An FPGA-based implementation of variable fractional delay filter

Abstract

A variable fractional delay (VFD) filter is widely used in applications such as symbol timing recovery, arbitrary sampling rate conversion and echo cancellation. This paper presents an implementation of variable fractional delay filter on FPGA. The implementation utilizes an efficient structure so called Taylor structure. The main advantage of this structure is to reduce number of multiplier and adder when compared with Farrow structure or modified Farrow structure. The result of implementation will be reported as throughput and area utilization.