Redundancy reduction for high-speed fir filter architectures based on carry-save adder trees

In this work we consider high-speed FIR filter architectures implemented using, possibly pipelined, carry-save adder trees for accumulating the partial products. In particular we focus on the mapping between partial products and full adders and propose a technique to reduce the number of carry-save adders based on the inherent redundancy of the partial products. The redundancy reduction is performed on the bit-level to also work for short wordlength data such as those obtained from sigma-delta modulators.