AN APPLICATION OF EVOLUTIONARY PROGRAMMING IN FIR FILTER DESIGN WITH FREQUENCY SAMPLING METHOD

Frequency sampling is one of the popular methods in FIR digital filter design. In the frequency sampling method the value of transition band samples, which are usually obtained by consulting a table, must be determined in order to make the attenuation within the stopband maximal. However, the value obtained by searching for table can not be ensured to be optimal. Evolutionary programming (EP), a multi agent stochastic optimization technique, can lead to global optimal solutions for complex problems. In this paper a new application of EP to frequency sampling method is introduced. Two examples of lowpass and bandpass FIR filters are presented, and the steps of EP realization and experimental results are given. Experimental results show that the value of transition band samples obtained by EP can be ensured to be optimal and the performance of the filter is improved.

基于FPGA的高速FIR滤波器设计

FIR滤波器能够实现线性相位特性,可以做到无相位失真,而广泛应用于现代信号处理领域。运用FPGA可编程的特点,采用分布式算法,实现高速有限脉冲响应(FIR)滤波器,仿真结果和板级测试表明这种方法快速,消耗硬件资源少。

DESIGN OF MAXIMALLY FLAT FIR FILTERS BASED ON EXPLICIT FORMULAS COMBINED WITH OPTIMIZATION

A maximally flat FIR filter design method based on explicit formulas combined with simulated annealing and random search was presented. Utilizing the explicit formulas to calculate the ini- tial values, the firate-word-length FIR filter design problem was converted into optimization of the filter coefficients, An optimization method combined with local discrete random search and simulated annealing was proposed, with the result of optimum solution in the sense of Chebyshev approximation. The proposed method can simplify the design process of FIR filter and reduce the calculation burden. The simulation result indicates that the proposed method is superior to the traditional round off method and can reduce the value of the objective function to 41%～74%.

A Low Power/Area Digital FIR Filter Design Based on PRF Framework

A novel DSP to ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) architecture design methodology is presented in this paper for reducing power/area consumption. Traditional methods always focus on optimizing hardware structure or algorithm separately. The authors propose a new method called PRF (Paralleling Reducing Folding) framework to combine hardware optimization with algorithm simplification. In the first step, paralleling, unfolding technology is applied to divide one data path into several channels and expose the redundancy of the algorithm. In the second step, reducing, decoupling theory is used to reduce computational complexity. In the last step, folding, time multiplexing method is used to merge similar components. As an exoteric methodology framework, many optimization methods can be integrated into the PRF framework. To optimize a 3N taps FIR (Fincte Impact Response) and obtain a content result, PRF methodology framework is applied.

Simplified Method of Designing FIR Filter with Controllable Center Frequency

A novel simplified method is presented to design FIR filter with controllable center frequency. The properties of transfer curves for all-phase filters are illustrated under 3 windowing conditions. By combining single-window all-phase filter design steps and double phase-shift combination, a series of design formulas for point-pass filter, notch filter, band-pass filter and band-stop filter are derived, thus the design computation complexity is greatly reduced. Experiments prove that the center frequency of all the filters can be accurately specified at arbitrary position by adjusting frequency parameters m and λ.

Digital FIR filter design for bio-signal processing system

Recently,real-time processing systems for bio-signal of the muscles generated by the movement of the user have been developed.Finite impulse response(FIR)filter for bio-signal processing in bio-signal process systems is composed of multiple multiplier and adder of high-area.This makes the chip area increase significantly.To solve this problem,a low-area digital FIR filter is proposed in this paper,which can reduce the chip area.

Efficient Single Event Upset-Tolerant FIR Filter Design Based on Residue Number for OBP Satellite Communication Systems

Cosmic radiation has several effects on the On-Board Processing(OBP)platform in satellite communications systems,and Single Event Upsets(SEUs)are one of its most important effects.In order to protect the Finite Impulse Response(FIR)filters against SEU,this paper proposes a novel Residue Number(RN)-based method.The proposed method applies the transpose form of the FIR filter to avoid the fault missing caused by SEU on shift registers.It also adjusts the input intelligently to avoid the fault missing caused by SEU on the filter coefficients.After all the fault missing events are avoided,the modulus can be minimised to achieve the minimum overhead.Theoretical analysis and simulation results show that the noise introduced by the input adjustment is negligible.Fault injection shows that the fault missing rate of the proposed method is zero.Finally,FPGA implementation shows that the overhead of the proposed method is approximately 75% of Triple Modular Redundancy,and is only 1%-2% higher than that of the traditional RN-based design.

A digital energy spectroscopy based on FIR filter

We designed a universal digital energy spectroscopy based on online digital signal processing. A prototype system was built and tested. Signals from radiation detectors were processed via a digital filter whose coefficients could be modified without changing the hardware. The paper introduces the hardware design of the digital energy spectroscopy system as well as the full set of software consisting of the selection of the coefficients of the finite impulse response (FIR) filter and the coding in the field-programmable gate array (FPGA). The system was tested with the high purity germanium (HPGe) detector. The results showed that this prototype can achieve an energy resolution close to that of a traditional multi-channel analyzer (MCA) with a much higher counting rate.