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Beam forming is a technique in signal processing that has found widespread applications in fields such as radar, wireless communication, bio-medical ultrasounds and so on. Beam forming consist of an array of antennas whose radiation pattern are adjusted to a particular direction. This paper aims in implementing a two stage design for acoustic beam forming using MATLAB and Verilog HDL. First stage is a delay and sum beam former used to obtain beams from a particular direction while the second stage is an LMS model based on Least Mean Square (LMS) algorithm. This stage improves the efficiency of delay sum by removing the unwanted signals. Different hardware parameters like logic utilization, memory usage, CPU time and delay of this design are analyzed to determine its characteristics as compared to delay sum and LMS. This study found that the two stage model gives better beam forming and noise removal than when the stages are implemented independently.