Design of VLSI implemented signal processing systems based on signal flow graph analyses

An efficient design approach based on signal flow graph (SFG) analyses is introduced. A common set of VLSI structures has been derived for homogeneous and shuffle-exchange SFGs and are shown to be applicable to a general set of signal processing algorithms. The feasibility of this SFG-oriented design approach is demonstrated by an efficient implementation of the convolutional encoder/decoder, which is a significant achievement for coding system design.<
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