Cochlea Lattice Filters

A Pipelined Synthesis of Cochlea DSP Lattice Filters


Louiza Sellami and Robert W. Newcomb



Abstract

A pipelined lattice realization of a digital scattering model of the cochlea is presented, based on real, lossless lattice synthesis of ARMA filters. The structure is recursively designed and each lattice is precisely implemented by a pair of complex conjugate transmission zeros via Richard's function extractions. In addition to being suitable for VLSI realization, the structure leads to a systematic cochlea parameter estimation, owing to the scattering nature of the model.