Architecture based performance evaluation of IIR digital filters for DSP Applications

A relatively recent innovation in the domain of digital filtering has been the introduction of signal processing applications with effective power utilization. No scope towards the effective and efficient architecture realization with existing part of literature, and hence investigation is made and is confined with cascade form of filter design. In this paper, architectures are realized based on common set of specifications to arrive at the high performance recursive filter for low power applications using Xilinx System Generator. Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) filters can be realized in many forms those are Direct form-I, Direct form-II, Cascade, parallel form. All these structures provide a space for selection of an appropriate architecture for reduction of power consumption and improvement in speed of digital filters. In this particular work, a 5th order low pass IIR filter is realized in Direct form-I, Direct form-II, Cascade form (Direct form-I/Direct form-II) as an example of the methodology in a Xilinx FPGA device. Also corresponding power analysis was performed and finally concluded that cascade (Direct form-I) realization is the best technique to implement higher order IIR filters when power is a main constraint, cascade (Direct form-II) technique is best with area and speed as constraints.