Two-stage CIC-based decimator with improved characteristics

A simple two-stage multiplierless cascaded-integrator-comb (CIC)-based decimator is presented. The first stage is a cascaded CIC filter whereas the second stage is a cascaded CIC filter and a second-order multiplierless compensator. The proposed decimator can be realised without filtering at high input rate by making use of the polyphase decomposition of the comb filter in the first stage. The proposed filter exhibits high aliasing attenuation and a low passband droop. The design parameters are the decimation factors, M ₁ and M ₂, numbers of cascaded CIC filters L and K, and parameter b of the compensator.