Field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based digital signal processing has been widely used in multimedia applications. By combining distributed arithmetic (DA) and residue number system (RNS) in such designs, efficient area, speed and power efficiency can be achieved. In this paper, we propose novel techniques for the design and FPGA implementation of DA-RNS finite impulse response (FIR) filters. By introducing a novel low-cost moduli set and its selection method, efficient modulo arithmetic units inside the subfilters are designed. Then, a new residue-to-binary conversion algorithm, a so-called modified DA Chinese remainder theorem, is derived to reduce the modulo operations and provide an efficient residue-to-binary converter suitable to FPGA implementation. Based on these proposed techniques, a seventh-order DA-RNS FIR filter is designed, implemented and tested by using Xilinx FPGA tools. The implementation results show that the proposed filter design consumes only 77% of the power that the existing filter12,13 requires, while maintaining the same speed (throughput).
Power Efficiency and EMI Attenuation Optimization in Filter Design
