework of these problems. ASSA should be a platform on which researchers will be able to communicate and discuss both their specialized issues and interdisciplinary problems of systems analysis and its applications in science and industry, including data science, artificial intelligence, material science, manufacturing, transportation, power and energy, ecology, corporate management, public governance, finance, and many others.