Compact FPGA architectures for the two-band fast discrete Hartley transform

Abstract

The discrete Hartley transform is a real valued transform similar to the complex Fourier transform that finds numerous applications in a variety of fields including pattern recognition and signal and image processing. In this paper, we propose and study two compact and versatile hardware architectures for the computation of the 8-point, 16-point and 32-point Two-Band Fast Discrete Hartley Transform. These highly modular architectures have a symmetric and regular structure consisting of two blocks, a multiplication block and an addition/subtraction block. The first architecture utilizes 8 multipliers and 16 adders/subtractors, achieving a maximum clock frequency of 95 MHz. The second architecture utilizes only 4 multipliers and 8 adders/subtractors, achieving a maximum clock frequency of 100 MHz; however it requires additional multiplexers and more clock cycles (from 1 to 58 clock cycles depends on the points) for the computation. As a result, the proposed hardware architectures constitute an efficient choice for area-restricted applications such as embedded or pervasive computing systems.