Cadence Design Contest 2014

Tensilica Project

This project is only for full-time ME/MTech students.
Project Name
Stereo Acoustic Echo Cancellation (SAEC)
Project Outline
The objective of this project is to implement an adaptive Stereo Acoustic Echo Canceller (SAEC). The
model set-up is shown in the figure below.

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SAEC

x1(n), x2(n): Two channels of audio (from far end)
h1(n), h2(n): Room impulse response for speaker-1 to microphone and speaker-2 to microphone
v(n): Noise in the near-end room
1(n), 2(n): Estimated h1(n) and h2(n)
e(n): Residual echo, must be minimized adaptively in SAEC
Additional Information
Some simplifying assumptions are:
o No double-talk, i.e., there is no one talking in the near-end room simultaneously with the
far-end talker
o SAEC to be implemented for a single microphone in the near-end room
Audio characteristics:
o 16kHz sample rate, 16b/sample (each channel)


For the room impulse response, the room impulse response generator at
http://home.tiscali.nl/ehabets/rir_generator/rir_generator.pdf must be used with the following
parameters:
o Mandatory input parameters:
Sound velocity, c: 340 m/s
Sampling frequency, fs: 16000
Receiver xyz co-ordinates, r: variable
Source xyz co-ordinates, s: variable
Room dimensions (x,y,z), L: x and y to be up to 5m, z up to 3m
RT60 reverberation time, beta: 0.4
o Optional input parameters:
Use default for all except for the type of microphone (mtype)
mtype: Can be any of the possible options
There is no constraint on the type of algorithm to be implemented for adaptive AEC
Success Criteria
Evaluation would be based on relative performance. However, any implementation must meet the
following criteria:
o ERLE must be >20dB
o Initial convergence time <1s to achieve 20dB cancellation
o Convergence rate: >20dB/sec
Relative parameters that shall be used to evaluate the projects:
o Code size
o Minimum clock rate required to implement the algorithm
o Performance (over and above the parameters mentioned above)
Prize:
Winning team - Rs. 25,000 (all team member including guide)

Timeline
Call for papers open 20 Jan 2014
Call for papers closed 28 Feb 2014
Submitters informed - first round 4 April 2014
Papers due from submitters - second round 2 May 2014
Submitters informed - second round 13 June 2014
Top teams final live presentation 8 July 2014
Winners announced 10 July 2014

How to Submit
Click on the download link at the end of the page to download the abstract submission form
Download and save the form
All mandatory fields of the abstract submission form must be filled in full; incomplete forms will
not be accepted


Please email your abstract submission form in Word format ONLY (no PDFs) to
designcontest_india@cadence.com

Contest Rules
The university/institute must be enrolled as part of the Cadence University Program at the time of
submitting the abstract for the Contest
Maximum of four students per submission

If your abstract is selected for the second round of this contest, you will be given a temporary tool
license to work on this project. You must sign an agreement to use this temporary license.
For more information about the license, please visit www.tensilica.com/company/university-
program/license-application.

Click here to download the Tensilica abstract submission form

For more information. please contact designcontest_india@cadence.com.