Research Article

A New High-Performance Digital FM Modulator and Demodulator for Software-Defined Radio and Its FPGA Implementation

Table 7

Area utilization comparison with other FM demodulator implementations [5, 6].

Without optimization/no. of gateWith optimization/no. of gate
Proposed designExisting architectureProposed designExisting architecture

Phase detector: 389Phase detector: 422Phase detector: 413Phase detector: 616
Loop filter: 202Loop filter: 200Loop filter: 277Loop filter: 297
FIR filter: 3213FIR filter: 2367FIR filter: 3696FIR filter: 3511
DDS/NCO: 608DDS/NCO: 1534DDS/NCO: 828DDS/NCO: 1833
Total FM: 4844Total FM: 10545Total FM: 6052Total FM: 14314