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An ASIC implementation of a Dual Channel Acoustic Beamforming for MEMS microphone in 0.18㎛ CMOS technology

0.18㎛ CMOS 공정을 이용한 MEMS 마이크로폰용 이중 채널 음성 빔포밍 ASIC 설계

  • Received : 2018.07.02
  • Accepted : 2018.10.15
  • Published : 2018.10.31
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Abstract

A voice recognition control system is a system for controlling a peripheral device by recognizing a voice. Recently, a voice recognition control system have been applied not only to smart devices but also to various environments ranging from IoT(: Internet of Things), robots, and vehicles. In such a voice recognition control system, the recognition rate is lowered due to the ambient noise in addition to the voice of the user. In this paper, we propose a dual channel acoustic beamforming hardware architecture for MEMS(: Microelectromechanical Systems) microphones to eliminate ambient noise in addition to user's voice. And the proposed hardware architecture is designed as ASIC(: Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) using TowerJazz $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS(: Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor) technology. The designed dual channel acoustic beamforming ASIC has a die size of $48mm^2$, and the directivity index of the user's voice were measured to be 4.233㏈.

음성 인식 제어 시스템은 사용자의 음성을 인식하여 주변 장치를 제어하는 시스템이다. 최근 음성 인식 제어 시스템은 스마트기기 뿐만 아니라, IoT(: Internet of Things), 로봇, 차량에 이르기까지 다양한 환경에 적용되고 있다. 이러한 음성 인식 제어 시스템은 사용자의 음성 외에 주변 잡음에 의한 인식률 저하가 발생한다. 이에 본 논문은 사용자의 음성 외에 주변 잡음을 제거하기 위하여 MEMS(: Microelectromechanical Systems) 마이크로폰용 이중 채널 음성 빔포밍 하드웨어 구조를 제안하였으며, 제안한 하드웨어 구조를 TowerJazz $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS(: Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor) 공정을 이용하여 ASIC(: Application-Specific Integrated Circuit)을 설계하였다. 설계한 이중 채널 음성 빔포밍 ASIC은 $48mm^2$의 Die size를 가지며, 사용자의 음성에 대한 지향성 특성을 측정한 결과 4.233㏈의 특성을 보였다.

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