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W Liu1, A G Andreou, M H Goldstein
1Dept. of Electr. and Comput. Eng., Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD.
Abstract:
An analog CMOS integration of a model for the auditory periphery is presented. The model consists of middle ear, basilar membrane, and hair cell/synapse modules which are derived from neurophysiological studies. The circuit realization of each module is discussed, and experimental data of each module's response to sinusoidal excitation are given. The nonlinear speech processing capabilities of the system are demonstrated using the voiced syllable |ba|. The multichannel output of the silicon model corresponds to the time-varying instantaneous firing rates of auditory nerve fibers that have different characteristic frequencies. These outputs are similar to the physiologically obtained responses. The actual implementation uses subthreshold CMOS technology and analog continuous-time circuits, resulting in a real-time, micropower device with potential applications as a preprocessor of auditory stimuli.
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