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Low-area Pipeline FFT Structure in OFDM System Using Common Sub-expression Sharing and CORDIC  

Choi, Dong-Kyu (College of Engineering, Sangmyung University)
Jang, Young-Beom (Graduate School, Sangmyung University)
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Abstract
An efficient pipeline MDC Radix-4 FFT structure is proposed in this paper. Every stages in pipeline FFT structure consists of delay' commutator and butterfly. Proposed butterflies in front and rear stages utilize CORDIC and Common Sub-expression Sharing(CSS) techniques, respectively. It is shown that proposed butterfly structure can reduce the number of adders through sharing common patterns of CSD type coefficients. The Verilog-HDL modeling and Synopsys logic synthesis results that the proposed structure show 48.2% cell area reduction in the complex multiplication part and 22.1% cell area reduction in overall 256-point FFT structure comparison with those of the conventional structures. Consequently, the proposed FFT structure can be efficiently used in various OFDM systems.
Keywords
OFDM; FFT; CORDIC; Common sub-expression sharing; twiddle factor;
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