I’m a practicing DSP engineer now! :)
As I wrote in my last post, my MS thesis is finished! 
and that means that I am ready to join the industry and work as a DSP engineer. I am now a Firmware Engineer at the Advanced Engineering Department of Emerson Network Power. I am excited and very keen to find out the projects that I’ll soon be working on – suffice to say these projects involve DSPs and power supplies. Im not very good with power supplies but i am learning 
with regards to the DSP aspect, there are still loads to learn and I am ready!
Thesis Defense is here! :)
The Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering
is pleased to announce the
Oral Defense of the Master’s Thesis of
Ms. Amadea Paula Q. Unisa
Entitled: “Real-time Implementation of Low Bit Rate Wideband Speech Coders on ADSP-21065L”
for the degree of MS in Electrical Engineering
Date: October 14, 2008
Time: 4 pm
Venue: PLDT Multimedia Lecture Hall
Panel Members:
Thesis Adviser: Rowena Cristina L. Guevara, Ph.D.
Chairman: Joel Joseph S. Marciano, Jr., Ph.D.
Members: Luis G. Sison, Ph.D.
Franz A. de Leon, MS EE
Emerson C. Tan, MS EE
This defense is open to the public.
ABSTRACT
In this thesis, real-time Wideband Sinusoidal (WS) and Wideband Linear Prediction (WLP) speech coders were implemented using the ADSP-21065L EZ-Kit LiteTM Evaluation Board. These speech coders are based on the parametric speech models which are extensions of existing sinusoidal and LP models for narrowband speech. The parameters extracted from the input speech are quantized using vector and scalar quantization methods.
A real-time implementation was achieved by programming all the subroutines of the speech coders in assembly language. The average complexities of the WS analysis and synthesis blocks are 1.803 MIPS and 2.95 MIPS. The WS speech coder requires 0.785 kwords of program memory and 5.446 kwords of data memory. For the WLP speech coder, the analysis and synthesis blocks obtained average cycle counts of 28.179 MIPS and 11.249 MIPS. The WLP speech coder occupies 5.98 kwords of program memory and 9.355 kwords of data memory.
Two WS configurations and all of the WLP configurations achieved Mean Opinion Score (MOS) of greater than 3, indicating that the synthesized speech has noticeable but acceptable impairments. All the WS and WLP configurations achieve Diagnotic Rhyme Test (DRT) scores of greater than 80, thus the listener could discriminate between the rhyming pairs of consonant-vowel-consonant (C-V-C) words.
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Hope to see you there
- dae
Photoshoot Aug. 25, 2008
had a photoshoot this 25th of august and it was lots of fun my thanks goes to the photographers who still decided to go through the shoot even if i was the only ‘model’ who made it: thet, marc, buddy, tintin, vic, eric and milton; to the hairstylist who i have worked with in my first-ever photoshoot krissy; and to the makeup artist who works magic (hehe!) kaye
the multiply sites of the photographers/makeup artist/hairstylist are:
marc and thet: http://marcdrizrosales.multiply.com
buddy and tin: http://buddyilao.multiply.com/
http://tintoot.multiply.com
http://bugnotandkulot.tintoot.com
vic: http://pogita77.multiply.com/
eric: (to follow)
milton: http://miltonching.multiply.com/
krissy: http://krissymira.multiply.com
kaye: (to follow)
looking forward to having more photos to be added to my collection
here’s my favorite pic (more in amadeapaula.multiply.com)
My DSP Family :)
Had our DSPiktyuran moment (4pm, July 9, 2008). So who are in this photo:
1st row (L-R): Dae (that’s me!), Bogs, Leslie, Ma’am Gev, Sir Franz, Paulo, Elaine, Liz, Fed, Mike, Lito, and Noel
2nd row (L-R): Ted, Keone, Kel, Joseph, Manu, and Oliver
Here’s another one of me with my very lovely Vicky 
I dont really work like this.. Just for the photo shoot
And by the way, the big black box in the background is our own “whisper room” Very interesting – you can scream and scream inside the room, but to the people outside the room, your voice seems like a whisper…
So yes, that’s our lab and the bright people who are part of it
Dae