FPGA implementation of high-performance,resource-efficient Radix-16 CORDIC rotator based FFT algorithm

The fast Fourier transform (FFT) is an algorithm widely used to compute the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) in real-time digital signal processing. High-performance with fewer resources is highly desirable for any real-time application. Our proposed work presents the implementation of the radix-2 decimation-in-frequency (R2DIF) FFT algorithm based on the modified feed-forward double-path delay commutator (DDC) architecture on FPGA device. Need for a complex multiplier to carry out the multiplication of complex twiddle factors and large memory to store the twiddle factors are the main concerns for FFT implementation. Propose work aims to address these issues. In this work, a high-performance radix-16 COordinate Rotational DIgital Computer (CORDIC) algorithm based rotator is proposed to carry out the complex twiddle factor multiplication. Further, CORDIC needs only rotational angles to carry out complex multiplication, which reduces the need for large memory to store the twiddle factors. To compute the total rotation for n-bit precision, our proposed radix-16 CORDIC algorithm takes n/4 iteration as compared to n iteration of the radix-2 CORDIC algorithm. Our proposed architecture of the radix-2 decimation-in-frequency (R2DIF) algorithm is implemented on a Virtex−7 series FPGA. Further, the detailed comparison is presented between our proposed FFT implementation and other recently proposed FFT implementations. Experimental results suggest that proposed implementation has less latency and hardware utilization as compared to recently proposed implementations.     

Numerical Accuracy of Fast Fourier Transforms with CORDIC Arithmetic

The vector rotation operation in the butterfly of a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) can be calculated by a complex multiplier as well as a CORDIC (COordinate Rotation DIgital Computer). For these vector rotation blocks, expressions for the maximum numerical error are derived. It is shown that the error introduced by the CORDIC can be reduced by increasing the size of the input vector of the CORDIC and decreasing the size of the output vector by the same amount. This input vector scaling makes the reduction possible of the number of bits in the data path of the CORDIC. The impact on the Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) of the FFT is evaluated when a CORDIC is applied in the FFT butterfly.     

Balanced Binary-Tree Decomposition for Area-Efficient Pipelined FFT Processing

This paper presents an area-efficient algorithm for the pipelined processing of fast Fourier transform (FFT). The proposed algorithm is to decompose a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) into two balanced sub-DFTs in order to minimize the total number of twiddle factors to be stored into tables. The radix in the proposed decomposition is adaptively changed according to the remaining transform length to make the transform lengths of sub-DFTs resulting from the decomposition as close as possible. An 8192-point pipelined FFT processor designed for digital video broadcasting-terrestrial (DVB-T) systems saves 33% of general multipliers and 23% of the total size of twiddle factor tables compared to a conventional pipelined FFT processor based on the radix-2² algorithm. In addition to the decomposition, several implementation techniques are proposed to reduce area, such as a simple index generator of twiddle factor and add/subtract units combined with the two's complement operation     

Dynamic Partial Reconfigurable FFT for OFDM Based Communication Systems

This paper presents a novel scalable and runtime dynamically reconfigurable FFT architecture for different wireless standards. With only 8 butterfly units, a reconfigurable FFT architecture for three different FFT points is realized using mixed radix-2²/2³/2⁴ FFT algorithm in a modified Single-path Delay Feedback (SDF) pipelined architecture. Via a proper data flow reconfiguration it can support 64, 128 and 256. It can even be extended up to 8192-point transforms and uses only 13 butterfly units to realize 8192 points. This paper describes the implementation method of 256 and 128 point FFT, which is reconfigured partially from 64 point FFT. The whole system is implemented on a Xilinx XC2VP30 FPGA device. The implementation design addresses area efficiency and flexibility allowing the insertion of the partial modules dynamically to realize various FFT sizes. To verify the efficacy of this dynamic partial reconfigurable FFT design method, a conventional multiplexer based reconfigurable architecture was designed and tested on the same platform. Tested FPGA results for the Dynamic Partial Reconfigurable (DPR) method show the configuration time improvement and good area efficiency as compared to the reconfigurable architecture using conventional multiplexer techniques.     

