• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.430-439
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• 2004

This paper describes a design of 8192/2048-point FFT/IFFT processor (CFFT8k2k), which performs multi-carrier modulation/demodulation in OFDM-based DVB-T receiver. Since a large size FFT requires a large buffer memory, two design techniques are considered to achieve memory-efficient implementation of 8192-point FFT/IFFT. A hybrid structure, which is composed of radix-4 single-path delay feedback (R4SDF) and radix-4 single-path delay commutator (R4SDC), reduces its memory by 20% compared to R4SDC structure. In addition, a memory reduction of about 24% is achieved by a novel two-step convergent block floating-point scaling. As a result, it requires only 57% of memory used in conventional design, reducing chip area and power consumption. The CFFT8k2k core is designed in Verilog-HDL, and has about 102,000 Bates, RAM of 292k bits, and ROM of 39k bits. Using gate-level netlist with SDF which is synthesized using a $0.25-{\um}m$ CMOS library, timing simulation show that it can safely operate with 50-MHz clock at 2.5-V supply, resulting that a 8192-point FFT/IFFT can be computed every 164-${\mu}\textrm{s}$. The functionality of the core is fully verified by FPGA implementation, and the average SQNR of 60-㏈ is achieved.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.08a
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• pp.257-261
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• 2008

The Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) system is a digital broadcasting standard designed for use in the LF, MF and HF bands of the broadcasting bands below 30 MHz. The system provides both superior audio quality and improved user services / operability compared with existing AM transmissions. In this paper, we propose a variable point Prime Factor FFT design method for Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) system. Proposed method processes a various size IFFT/FFT of Robustness Mode on DRM standard efficiently by composing Radix-Prime Factor FFT Processing Unit of form similar to Radix-4 by insertion of a variable Prime Factor Twiddle Factor and Garbage data. So, we improved limitation that cannot process 112/176/256/288 FFT of each mode of DRM system with a existent Radix Processor and increase memory size and memory access time for IFFT/FFT processing by software processing in case of implementation with a existent high speed DSP.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.270-276
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• 2010

In this paper, performance comparison of FFT algorithms for OFDM system is shown and advantage of proposed SRFFT is verified through implementation. For the single input and output structure in the most OFDM communication systems, adaptation of SRFFT might be inefficient. In this paper, improved SRFFT with pipeline structured FFT/IFFT of single input and output is developed and verified with Matlab, VHDL, synthesis tool and simulation tool.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.39 no.5
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• pp.65-73
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• 2002

In this paper, we propose and verify an implementation method for a single-chip 2048 complex point FFT/IFFT in terms of sequential data processing. For the sequential processing of 2048 complex data, buffers to store the input data are necessary. Therefore, DRAM-like pipelined commutator architecture is used as a buffer. The proposed structure brings about the 60% chip size reduction compared with conventional approach by using this design method. The 16-point FFT is a basic building block of the entire FFT chip, and the 2048-point FFT consists of the cascaded blocks with five stages of radix-4 and one stage of radix-2. Since each stage requires rounding of the resulting bits while maintaining the proper S/N ratio, the convergent block floating point (CBFP) algorithm is used for the effective internal bit rounding and their method contributed to a single chip design of digital audio broadcasting system.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.38-48
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• 2006

A synchronous multicarrier (MC) code-division multiple access (CDMA) system using inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) and fast Fourier transform (FFT) for the downlink mobile communication system operating in a frequency selective Rayleigh fading channel is analyzed. Both carrier frequency offset and timing offset are considered in the analysis. Bit error rate performance of the system with both equal gain combining and maximum ratio combining are obtained. The performance is compared to that of the conventional system using correlation receiver. It is shown that when subcarrier number is large, the system using IFFT/FFT has nearly the same performance as the conventional one, while when the sub carrier number is small, the system using IFFT/FFT will suffer slightly worse performance in the presence of carrier frequency offset.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.659-662
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• 2005

A parameterized FFT/IFFT core generator (PFFT_CoreGen) is designed, which can be used as an essential IP (Intellectual Property) in various OFDM modem designs. The PFFT_CoreGen generates Verilog-HDL models of FFT cores in the range of 64 ${\sim}$ 2048-point. To optimize the performance of the generated FFT cores, the PFFT_CoreGen can select the word-length of input data, internal data and twiddle factors in the range of 8-b ${\sim}$ 24-b. Some design techniques for low-power design are considered from algorithm level to circuit level.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.06b
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• pp.113-116
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• 2002

This paper describes a design of 8192-Point pipelined FFT/IFFT processor (PFFTSk) core for DVB-T and DMT-based VBSL modems. A novel two-step convergent block floating -point (75_CBFP) scaling method is proposed to improve the signal- to-quantization-noise ratio (SeNR) of FFT/IFFT results. Our approach reduces about 80% of memory when compared with conventional CBFP methods. The PFFTSk core, which is designed in VHDL and synthesized using 0.25-${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ CMOS library, has about 76,300 gates, 390k bits RAM, and Twiddle factor ROM of 39k bits. Simulation results show that it can safely operate up to 50-MHz clock frequency at 2.5-V supply, resulting that a 8192-point FFT/IFFT can be computed every 164-$mutextrm{s}$. The SQNR of about 60-dB is achieved.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.476-478
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• 2007

This paper presents an efficient data acquisition scheme to obtain a minimum CPU memory, optimized communication speed, and simplified program source code in a monitoring system. It is different in the number of utilized data from the conventional method which acquires every raw data. The proposed method uses only restrictive data required to reconstruct the original signal. The basic principle is to apply the FFT-IFFT method in data transferring process. To verify the high-performance of the proposed scheme, computer-aided simulation and experiments using a PV power monitoring system are carried out. It also presents the analyzed results the relationship between FFT's order and Gibb's Phenomenon.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.243-248
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• 2011

A FFT/IFFT processor is the key component for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems based IEEE 802.11n wireless local area network (WLAN). There exists many radix algorithms according to the structure of butterfly as FFT sub-module, each has the pros and cons on hardware complexity. Here, mixed radix algorithms for 64 and 128 FFT/IFFT processors are proposed, which reduce hardware complexity by using mixture of radix-23 and radix-4 algorithms. The proposed algorithm finish calculation within 3.2${\mu}s$ in order to meet IEEE 802.11n standard requirements and it has less hardware complexity compared with conventional algorithms.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.85-91
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• 2020

Recently, a multi-mode radar system was designed for efficient operation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in various environments, which has the advantage of being able to integrate and utilize methods of the pulse Doppler (PD) radar and the frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar. For the range detection part of the multi-mode radar signal processor (RSP), the hardware structure using the FFT processor and the IFFT processor is required to be designed in a way that improves efficiency on the area side. In addition, given the radar application environment that requires a variety of distance resolutions, FFT processors need to support variable-length operations. In this paper, the FFT processor and IFFT processor in multi-mode RSP range estimation are designed and proposed as hardware for a single FFT processor that supports variable length operation of 16-1024 points. The proposed FFT processor designed in hardware description language (HDL) and can be implemented with 7,452 logic elements and 5,116 registers.