EDN

Polyphase filters reduce saturation

Digital signal processing is ubiquitous in modern electronic systems, from MP3 players to digital cameras to wireless handsets. One of the mainstays of a DSP designer’s tool box is the FIR ...
EDN

Collective Filter Evaluation of an FSD Filter-Based Resampling Algorithm

MarekBlok received an MSc degree in Information Systems fromTechnical University of Gdansk in 1994. Since then, he has beenwith the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informaticsat the ...
Design-Reuse

Optimizing Up/Down Conversion with FPGA Techniques

Digital upconverters (DUCs) and digital downconverters (DDCs) are important components of every modern wireless base station design. While many DUC and DDC designs are available, there is a clear call ...
Electronic Design

Slice And Dice Chunks Of Radio Spectrum

The path to real-time wideband channelization is camouflaged by different techniques. Among the competing approaches are Pipelined FFT, polyphase DFTs, multiple digital downconverters (DDCs), and both ...