Mixed-radix,virtually scaling-free CORDIC algorithm based rotator for DSP applications

In this work, we proposed a novel Coordinate Rotation DIgital Computer (CORDIC) rotator algorithm that converges faster by performing radix-2,4 and 16 CORDIC iterations while maintaining the scale factor implicitly constant. A mixed-radix is used to achieve convergence faster to reduce the computational latency of the CORDIC algorithm. The main concern of the higher radix CORDIC algorithm is the compensation of a variable scale factor. To solve this problem, the Taylor series approximation of sine and cosine is proposed for a higher radix CORDIC algorithm to achieve the scaling-free rotation of the two-dimensional vector. The scaling-free rotation of the proposed CORDIC algorithm removes the read-only memory (ROM) needed to store scale factor of higher radix CORDIC algorithm. Further, the proposed CORDIC algorithm is designed in rotation mode and optimized by removing the Z datapath for the digital signal processing (DSP) applications for which the angle of rotation is known in advance. Finally, the multipath delay commutator (MDC) fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm is implemented with the proposed CORDIC algorithm based rotator on FPGA. The proposed design is compared with existing designs. In a comparison between the radix-16 CORDIC rotator based FFT implementation and our proposed implementation, it has been found out that implementation proposed in this article has used 17% fewer resources.     

基于改进CORDIC算法的数字预失真实现

针对传统CRODIC算法存在的角度扩展、迭代复杂度等问题,在旋转模式下提出一种改进型CORDIC算法。对于旋转角度范围的扩展,采取将向量限制在第一和第四象限,旋转最后再根据输入向量符号判断旋转角度值;对于迭代复杂度,采用跳跃旋转方式来减少迭代次数。最后在Quartus软件上实现了该改进算法,并且将改进后的CORDIC算法应用于数字预失真技术,在FPGA上设计实现。仿真与实验结果表明:与传统的CORDIC算法相比,改进算法减少了硬件的开销,运算速度和精度都有很大改进,能够快速提取预失真参数,显著提高功率放大器的线性度。     

一款基于MVR-CORDIC的高速64点基-4FFT处理器

文中设计了一款64点基-4FFT处理器,用改进的CORDIC （MVR-CORDIC）处理单元代替常规FFT处理器中的复数乘法器,改进的CORDIC处理单元在保证SQNR性能下,仅用极少次数的移位加法运算即可完成一次复数乘法,缩减了完成一次基本蝶形运算的时间并减小了面积开销。该FFT处理器结构采用两块独立的RAM,并对中间数据作“乒-乓”式存储操作以节省数据存储时间,从而提高完成一次FFT运算的速度。所设计的FFT处理器通过FPGA进行验证,结果表明平均完成一次64点FFT运算仅需要不到1μs。     

高速64点FFT芯片设计技术

针对高速64点FFT(快速傅里叶变换)处理芯片的实现,分析了FFT运算原理,并根据FFT算法原理介绍了改进的FFT运算流图。介绍了FFT处理器系统的各模块的功能划分,并根据FFT处理器结构及其特殊寻址方式,采用Verilog HDL对处理器系统的控制器、双数据缓存、地址生成器、蝶形运算单元以及I/O控制等模块进行了RTL(寄存器传输级)设计,并在ModelSim中对各模块以及整个系统进行功能仿真和验证,给出了部分关键模块的仿真波形图。设计中,注重从硬件实现以及电路的可综合性等角度进行RTL电路设计,以确保得到与期望性能相符的硬件电路。     

免缩放因子双步旋转CORDIC算法

集成电路设计中经常使用CORDIC算法实现高效的向量旋转操作.当前对该算法的研究热点集中在减少该算法的迭代次数、扩展其收敛范围以及降低缩放因子补偿操作的代价等问题上.本文提出免缩放因子的双步旋转CORDIC算法使用双步旋转策略,减少了免缩放因子CORDIC算法的迭代次数,将收敛区间扩展到了整个圆周区间.实验结果表明,该算法保持高计算精度的同时减少了迭代次数和面积消耗.     

