VLSI Implementation of an Adaptive Noise Canceller

Adaptive Noise cancelling is a speech-specific filtering technique to suppress additive interference. It is a sensible choice for speech-orientated devices in situations where the designer has no knowledge of the properties of interference that could potentially corrupt the input speech to a point beyond intelligibility. A good example of devices subject to such noise is mobile telephones, where the user may be communicating in a variety of environments. However, constraints appear when implementing a noise-cancelling algorithm on such a portable device, and issues of power consumption and silicon area become prominent. This paper discusses an adaptive noise cancelling scheme and presents a VLSI implementation strategy. It then considers some of the benefits of the implementation and its potential area for improvement.