Design of a digital hearing aid

Author

Mullins, Keith A.

Author_Institution

4021 S. 262nd St., Kent, WA, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

4-6 Nov 1996

Firstpage

281

Lastpage

284

Abstract

This design project has a lot of future potential and follow on work ahead. As improvements are made in the miniaturization of circuitry, the concept of a programmable digitized hearing aid grows more feasible. The one that was built and tested as a part of this project had several shortcomings that were related to using non-specialized components. To be useful to the consumer, it needs to be repackaged into a smaller, more efficient case. The power consumption needs to be minimized over the current power requirements. This would probably involve designing and building an ASIC that would be specifically tailored for usage in a hearing aid. A user friendly PC based interface program needs to be written to allow easier updates to the hearing profile tables that are stored in non-violative memory

Keywords

hearing aids; medical computing; product development; ASIC; circuitry miniaturization; design project; digital hearing aid design; hearing profile tables; nonspecialized components; nonviolative memory; power consumption minimization; power requirements; user friendly PC based interface program; Acoustic noise; Auditory system; Deafness; Ear; Frequency; Hearing aids; Nerve fibers; Speech coding; Speech enhancement; Working environment noise;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Northcon/96

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3277-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NORTHC.1996.564929

Filename

564929