The Center for High Speed Information Processing, focuses on miniaturizing digital devices by using faster algorithms (multiplier free technology), which allows the manufacturing of smaller, faster and cheaper chips.

Echo cancellation technology is the first application. It eliminates the echo that is created on a speaker phone or cell phone when two people talk at the same time. Two patents for this technology have been issued. This same technology can also make it possible for a person with hearing aids to hear someone (s)he is talking to when there is background noise. For hearing impaired people, this is revolutionary. With current hearing aids, when there is background noise, voices are canceled out, producing empty static.

Another area is building encoders and decoders for error correction that are compliant with emerging standards for low density parity check codes.  This technology is in a commercialization phase.

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Highlights

• First spin out company, SP Communications was formed. 
• Smaller, faster, cheaper chips are being developed by this center.
• A large Utah based company currently has licensing with the University for the technology connected to hearing-aid feedback

Spin Out Companies

• SP Communications

Benefiting Companies

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