A Low-Power DSP Core Architecture for Low Bitrate Speech Codec

Hiroyuki OKUHATA  Morgan H. MIKI  Takao ONOYE  Isao SHIRAKAWA  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E81-A   No.8   pp.1616-1621
Publication Date: 1998/08/25
Online ISSN: 
DOI: 
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Digital Signal Processing)
Category: 
Keyword: 
G. 723. 1,  VLSI,  DSP,  low-power,  speech codec,  

Full Text: PDF>>
Buy this Article



Summary: 
A VLSI implementation of a low-power DSP core is described, which is dedicated to the G. 723. 1 low bitrate speech codec. A number of sophisticated DSP microarchitectures are devised mainly on dual multiply accumulators, rounding and saturation mechanisms, and two-banked on-chip memory. The main attempt is focused on lowering the clock frequency, and therefore on reducing the total power consumption, at the cost of a fairly small increase of chip area. The proposed DSP architecture has been integrated in the total area of 7. 75 mm2 by using a 0. 35 µm CMOS technology, which can operate at 10 MHz with the dissipation of 44. 9 mW from a single 3 V supply.