Data processing: speech signal processing – linguistics – language – Speech signal processing – Application
Patent
1996-05-03
1998-12-01
Hudspeth, David R.
Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language
Speech signal processing
Application
704778, G10L 900
Patent
active
058452494
ABSTRACT:
A reusable hardware layout ("core") for performing some, but not all, MPEG and AC-3 audio decoding functions. Specifically, the audio core performs matrixing and windowing operations of MPEG and AC-3 decoding. The disclosed audio core design includes a data path, a control logic unit, an input RAM interface (for controlling an input RAM), an output RAM interface (for controlling an output RAM), a ROM, a ROM addressing logic unit, and a registers interface. The input RAM and the output RAM are located outside of the audio core. The control logic unit specifies in which state of multiple states the audio core currently resides, with each of the multiple states specifying one function or group of functions of either the MPEG or AC-3 decoding process. The control logic unit includes an MPEG state machine for generating MPEG state and cycle count information and an AC-3 state machine for generating AC-3 state and cycle count information. This information is employed by the RAM and ROM addressing logic to specify appropriate addresses for reading and writing data.
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Kolluru Mahadev S.
Malladi Srinivasa R.
Hudspeth David R.
LSI Logic Corporation
Wieland Susan
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