An economical class of droop-compensated generalized comb filters: analysis and design

  • Authors:
  • G. Jovanovic Dolecek;Massimiliano Laddomada

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electronics, Institute INAOE, Puebla, Mexico;Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, Texarkana, TX

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
  • Year:
  • 2010

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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.