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An Economical Class of Droop-Compensated Generalized Comb Filters: Analysis and Design
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
  • Massimiliano Laddomada, University of Washington Tacoma
  • G. J. Dolecek
Publication Date
4-1-2010
Document Type
Article
Abstract

In this brief, we address the design of economical recursive generalized comb filters (GCFs) by proposing an efficient technique to quantize the multipliers in the z -transfer function employing power-of-2 (PO2) terms. GCFs are efficient anti-aliasing decimation filters with improved selectivity and quantization noise rejection performance around the so-called folding bands with respect to classical comb filters. The proposed quantization technique guarantees perfect pole-zero cancelation in the rational z-transfer function of the GCFs, thus totally avoiding instability problems. Moreover, we propose the use of a simple droop compensator for the sake of recovering the passband droop distorting the useful digital signal in the baseband. A design example is proposed with the aim of showing the application of the proposed technique, and a practical architecture of a sample third-order GCF is discussed.

DOI
10.1109/TCSII.2010.2043469
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pre-print, post-print
Citation Information
Massimiliano Laddomada and G. J. Dolecek. "An Economical Class of Droop-Compensated Generalized Comb Filters: Analysis and Design" IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs Vol. 57 Iss. 4 (2010) p. 275 - 279
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/massimiliano-laddomada/19/