Noise reduction for low-power broadband filtering

Supply voltage overscaling (VOS) has been studied recently for the design of low power finite impulse response (FIR) filters, where estimation-based noise reduction schemes are used for reducing the computational noise. When broadband filters are concerned, which are widely used in the scenario of high speed communication such as frequency-division multiplexed (FDM) systems, existing noise reduction schemes fail due to the relatively low dependency among broadband filter output samples. In this paper, a novel noise reduction scheme is proposed for broadband filters, which is the first implementation-independent scheme that can effectively reduce the noise due to both voltage overscaling and environmental fluctuations. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme achieves 7-27 dB performance gain while achieving 10.33%-51.74% power saving.