Title: Low power reconfigurable sub-band filter bank ASIC for MP3 decoder

Authors: B.P. Gangamamba, P. Muralidhar, N.S. Murthy

Addresses: Electrical and Computers Department, University of Porto, Portugal. ' Electrical and Computers Department, University of Porto, Portugal. ' School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University Malaysia Perlis, Malaysia

Abstract: There is an ever demanding need to develop low power audio devices using MP3 technology. From the profiled results of MP3 algorithm on ARM processors, it has been observed that the synthesis filter bank in the audio decoder consumes maximum power. Hence, to reduce the power consumption of the filter bank, we developed an IEEE 754 single precision floating-point runtime reconfigurable architecture. The proposed architecture consumes less power at run time as the last 12 bits of the mantissa part of the synthesis filter coefficients are zero most of the time and, hence, the corresponding multipliers will be switched off. Since the active multipliers during inverse polyphase quadrature mirror filter banks (IPQMF) are less, we are able to achieve low powered decoding process without significantly compromising on the accuracy and speed. We synthesised and simulated the architecture using 0.35 μm process technology under synopsys environment. A uniform worst case power reduction of 23.7% has been achieved in the frequency range from 1 MHz to 20 MHz when all the multipliers are in active state.

Keywords: low power reconfigurable pipelined architecture; single precision multipliers; synthesis filter banks; MP3 decoder; sub-band filter bank ASIC; audio devices; power consumption; energy consumption.

DOI: 10.1504/IJICT.2009.026438

International Journal of Information and Communication Technology, 2009 Vol.2 No.1/2, pp.156 - 165

Published online: 11 Jun 2009 *

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