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Application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for performing rapid speech compression in a mobile telephone system

US5784532A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateFeb 16, 1994
Grant dateJul 21, 1998
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Expiry dateFeb 16, 2014

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG10L2019/0013
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method and apparatus for implementing a vocoder in a application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) is provided. The apparatus contains a DSP core that performs computations in accordance with a reduced instruction set (RISC) architecture. The circuit further includes a specifically designed slave processor to the DSP core referred to as the minimization processor. The apparatus further comprises a specifically designed block normalization circuitry.

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