Design of an efficient FPGA-based interference canceller structure using NLMS adaptive algorithm

Abstract

This paper presents fixed-point dedicated architecture of NLMS (Normalized Least Mean Square) adaptive filtering algorithm for the harmonics power line interference cancelling. The NLMS is the normalized version of the LMS algorithm, whose main characteristics are related to the increase of speed of adaptation, and low sensitivity to the power reference signal. The developed architecture was described in VHDL and synthesized to FPGA. Synthesis results indicate that the interference canceller based on NLMS filter is able to efficiently cancel the interferences in the fundamental frequency, and its high order harmonics, with faster convergence speed than the previously proposed prominent solution that uses the LMS adaptive filter.