New area-time lower bounds for the multidimensional DFT

  • Authors:
  • Gianfranco Bilardi;Carlo Fantozzi

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Padova, Padova PD, Italy;University of Padova, Padova PD, Italy

  • Venue:
  • CATS 2011 Proceedings of the Seventeenth Computing on The Australasian Theory Symposium - Volume 119
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Area-time lower bounds are derived for the VLSI computation of the (n1 X n2 X... X nd)-point multidimensional DFT (MDDFT) over different types of rings and different types of input/output protocols. First, an AT2 = Ω ((N log |R|)2) bound is obtained for any finite ring R, where N = Πdk=1 nk, for any word-local protocol. The bound was previously known for the special case when R = ZM, the ring of integers modulo M. Second, an AT2 = Ω ((Nb)2) word-local bound is derived when R is the complex field, the components of the input are fixed-point numbers of b bits, and the precision of the output components guarantees that the resulting approximate transform is injective. No area-time lower bound was previously known for the DFT over the complex field. Third, an AT2 = Ω ((N log |R|)2) bound is derived when R = GF (pm) is a finite field of polynomials of degree m with coefficients in Zp, for certain classes of non word-local protocols. This is the first area-time lower bound derived for the DFT with I/O protocols that are not word-local.