VERDI: An acoustically programmable and adjustable CMOS mixed-mode signal processor for hearing aid applications

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 634-644

  Duque Carrillo, J Francisco ^{a,b,e,f,g,h,i}   Malcovati, Piero ^a,c   Maloberti, Franco ^a,c   Pérez Aloe, Raquel ^a,b   Reyes, Alexander H ^d   Sánchez Sinencio, Edgar ^a,d   Torelli, Guido ^a,c   Valverde, José M ^b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^f University of Extremadura ^*

^g Texas AandM University   (United States)

^h AT and T Microelectronics   (Spain)

ⁱ AT and T Microelectronics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; LOW PASS FILTERS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SIGNAL ENCODING; TELEPHONE HEARING AIDS;

ANTIALIASING FILTER; AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL; DUAL TONE MULTI FREQUENCY;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0030149903     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.509846     Document Type: Article

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