A 2048-point Split-Radix Fast Fourier Transform Computed using Radix-4 Butterfly Units

Abstract

For the low-power consumption of fast fourier transform, Split-radix fast Fourier transforms are widely used. SRFFT uses less number of mathematical calculations amongst the different FFT algorithms. Split-radix FFT has the same signal flow graph that of conventional radix-2/4 FFT’s. Therefore, the address generation method is same for SRFFT as of radix-2. A low power SRFFT architecture with modified butterfly units is presented over here. Here, it is shown that the, a 2048-point SRFFT is computed using radix-4 butterfly unist. Dynamic power is saved, on compromising the use of extra hardware. Here, the architecture size is increased from radix-2 to 4 and the dynamic power consumption is evaluated.