Challenges and Best Practices for Microphone End-of-Line Testing

Schmidle G, Beach M, MacMillan B. Challenges and Best Practices for Microphone End-of-Line Testing. In: AES Convention 145. Audio Engineering Society; 2018. Paper 10096. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19822

@inproceedings{Schmidle2018_19822,
  author = {Schmidle, Gregor and Beach, Mark and MacMillan, Brian},
  title = {{Challenges and Best Practices for Microphone End-of-Line Testing}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 145},
  note = {Paper 10096},
  year = {2018},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19822}
}

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AB  - Due to the increasing use of microphones in many applications such as automotive or artificial intelligence, the demand for fast and reliable microphone test processes is growing. This paper covers various aspects of the design of an end-of-line microphone test system. A prevailing challenge is to properly control the sound source, as loudspeakers have a tendency to vary their performance due to many influences. The acoustic environment for the test must provide reproducible conditions and is ideally anechoic. Noise from outside must be damped across the measurement bandwidth, so that it doesn’t affect the results. Different testing requirements for various types of microphones are shown. Different methods for defining limit criteria are discussed.
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