A self-testing 2-/spl mu/m CMOS chip set for FFT applications

A chip set for high-speed radix-2 fast Fourier transform (FFT) applications up to 512 points is described. The chip set comprises a (16+16)/spl times/(12+12)-bit complex number multiplier, and a 16-bit butterfly chip for data reordering, twiddle factor generation, and butterfly arithmetic. The chips have been implemented using a standard cell design methodology on a 2-/spl mu/m bulk CMOS process. Three chips implement a complex FFT butterfly with a throughput of 10 MHz, and are cascadable up to 512 points. The chips feature an offline self-testing capability.     

基于反馈控制结构的FFT信号处理器设计与FPGA实现

研究了基于FPGA的基-2 FFT算法的设计与实现。为减小硬件资源开销,论文采用蝶形运算单元和控制器单元构成的反馈结构对基-2 FFT处理器的硬件j结构进行了总体设计,采用时序控制方法完成蝶形运算电路设计,采用同步有限状态机(FSM,finite state machine)方法实现了旋转因子系数的产生与控制。并基于Quartus II软件平台,完成了整个FFT处理器电路的FPGA实现,最后通过仿真验证了设计方案的正确性。     

A CORDIC processor for FFT computation and its implementation usinggallium arsenide technology

In this paper, the architecture and the implementation of a complex fast Fourier transform (CFFT) processor using 0.6 μm gallium arsenide (GaAs) technology are presented. This processor computes a 1024-point FFT of 16 bit complex data in less than 8 μs, working at a frequency beyond 700 MHz, with a power consumption of 12.5 W. The architecture of the processor is based on the COordinate Rotation DIgital Computer (CORDIC) algorithm, which avoids the use of conventional multiplication-and-accumulation (MAC) units, but evaluates the trigonometric functions using only add and shift operations, Improvements to the basic CORDIC architecture are introduced in order to reduce the area and power of the processor. This together with the use of pipelining and carry save adders produces a very regular and fast processor, The CORDIC units were fabricated and tested in order to anticipate the final performance of the processor. This work also demonstrates the maturity of GaAs technology for implementing ultrahigh-performance signal processors     

基于CORDIC算法的流水线型FFT处理器设计

首先分析了基二FFT算法的原理以及在FPGA上实现FFT处理器的硬件结构。其次详细研究了在FPGA上实现FFT的具体过程,利用CORDIC算法实现了旋转因子乘法器,解决了整体设计过程中主要面对的几个关键问题,最终利用Verilog编程实现了基二流水线型FFT处理器,利用MATLAB与MODELSIM结合仿真结果表明该设计满足FFT处理器的基本要求,在10 MHz的采样率下完成32点FFT只需要14.45μs,设计方法也简单易行,具有一定的推广价值。     

高速高精度固定角度旋转CORDIC算法的设计与实现

固定角度旋转的CORDIC(Coordinate Rotation Digital Computer)算法已经广泛的应用于高速数字信号处理、图像处理、机器人学等领域.针对固定角度旋转CORDIC算法在相位旋转过程中,存在数据吞吐率较高、占用硬件资源较多且资源消耗量大等缺点,提出了利用混合CORDIC算法,将角度旋转分为单向角度旋转和一次角度估计旋转两部分.本文根据欠阻尼理论,将固定角度旋转采用单向旋转CORDIC算法实现,减少了流水线的级数和迭代符号位的判决,然后通过对角度估计旋转的二进制表示,修正常数因子,再根据角度映射关系进行相关处理,完成高速高精度坐标旋转.最后在硬件平台上进行了仿真实验.实验结果表明,在误差范围一定的前提下,混合算法进一步的减少了迭代次数,并且资源消耗较低,提高了数据吞吐率.     

