This paper presents an area-efficient fast Fourier transform (FFT) processor for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing systems based on multi-path delay commutator architecture. This paper proposes a data scheduling scheme to reduce the number of complex constant multipliers. The proposed mixed-radix multi-path delay commutator FFT processor can support 128-, 256-, and 512-point FFT sizes. The proposed processor was synthesized using the Samsung 65-nm CMOS standard cell library. The proposed processor with eight parallel data paths can achieve a high throughput rate of up to 2.64 GSample/s at 330 MHz.
Funding Agencies|MSIT(Ministry of Science and ICT), Korea, under the ITRC(Information Technology Research Center) support program [IITP-2018-2016-0-00309-002]; National Research Foundation of Korea [NRF-2016K2A9A2A12003787]; IDEC (IC Design Education Center)