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Altera_Forum
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11 years agoDC in the CIC-FIR filter result
Hi All, I have attached a figure showing my filter issue. Please subtract 28 MHz from the x axis values (it was a typo). It is apparent that there is a strong DC peak in the plot. My question i...
Altera_Forum
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11 years agoLooks like you have overlooked dc gain in your system. Most likely your cic filter.
In fact cic filter or fir or mixer must take care of dc. for cic dc gain = (R*M)^N (R = 64 in your case, M is comb stages, N = cascade stages). If dc gain is only due to cic then if (R*M)^N is power of 2 you can discard lsbs to get unity dc gain and so avoid designing division. For fir if sum of coeffs = 1 (normalised) then it is ok otherwise rescale them.