Abstract: | The steady‐state performance of adaptive filters can vary significantly when they are implemented in finite precision arithmetic, which makes it vital to analyse their performance in a quantized environment. Such analyses can become difficult for adaptive algorithms with non‐linear update equations. This paper develops a feedback and energy‐conservation approach to the steady‐state analysis of quantized adaptive algorithms that bypasses some of the difficulties encountered by traditional approaches. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |