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3.3.1. Quad-Output FFT Engine
The FFT reads complex data samples x[k,m] from internal memory in parallel and reorders by switch (SW). Next, the radix-4 butterfly processor processes the ordered samples to form the complex outputs G[k,m]. Because of the inherent mathematics of the radix-4 DIF decomposition, only three complex multipliers perform the three non-trivial twiddle-factor multiplications on the outputs of the butterfly processor. To discern the maximum dynamic range of the samples, the block-floating point units (BFPU) evaluate the four outputs in parallel. The FFT discards the appropriate LSBs and rounds and reorders the complex values before writing them back to internal memory.