Practical considerations in the implementation of a frequency-domain adaptive noise canceller

This paper is concerned with problems evolving around the implementation of a frequency-domain adaptive noise canceller on a fixed-point signal processor. In particular, we propose methods to improve the convergence speed and reduce the computational complexity of a constrained frequency-domain algorithm that uses a time-varying step size. In addition, we study the effects of finite word length and fixed-point arithmetic. Improvements are realized by adopting a new data reusing scheme and by applying running and pruned FFT´s. Results are given using synthetic data, as well as data from noise cancellation experiments