FIR II IP Core: User Guide

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Document Table of Contents
Document Table of Contents x
1. About the FIR II IP Core 2. FIR II IP Core Getting Started 3. FIR II IP Core Parameters 4. FIR II IP Core Functional Description 5. Document Revision History for the FIR II IP User Guide A. FIR II IP Core Document Archive
1. About the FIR II IP Core x
1.1. DSP Intel® FPGA IP Features 1.2. FIR II IP Core Features 1.3. FIR II IP Device Support 1.4. DSP Intel® FPGA IP Verification 1.5. FIR II IP Core Release Information 1.6. FIR II IP Core Performance and Resource Utilization
2. FIR II IP Core Getting Started x
2.1. Installing and Licensing Intel® FPGA IP Cores 2.2. IP Catalog and Parameter Editor 2.3. Specifying the IP Core Parameters and Options ( Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition) 2.4. Simulating Intel® FPGA IP Cores 2.5. Simulating the FIR II IP Core Testbench in MATLAB 2.6. DSP Builder for Intel® FPGAs Design Flow
2.1. Installing and Licensing Intel® FPGA IP Cores x
2.1.1. Intel® FPGA IP Evaluation Mode 2.1.2. FIR II IP Core Intel® FPGA IP Evaluation Mode Timeout Behavior
2.3. Specifying the IP Core Parameters and Options ( Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition) x
2.3.1. IP Core Generation Output ( Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition)
3. FIR II IP Core Parameters x
3.1. FIR II IP Core Filter Specification 3.2. FIR II IP Core Coefficient Settings 3.3. FIR II IP Core Coefficients 3.4. FIR II IP Core Input and Output Options 3.5. FIR II IP Core Implementation Options 3.6. FIR II IP Core Reconfigurability
3.3. FIR II IP Core Coefficients x
3.3.1. Loading Coefficients from a File
3.4. FIR II IP Core Input and Output Options x
3.4.1. Signed Fractional Binary 3.4.2. MSB and LSB Truncation, Saturation, and Rounding
3.5. FIR II IP Core Implementation Options x
3.5.1. Memory and Multiplier Trade-Offs
3.5.1. Memory and Multiplier Trade-Offs x
3.5.1.1. Using Memory Block Threshold 3.5.1.2. Using Dual-port RAM Threshold 3.5.1.3. Using Large RAM Threshold 3.5.1.4. Using Hard Multiplier Threshold
4. FIR II IP Core Functional Description x
4.1. FIR II IP Core Interpolation Filters 4.2. FIR Decimation Filters 4.3. FIR II IP Core Time-Division Multiplexing 4.4. FIR II IP Core Multichannel Operation 4.5. FIR II IP Core Multiple Coefficient Banks 4.6. FIR II IP Core Coefficient Reloading 4.7. Reconfigurable FIR Filters 4.8. FIR II IP Core Interfaces and Signals
4.4. FIR II IP Core Multichannel Operation x
4.4.1. Vectorized Inputs 4.4.2. Channelization 4.4.3. Channel Input and Output Format
4.4.3. Channel Input and Output Format x
4.4.3.1. Eight Channels on Three Wires 4.4.3.2. Four Channels on Four Wires 4.4.3.3. 15 Channels with 15 Valid Cycles and 17 Invalid Cycles 4.4.3.4. 22 Channels with 11 Valid Cycles and 9 Invalid Cycles 4.4.3.5. Super Sample Rate
4.8. FIR II IP Core Interfaces and Signals x
4.8.1. Avalon Streaming Interfaces in DSP Intel FPGA IP 4.8.2. FIR II IP Core Avalon-ST Interfaces 4.8.3. FIR II IP Core Signals
4.8.2. FIR II IP Core Avalon-ST Interfaces x
4.8.2.1. Avalon-ST Sink Interface 4.8.2.2. Avalon-ST Source Interface
4.8.2.1. Avalon-ST Sink Interface x
4.8.2.1.1. Single Channel on Single Wire 4.8.2.1.2. Multiple Channels on Single Wire 4.8.2.1.3. Multiple Channels on Multiple Wires
1. About the FIR II IP Core
2. FIR II IP Core Getting Started
3. FIR II IP Core Parameters
4. FIR II IP Core Functional Description
5. Document Revision History for the FIR II IP User Guide
A. FIR II IP Core Document Archive

4.3. FIR II IP Core Time-Division Multiplexing

The FIR II IP core optimizes hardware utilization by using time-division multiplexing (TDM). The TDM factor (or folding factor) is the ratio of the clock rate to the sample rate.

By clocking a FIR II IP core faster than the sample rate, you can reuse the same hardware. For example, by implementing a filter with a TDM factor of 2 and an internal clock multiplied by 2, you can halve the required hardware.

Figure 13. Time-Division Multiplexing to Save Hardware Resources

To achieve TDM, the IP core requires a serializer and deserializer before and after the reused hardware block to control the timing. The ratio of system clock frequency to sample rate determines the amount of resource saving except for a small amount of additional logic for the serializer and deserializer.

Table 17.  Estimated Resources Required for a 49-Tap Single Rate Symmetric FIR II IP core Filter
Clock Rate
(MHz) Sample Rate
(MSPS) Logic Multipliers Memory Bits TDM Factor
72 72 2230 25 0 1
144 72 1701 13 468 2
288 72 1145 7 504 4
72 36 1701 13 468 2

When the sample rate equals the clock rate, the filter is symmetric and you only need 25 multipliers. When you increase the clock rate to twice the sample rate, the number of multipliers drops to 13. When the clock rate is set to 4 times the sample rate, the number of multipliers drops to 7. If the clock rate stays the same while the new data sample rate is only 36 MSPS (million samples per second), the resource consumption is the same as twice the sample rate case.

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