A 16-channel analog VLSI processor for bionic ears and speech-recognition front ends

Proceedings of the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 521-526

  Baker, Michael W ^a   Lu, Timothy K T ^a   Salthouse, Christopher D ^a   Sit, Ji Jon ^a   Zhak, Serhii ^a   Sarpeshkar, Rahul ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; BANDPASS FILTERS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROPHONES; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ANALOG PROCESSOR; AUDIO FREQUENCY SPECTRUM; BIONIC EARS; ENVELOPE DETECTOR; POWER CONSUMPTION;

VLSI CIRCUITS;

EID: 0242443658     PISSN: 08865930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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