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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 1996
Filed:
Dec. 21, 1994
David A Nelson, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Cirrus Logic, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
A high precision fast finite impulse response (FIR) filter which periodically samples an analog input signal and holds a sequentially-replaced number of the resulting discrete-time analog values in fixed storage cells while each value is being multiplied by a number of digital weights. The discrete-time analog values are not passed through delay devices and therefore do not degrade. The weights are stored in a memory or shift register and supplied to the multipliers in a repeating sequence. A predetermined number of the weights are set to zero to increase the setup time of the analog multipliers thereby increasing the precision without slowing the clocking frequency.