Research Article

Layout Aware Optimization of High Speed Fixed Coefficient FIR Filters for FPGAs

Figure 15

High level resource utilization in terms of # adders and registers for various filters using add and shift method (this paper) versus SPIRAL automatic software. SPIRAL shows a saving of 15% in number of adders and 81% in number of registers at the cost of 68% drop in performance.
697625.fig.0015