Research Article

Multipath Pipelined Polyphase Structures for FIR Interpolation and Decimation in MIMO OFDM Systems

Table 1

Implementation details and comparison results.

Example FIR filter informationTraditional structureProposed structure Area/stream reduction (%)
StreamArea (mm2)Area/streamStreamArea (mm2)Area/stream

1 : 2 InterpolationRaised-cosine10.0260.02620.0390.019525%
2 : 1 Decimation 39 tap
𝐹 𝑐 = 0 . 5 𝜋
10.0310.03120.0490.024521%

1 : 3 InterpolationHamming10.0660.06630.110.036745%
3 : 1 Decimation 66 tap
𝐹 𝑐 = 0 . 3 3 𝜋
10.0930.09330.170.056739%

1 : 4 InterpolationEquiripple
96 tap
𝜔 𝑝 = 0 . 2 2 5 𝜋
10.0970.09740.170.042556%
4 : 1 Decimation 𝜔 𝑠 = 0 . 2 7 5 𝜋 10.140.1440.310.077545%
𝛿 1 = 𝛿 2 = 0 . 0 0 5