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Low-Latency SoC Design with High-Level Accelerators Specific to Sound Effects
Abstract
High-quality sound processing requires hardware acceleration in order to reduce the processing latency of the applied effect over the sound. Computational latency of creating enhanced sound from the audio input is an important delay component and affects the performance especially in artists’ live performance or high-quality sound generation. Artists want to apply a sound effect on their music and latency is the main problem when these systems running in real-time. CPU-based systems present flexibility, but introduce a high amount of latency while processing, which in fact affects the artist negatively. In this study, to get the flexibility through software and the acceleration via hardware specialization, we present a system-on-chip (SoC) solution with HW/SW co-design methodology for sound-effects. We reduce the latency and increase the frequency by applying pipelining through MATLAB. The system is implemented and tested on programmable SoC platform, ZedBoard, which contains ZC7020 Zynq chip with a dual-core ARM-Cortex-A9 processor. The ARM processor enables the management of sound-effect hardware accelerator running on FPGA and communication with user. Sound effect is designed with block models provided by MATLAB & Simulink. HDL Coder converts these blocks into RTL-level hardware designs. The followed design methodology provided by MATLAB & Simulink enables high-level block design that can be embedded into FPGA at RTL-level to benefit from the speed provided by high-speed hardware registers and to have an AXI interconnect interfacing with software in order to utilize the software flexibility. The study shows that latency is reduced significantly.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
Engineering
Journal Section
Research Article
Publication Date
December 30, 2021
Submission Date
March 15, 2021
Acceptance Date
November 20, 2021
Published in Issue
Year 2021 Volume: 33
APA
Esen, Y. E., & San, İ. (2021). Low-Latency SoC Design with High-Level Accelerators Specific to Sound Effects. International Journal of Advances in Engineering and Pure Sciences, 33, 78-87. https://doi.org/10.7240/jeps.897556
AMA
1.Esen YE, San İ. Low-Latency SoC Design with High-Level Accelerators Specific to Sound Effects. JEPS. 2021;33:78-87. doi:10.7240/jeps.897556
Chicago
Esen, Yunus Emre, and İsmail San. 2021. “Low-Latency SoC Design With High-Level Accelerators Specific to Sound Effects”. International Journal of Advances in Engineering and Pure Sciences 33 (December): 78-87. https://doi.org/10.7240/jeps.897556.
EndNote
Esen YE, San İ (December 1, 2021) Low-Latency SoC Design with High-Level Accelerators Specific to Sound Effects. International Journal of Advances in Engineering and Pure Sciences 33 78–87.
IEEE
[1]Y. E. Esen and İ. San, “Low-Latency SoC Design with High-Level Accelerators Specific to Sound Effects”, JEPS, vol. 33, pp. 78–87, Dec. 2021, doi: 10.7240/jeps.897556.
ISNAD
Esen, Yunus Emre - San, İsmail. “Low-Latency SoC Design With High-Level Accelerators Specific to Sound Effects”. International Journal of Advances in Engineering and Pure Sciences 33 (December 1, 2021): 78-87. https://doi.org/10.7240/jeps.897556.
JAMA
1.Esen YE, San İ. Low-Latency SoC Design with High-Level Accelerators Specific to Sound Effects. JEPS. 2021;33:78–87.
MLA
Esen, Yunus Emre, and İsmail San. “Low-Latency SoC Design With High-Level Accelerators Specific to Sound Effects”. International Journal of Advances in Engineering and Pure Sciences, vol. 33, Dec. 2021, pp. 78-87, doi:10.7240/jeps.897556.
Vancouver
1.Yunus Emre Esen, İsmail San. Low-Latency SoC Design with High-Level Accelerators Specific to Sound Effects. JEPS. 2021 Dec. 1;33:78-87. doi:10.7240/jeps.897556