APPLICATION OF A SYSTOLIC MACROCELL-BASED VLSI DESIGN STYLE TO THE DESIGN OF A SINGLE-CHIP HIGH-PERFORMANCE FIR FILTER

The paper deals with the application of a VLSI design style based on systolic macrocells in the realisation of a single-chip high-performance digital FIR filter. The systolic macrocell design style is well suited for the design of high-performance integrated circuits to be used in digital signal processing. The style uses as design primitives bit-level systolic macrocells designed according to logical and electrical rules that guarantee the required performance. The filter was designed with a 1.5-mu-m CMOS technology; it occupies an area of 3.74 x 3.42 mm2 and has 128 coefficients. The expected clock frequency is of about 100 MHz and allows a throughput of the order of 1 million samples per second. The technique applied to the design of the most critical part of the circuit (the clock generation and distribution network) is also described.