In Car Audio

In the last decade automotive audio has been gaining great attention by the scientific and industrial communities. In this context, a new approach to test and develop advanced audio algorithms for an heterogeneous embedded platform has been proposed within the European hArtes project. A real audio laboratory installed in a real car (hArtes CarLab) has been developed employing professional audio equipment. The algorithms can be tested and validated on a PC exploiting each application as a plug-in of the real time NU-Tech framework. Then a set of tools (hArtes Toolchain) can be used to generate code for the embedded platform starting from the plug-in implementation. An overview of the whole system is here presented, taking into consideration a complete set of audio algorithms developed for the advanced car infotainment system (ACIS) that is composed of three main different applications regarding the In Car listening and communication experience. Starting from a high level description of the algorithms, several implementations on different levels of hardware abstraction are presented, along with empirical results on both the design process undergone and the performance results achieved.

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