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Discussion

We have presented two new closed forms for LIF and allpass delay filters applied to fractional delay filtering.

For LIFs, the Horner scheme leads to an efficient time varying modular implementation which may decrease significantly the computing cost relatively to the Farrow structure. Figures 2 and 3 show the modular implementation of tex2html_wrap_inline855 .

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Figure 2: Modular implementation of the fractional delay filter (see figures 3 and 4 for details of modules tex2html_wrap_inline713 ).

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Figure 3: Module structure for the Lagrange Interpolation implementation.

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Figure 4: Module structure for the continued fraction implementation.

It is also possible to deduce a modular implemention of a filter, the transfer function of which is given as a continued fraction expansion in tex2html_wrap_inline905 . On figures 2 and 4, we show a way of implementing a filter which transfer function is given by the following continued fraction:

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The fractional part, tex2html_wrap_inline907 (eq. 8), is obtained after performing the following substitutions:

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In our case, unfortunately this modular implementation involves loops which include tex2html_wrap_inline793 instead of tex2html_wrap_inline905 . From a computational point of view, these loops can not be samulated since the output and the input of tex2html_wrap_inline793 are to be inextricably linked together. Thus this modular approach seems to be usable only from a theoretical point of view.



Stephan Tassart
Wed May 21 17:49:28 MET DST 1997