Area and Energy Efficient Method Using AI for Noise Cancellation in Ear Phones

Adaptive filters are suitable for most of the Digital Signal Processing (DSP) applications such as channel equalization, noise cancellation, echo cancellation, channel estimation and system identification. Nowadays due to the advancement in semiconductor technology, the need for Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) headphones in compact devices is increased. The major idea behind this proposed work is to design an area and energy efficient novel adaptive filter suitable for in-ear headphones by combining Normalized Least Mean Square (NLMS) and Block LMS (BLMS). The proposed filter is designed and simulated using Xilinx ISE 13.2. The simulation results shows that the proposed design mitigates the unwanted noises in various frequency bands.