Design and Implementation of

DA based FIR filters for DSP

Vidyaya Amrutham
Applications.
Ashnuthe
Challa Bhavya, Esha S, Gayathri S, Dr. Yasha Jyothi M Shirur,
Department of ECE, B.N.M. Institute of Technology, Bengaluru

Abstract DA Based Implementation of FIR filter

FIR filters are used in many performance/power critical
applications such as mobile communication devices, analogue
to digital converters and digital signal processing applications.
In designing FIR filters, Multiply-Accumulate (MAC) unit is
used. MAC comprises of multiplier, adder and an
accumulator. Faster adder and multiplier circuits are required
for high speed MAC unit. But MAC based structures have
disadvantages like high power dissipation, slow processing
etc. The multiplication operation where input data is to be
multiplied with the fixed coefficients considerably took large
place to store their temporary data. So, memory based
multiplication technique substitute multipliers to reduce area
and latency of system. Distributed Arithmetic (DA) is one of
the memory based technique. In DA based FIR filter
architecture the partial products of the FIR filter coefficients
are pre-calculated and stored in LUTs. The filtering operation Results
is done by shift-accumulation unit.

FIR Filter structure

MAC based FIR Filter

Conclusions & Applications

Distributed Arithmetic architecture
The major highlights of the DA based architecture for
FIR filters are:
The conventional Finite Impulse Response filters use
multipliers, adders and delay elements to produce the required
output.
The multipliers which multiplies input with the fixed content
significantly occupies more place to store their temporary values
and also increases the power consumption .So, these multipliers
are replaced with memory based structures to reduce area and
power.
The above technique holds good only when we go for lower
order filters. For higher order filters, the size of the LUT also
increases exponentially with the order of the filter.
Reduces the area requirement by 27.9% and power requirement
by 12.64%, making it suitable for low power and low area
consumption applications.