Auto-scaling Radix-4 FFT for TMS320C6000 DSP

Texas Instruments

Published Date: 03/09/2000

Description

Fixed-point digital signal processors (DSPs) have limited dynamic range to deal with digital data. This application report proposes a scheme to test and scale the result output from each Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) stage in order to fix the accumulation overflow. The radix-4 FFT algorithm is selected since it provides fewer stages than radix-2 algorithm. Thus the scaling operations are minimized