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Configurable Multirate Filter Banks

Ali Al-Haj

Abstract

Multimedia communications require efficient and real-time implementations of multirate digital signal processing systems. The backbone structures of multirate systems are digital multirate filter banks. Therefore, efficient multimedia communications rely, in the first place, on real-time implementations of multirate filter banks. In this paper, we describe a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) implementation of the analysis and synthesis filter banks which are the fundamental components of multirate systems. The implementation utilizes the parallel form of the distributed arithmetic technique which enables maximum exploitation of the parallelism inherent in the multirate filtering operation. Performance results demonstrate the effectiveness of the implementation and suggest that the FPGA platform is indeed attractive for implementing multirate filter banks.

American Journal of Applied Sciences
Volume 5 No. 7, 2008, 788-797

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajassp.2008.788.797

Submitted On: 8 October 2007 Published On: 31 July 2008

How to Cite: Al-Haj, A. (2008). Configurable Multirate Filter Banks. American Journal of Applied Sciences, 5(7), 788-797. https://doi.org/10.3844/ajassp.2008.788.797

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Keywords

  • Multirate Filter Banks
  • Filed Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)
  • xilinx virtex devices
  • parallel distributed arithmetic
  • efficient parallel implementation