Efficient digital audio automatic gain control

Details Efficient digital audio automatic gain control Efficient digital audio automatic gain control

2008-07-29

2008-07-29

Grier, Laura A. (Department: 2615)

Electrical audio signal processing systems and devices

Including amplitude or volume control

Automatic

C381S104000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07406178

ABSTRACT:
The present invention is a digital dynamic compression or automatic gain control (AGC) (10) adapted for use in high quality audio and hearing aids applications. An efficient digital AGC design employs two compact ROM-based tables (ROM_CSD, ROM_SPL) in addition to two comparators (COMP_A, COMP_B) and several registers (REG_A, REG_B, ADDR_A, ADDR_B). While one ROM stores the values of discrete input signal levels, the other contains gain codes based on a canonical signed digit (CSD) coding approach that leads to a very simple gain multiplier (20). In many cases an extremely compact table for gain values can be achieved by reusing a single small-size ROM that behaves like one that is several time larger. Two design examples are shown to expound the insights of the new digital AGC design. For the less-than-half-dB-gain-step cases only two adders are required for the multiplier whereas just three adders are needed in the situations with less than quarter-dB gain steps.

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