An energy-efficient analog front-end circuit for a sub-1V digital hearing aid chip

IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Digest of Technical Papers

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 176-179

  Kim, Sunyoung ^a   Lee, Jae Youl ^a   Song, Seong Jun ^a   Cho, Namjun ^a   Yoo, Hoi Jun ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Adaptive snr technique; Analog front end; Combined gain control technique; Digital hearing aid

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; GAIN CONTROL; HEARING AIDS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ADAPTIVE SNR TECHNIQUE; ANALOG FRONT-END; COMBINED-GAIN-CONTROL TECHNIQUE; DIGITAL HEARING AIDS;

DIGITAL CIRCUITS;

EID: 33745147259     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLSIC.2005.1469361     Document Type: Conference Paper

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