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Digital filter with decimated frequency response

US5696708A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 30, 1995
Grant dateDec 9, 1997
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Expiry dateMar 30, 2015

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH03H17/06
  • WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method for changing the frequency of a low-pass Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filter with a fixed frequency clock utilizes a decimation-by-coefficient technique. The decimation-by-coefficient method utilizes a single set of coefficients that are stored in a coefficient Read Only Memory (ROM) (64). Data is input to an elastic buffer (60) with multiplications performed by a multiplication circuit (62). To realize a low frequency filter, all coefficients are utilized in the multiplication operations with sequential multiplies. These are accumulated in register (70), this providing a high precision filter. To increase frequency by a factor of two--to decimate the coefficients by a factor of two, it is only necessary to utilize every other coefficient, such that only a single fixed clock (78) is required.

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