Title
A monolithic time of arrival detector for acoustic signals
Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
1-1-2002
Abstract
This paper describes the design and implementation of a time of arrival detector for long-range underwater acoustic signals. The intended application of this device is a tag for acoustically tracking aquatic animals, but it is suited for computing general low-frequency signal arrival times in an underwater environment. This device is optimized for low SNR as well as Doppler insensitivity. The two main components of the detector are an analog multi-rate filter, and a digital correlator. The analog filtering is realized by three second order switched-capacitor filter stages. The digital correlation consists of 2048 bits of static RAM (SRAM): 1024 bits to store the expected pattern and 1024 as a virtual shift register. Due to the nature of the intended application, power consumption must be kept to a minimum. Two prototype dies have been fabricated by a 0.5μm double-poly CMOS process. The filters were shown to operate at under 1.5μA per stage and the SRAM to operate correctly.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems
Volume
1
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Obara, Michael, Godi Fischer, and Sangmok Lee. "A monolithic time of arrival detector for acoustic signals." Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems 1, (2002): I44-I47. doi: 10.1109/MWSCAS.2002.1187149.