DSP implementation of the 3GPP enhanced aacPlus decoder

This paper presents implementation of the 3GPP (the 3rd generation partnership project) enhanced aacPlus decoder on a 16-bit fixed-point DSP. Enhanced aacPlus is a 3GPP standard integrating newly standardized MPEG-4 parametric stereo (PS) into MPEG-4 high efficiency advanced audio coding (HE-AAC). PS enables audio coding at a low bitrate for stereo signals by efficiently representing stereo information. The maximum number of operations for the implemented decoder is 29.3 million cycles per second for a 32 kb/s bitstream. This implementation with stereo decoding capability achieves higher sound quality than mono HE-AAC at the cost of 90% increase in computational complexity. 3GPP mobile terminals for music download and streaming services can be realized by using the implemented decoder.