this paper presents a full duplex, real time implementation of itu-t g.723.1 [7,8] speech coder using the tms320c5402 dsp chip which is based on a 16 bit fixed-point architecture. an optimization method is proposed in order to reduce the total necessary cycle time consumed in real-time implementation. the multi-pulse maximum likelihood quantization (mp-mlq) excitation search block which is the ...