Scalable FFT Processors and Pipelined Butterfly Units

This paper considers partial-column radix-2 FFT processors and realizations of butterfly operations. The area and power-efficiency of butterfly units to be used in the proposed processor organization based on bit-parallel multipliers, distributed arithmetic, and CORDIC are analyzed and compared. All the selected butterfly units are synthesized onto the same 0.11 μ ASIC technology allowing the results to be compared. The proposed processor organization permits the area of the FFT implementation to be traded against the computation time, thus the final structure can be easily tailored according to the requirements of the given application. The power consumption comparison shows that butterflies based on bit-parallel multipliers are power-efficient but have limitations on clock frequency. Butterflies based on distributed arithmetic could be used when higher clock frequencies are used. If extremely long FFTs are needed, the CORDIC based butterflies are applicable. Jarmo Takala received his M.Sc. (hons) degree in Electronics and Dr.Tech. degree in Information Technology from Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland (TUT) in 1987 and 1999, respectively. From 1992 to 1996, he was a Research Scientist at VTT-Automation, Tampere, Finland. Between 1995 and 1996, he was a Senior Research Engineer at Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland. From 1996 to 1999, he was a Researcher at TUT. Currently, he is Professor in Computer Engineering at TUT and head of the Insitute of Digital and Computer Systems of TUT. His research interests include circuit techniques, parallel architectures, and design methodologies for digital signal processing systems. Konsta Punkka received his M.Sc. degree (hons) in Electrical Engineering from Tampere University of Technology (TUT), in 2002. He is currently working towards his Dr.Tech. degree as a research scientist in the Institute of Digital and Computer Systems at TUT. His research interests include optimization and implementation of DSP architectures.     

一种新的1024点基-2 FFT旋转因子产生电路的结构

设计了一个新的无存储器的基-2 1024点FFT旋转因子产生电路.这个旋转因子产生电路用若干逻辑模块来产生数据,然后用这些数据合成所需要的旋转因子.用Synopsys Power Compiler进行功耗分析表明,用TSMC 0.25μm CMOS工艺综合出来的电路在50MHz时的功耗为2mW.这种旋转因子产生电路非常适合用于低功耗的设计中,尤其是移动通信和其他手持设备中.     

基于CORDIC算法并行FFT设计与硬件实现

讨论了复杂128点FFT处理器的并行和旋转结构。VLSI实现FFT适用于超高速数据处理。随着新的VLSI技术的发展，高速处理和低功耗设计成为现实。使用CORDIC旋转处理器可以优化面积和速度的设计，在不降低数据处理速度的基础上，这种FFT仅仅使用了5．3万等效逻辑门。     

基于改进混合式CORDIC算法的 直接数字频率合成器设计

 提出一种新的面积优化的直接数字频率合成器设计方案.采用改进混合式CORDIC算法,通过削减旋转相位判断电路和乘法单元,改进和调整相位旋转误差,并利用简单的移位和加/减电路完成复杂的幅度修正,降低了电路复杂度,缩减了电路规模.结构上采用流水线式多级循环迭代技术,实现移位和加/减电路的高度复用.实验结果表明本方法输出频谱杂散小于-70dB,并在运算速度和资源利用率上具有一定的优势.该设计已成功用于宽带网络SoC芯片的频率调制模块.     

改进型高速高精度CORDIC算法及其在DDFS中的应用

提出了一种新的选择迭代式高速高精度CORDIC（COrdinate Rotation Digital Computer）算法.基于表驱动法缩小目标旋转角度,通过改进的基本角度选择方法旁路不必要的迭代;并以移位和减法实现幅度校正,减小硬件资源消耗.设定角度误差小于10^-5rad时,迭代次数减小至7次以下.在DDFS（Direct Digital Frequency Synthesizer）的应用中,利用区间压缩技术在Xilinx的FPGA中实现20位定点小数电路设计.仿真及实测结果表明,该算法幅度误差小于2×10^-5,输出延时不大于43.5ns,同时硬件资源消耗不增加.     

WIMAX系统中可配置FFT/IFFT的设计与实现

针对WIMAX系统中变长子载波的特点,通过采用流水线乒乓结构,以基2、基4混合基实现了高速可配置的FFT/IFFT。将不同点数的FFT旋转因子统一存储,同时对RAM单元进行优化,节约了存储空间;此外对基4蝶形单元进行优化,减少了加法和乘法运算单元。仿真和综合结果表明,设计满足了WIMAX高速系统中不同带宽下FFT/IFFT的要求。