A new approach to finite wordlength coefficient fir digital filter design using the branch and bound technique

It has been shown that the branch and bound technique is effective for the design of finite wordlength optimal digital filters. This technique is however expensive in computing time. In this paper, we present a robust branch and bound branching strategy named Sequential and Progressive Search, improving the design of filters on a large wordlength processor in a reasonable computing cost. The details of the algorithm and many examples are given and compared to the other methods.