Roundoff Noise in Fixed-Point Recursive Digital Filters.

Abstract

Digital filtering techniques are very appealing where complex signal processing is desired. A major problem with digital filters however is the effect of quantization errors due to finite precision arithmetic. This report is concerned with roundoff errors (due to truncation or rounding) occurring after each multiplication in linear shift-invariant fixed-point recursive digital filters. The accumulation of these errors appears as noise (error uncorrelated) or limit cycles(correlated errors) at the filter output thus limiting the dynamic range of the filter operating with a given wordlength. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA036230

Entities

People

  • Dale John Mayer

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Arithmetic
  • Bandpass Filters
  • Bandwidth
  • Cascade Structures
  • Digital Filters
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Filters
  • Frequency
  • Illinois
  • Low Noise
  • Narrowband
  • Noise
  • Noise Reduction
  • Signal Processing
  • Transfer Functions
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

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  • Approximation Theory.