New Radix-2 to the 4th Power Pipeline FFT Processor

This paper proposes a new modified radix-2 4 FFT algorithm and an efficient pipeline FFT architecture based on this algorithm for OFDM systems. This pipeline FFT architecture has the same number of multipliers as that of the radix-2 2 algorithm. However, the multiplication complexity could be reduced by more than 30% by replacing one half of the programmable multipliers by the newly proposed CSD constant multipliers. From the synthesis simulations of a standard 0.35μm CMOS SAMSUNG process, a proposed CSD constant complex multiplier achieved more than 60% area efficiency when compared to the conventional programmable complex multiplier. This promoted efficiency could be used to the design of a long length FFT processor in wireless OFDM applications, which needs more power and area efficiency.