SBIR-STTR Award

MEMs Co-located Integrated Microphone/Earphone for Active Noise Reduction
Award last edited on: 3/1/2007

Sponsored Program
SBIR
Awarding Agency
DOD : AF
Total Award Amount
$99,345
Award Phase
1
Solicitation Topic Code
AF05-059
Principal Investigator
Rene Brown

Company Information

Lasair Design

4747 Oceanside Boulevard Suites J & K
Oceanside, CA 92056
   (760) 724-6576
   sales@lasairdesign.com
   www.lasair.net
Location: Single
Congr. District: 49
County: San Diego

Phase I

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Phase I year
2005
Phase I Amount
$99,345
An innovative approach for a hearing aid with active noise cancellation. A microphone that performs frequency spectrum analyzation during acoustic signal detection is proposed. The device would be low cost to manufacture and able to be integrated with a low power actuator on a similar substrate. The system is proposed with colocated driver and CMOS processing electronics. The sensing of the signal would be insensitive to amplifier variations by using a fast sampling amplifier operating in a sigma delta mode. An adaptive filter is proposed for the active noise cancellation. The sensing of all the frequencies would be performed by a single ratiometric source multiplexing the input to create a time multiplex input of the data to the signal processor.

Keywords:
Active Noise Cancellation, Piezo Electric Actuators, Cantilever Beam Resonators, Digital Signal Processing, Capactive Diaphragm Sensors, Charge Balancing Sensing, Mems, Wirele

Phase II

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Phase II Amount
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