Efficient FPGA-based architecture of the overlap-add method for short-time fourier analysis/synthesis

Abstract

This paper proposes a simple and efficient FPGA-based architecture of the overlapping/ windowing and overlap-add methods for real-time FFT/IFFT-based signal processing algorithms. The analyzed signal is divided into short-time overlapping frames that are windowed before applying Fourier analysis/synthesis. Then, the original signal is reconstructed from the windowed (modified) frames using the overlap-add (OLA) technique. The proposed architecture was implemented on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) using a high-level programming tool in MATLAB/SIMULINK environment. Its performance was evaluated on artificial and actual signals using objective metrics.