An area efficient 1024-point low power radix-22 FFT processor with feed-forward multiple delay commutators

• Main Authors: Le Ba, Ngoc, Kim, Tony Tae-Hyoung
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering; Fast Fourier Transform; Single Delay Feedback
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/105819; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48771; http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TCSI.2018.2831007
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Radix-2k delay feed-back and radix-K delay commutator are the most well-known pipeline architecture for FFT design. This paper proposes a novel radix-22 multiple delay commutator architecture utilizing the advantages of the radix-22 algorithm, such as simple butterflies and less memory requirement. Therefore, it is more hardware efficient when implementing parallelism for higher throughput using multiple delay commutators or feed-forward data paths. Here, we propose an improved input scheduling algorithm based upon memory to eliminate energy required to shift data along the delay lines. A 1024-point FFT processor with two parallel data paths is implemented in 65-nm CMOS process technology. The FFT processor occupies an area of 3.6 mm2 , successfully operates in the supply voltage range from 0.4-1 V and the maximum clock frequency of 600 MHz. For low voltage, high performance applications, the processor is able to operate at 400 MHz and consumes 60.3 mW or 77.2 nJ/FFT generating 800 Msamples/s at 0.6 V supply.