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Fully Differential Difference Amplifier based Microphone Interface Circuit and an Adaptive Signal to Noise Ratio Analog Front end for Dual Channel Digital Hearing Aids

abstract: A dual-channel directional digital hearing aid (DHA) front-end using a fully differential difference amplifier (FDDA) based Microphone interface circuit (MIC) for a capacitive Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) microphones and an adaptive-power analog font end (AFE) is presented. The Microphone interface circuit based on FDDA converts the capacitance variations into voltage signal, achieves a noise of 32 dB SPL (sound pressure level) and an SNR of 72 dB, additionally it also performs single to differential conversion allowing for fully differential analog signal chain. The analog front-end consists of 40dB VGA and a power scalable continuous time sigma delta ADC, with 68dB SNR dissipating 67u¬W from a 1.2V supply. The ADC implements a self calibrating feedback DAC, for calibrating the 2nd order non-linearity. The VGA and power scalable ADC is fabricated on 0.25 um CMOS TSMC process. The dual channels of the DHA are precisely matched and achieve about 0.5dB gain mismatch, resulting in greater than 5dB directivity index. This will enable a highly integrated and low power DHA / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Electrical Engineering 2011

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:9325
Date January 2011
ContributorsNaqvi, Syed Roomi (Author), Kiaei, Sayfe (Advisor), Bakkaloglu, Bertan (Committee member), Chae, Junseok (Committee member), Barnby, Hugh (Committee member), Aberle, James (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher)
Source SetsArizona State University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeDoctoral Dissertation
Format97 pages
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