Research Article

Design Considerations When Accelerating an FPGA-Based Digital Microphone Array for Sound-Source Localization

Table 5

Power consumption at  MHz expressed in mW when combining microphone subarrays. Values obtained from the Vivado 2016.4 power report.

Active MEMS microphones Reported on-chip power Total
Subarrays Active Inactive Total Static Dynamic Total Power

Inner 4 MICs 15.84 0.13 15.97 120 2 122 137.97
Inner 12 MICs 47.52 0.11 47.63 120 5 125 172.63
Inner 28 MICs 110.88 0.06 110.94 121 11 132 242.94
All 52 MICs 205.92 0 205.92 122 16 138 343.92