In Car Audio

This chapter presents implementations of advanced in Car Audio Applications. The system is composed by three main different applications regarding the In Car listening and communication experience. Starting from a high level description of the algorithms, several implementations on different levels of hardware abstraction are presented, along with empirical results on both the design process undergone and the performance results achieved

The hArtes Tool Chain

This chapter describes the different design steps needed to go from legacy code to a transformed application that can be efficiently mapped on the hArtes platform

The hArtes CarLab: A New Approach to Advanced Algorithms Development for Automotive Audio

In the last decade automotive audio has been gaining great attention by the scientific and industrial communities. In this context, a new approach to test and develop advanced audio algorithms for a heterogeneous embedded platform has been proposed within the European hArtes project. A real audio laboratory installed in a real car (hArtes CarLab) has been developed employing professional audio equipment. The algorithms can be tested and validated on a PC exploiting each application as a plug-in of a real time framework. Then a set of tools (hArtes Toolchain) can be used to generate code for the embedded platform starting from plug-in implementation. An overview of the entire system is here presented, showing its effectiveness