Realization of Digital Filters Using Input-Scaled Floating-Point Arithmetic
Abstract
Fixed-point and floating-point realizations of digital filters are abundant in the literature of digital signal processing. A block-floating-point realization which has some advantages of both fixed-point and floating-point has been reported and compared to fixed-point and floating-point arithmetic with regard to roundoff noise effects. In this paper another alternative realization is proposed which uses input-scaled floating-point arithmetic. A mathematical model is first developed which has some characteristics of both fixed-point and floating-point realizations. Design considerations and theoretical analysis techniques which apply to an input-scaled floating-point realization are presented. A noise model comparison of input-scaled floating-point and block-floating-point realizations is made. Finally, an input-scaled floating-point realization is implemented with a minicomputer and experimental results are shown. It is concluded from the experimental implementation that an input-scaled floating-point structure is a feasible concept which can be implemented with the simplicity of a fixed-point realization, yet it exhibits some desirable characteristics of both fixed-point and floatingpoint realizations. Also, the implementation of an input-scaled floating-point realization should be simpler than that of block-floatingpoint because of the simpler scale factor of the former, and an input-scaled floating-point realization characteristically has fewer noise sources than a block-floating-point realization. Copyright © 1979 by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
Publication Title
IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
Recommended Citation
Heath, J., Nagle, H., & Shiva, S. (1979). Realization of Digital Filters Using Input-Scaled Floating-Point Arithmetic. IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 27 (5), 469-477. https://doi.org/10.1109/TASSP.1979.1163274
