Research Article

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

Table 6

Timing analysis without any optimization of the design under evaluation. The values are expressed in s.

ParameterDefinitionValues [s]

Initiation interval of the CIC filter 4.5
Initiation interval of the removed DC block 9
Initiation interval of the FIR filter 72
Initiation interval of the delay memories 480
Initiation interval of the cascaded sums 3.5
Initiation interval of the power calculation 1

Initiation interval of the filter stage 85.5
Initiation interval of the beamforming stage 484.5
Initiation interval of the power stage 1

Sum of all initiation intervals 571
Sensing time 2048

Execution time of one orientation 2650
Time required to obtain a polar power map 169600