HSP43881_883

The HSP43881_883 is a video speed Digital Filter (DF) designed to efficiently implement vector operations such as FIR digital filters. It is comprised of eight filter cells cascaded internally and a shift and add output stage, all in a single integrated circuit. Each filter cell contains a 8 x 8-bit multiplier, three decimation registers and a 26-bit accumulator. The output stage contains an additional 26-bit accumulator which can add the contents of any filter cell accumulator to the output stage accumulator shifted right by 8-bits. The HSP43881_883 has a maximum sample rate of 25.6MHz. The effective multiply accumulate (mac) rate is 204MHz.

The HSP43881_883 DF can be configured to process expanded coefficient and word sizes. Multiple DFs can be cascaded for larger filter lengths without degrading the sample rate or a single DF can process larger filter lengths at less than 25.6MHz with multiple passes. The architecture permits processing filter lengths of over 1000 taps with the guarantee of no overflows. In practice, most filter coefficients are less than 1.0, making even larger filter lengths possible. HSP43881_883 provides for 8-bit unsigned or two's complement arithmetic, independently selectable for coefficients and signal data.

Each DF filter cell contains three resampling or decimation registers which permit output sample rate reduction at rates of 1/2, 1/3 or 1/4 the input sample rate. HSP43881_883 also provide the capability to perform 2-D operations such as matrix multiplication and N x N spatial correlations/convolutions for image processing applications.