A BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED HARDWARE MODULE FOR EMBEDDED AUDITORY SIGNAL PROCESSING APPLICATIONS

Xin Yang, Mokhtar Nibouche, Tony Pipe, Chris Melhuish

2009

Abstract

This paper presents a fully parameterised and highly scalable design prototype of FPGA (field programmable gate array) implementation of a biologically inspired auditory signal processing system. The system has been captured and simulated using system-level integrated design tools, namely, System GeneratorTM and AccelDSPTM both from XilinxTM . The implemented hardware auditory periphery model consists of two sub-models—the Patterson’s Gammatone filter bank and the Meddis’ inner hair cell. The prototype has been successfully ported onto a VirtexTM –II Pro FPGA. Ultimately, it can be used as a front-end apparatus in a variety of embedded auditory signal processing applications.

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Yang X., Nibouche M., Pipe T. and Melhuish C. (2009). A BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED HARDWARE MODULE FOR EMBEDDED AUDITORY SIGNAL PROCESSING APPLICATIONS . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-65-4, pages 382-387. DOI: 10.5220/0001554703820387


in Bibtex Style

@conference{biosignals09,
author={Xin Yang and Mokhtar Nibouche and Tony Pipe and Chris Melhuish},
title={A BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED HARDWARE MODULE FOR EMBEDDED AUDITORY SIGNAL PROCESSING APPLICATIONS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={382-387},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001554703820387},
isbn={978-989-8111-65-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing - Volume 1: BIOSIGNALS, (BIOSTEC 2009)
TI - A BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED HARDWARE MODULE FOR EMBEDDED AUDITORY SIGNAL PROCESSING APPLICATIONS
SN - 978-989-8111-65-4
AU - Yang X.
AU - Nibouche M.
AU - Pipe T.
AU - Melhuish C.
PY - 2009
SP - 382
EP - 387
DO - 10.5220/0001554703820387