Guest Editorial: Advanced Techniques for Efficient Electronic System Design

Abstract

This special section in Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing on Electronic System Design (CSSP) contains five papers which present highly interesting state of the art methodologies and circuits relating to different important aspects of electronic system design including the multi-standard communication, digital watermarking, memory integrity detection and protection in embedded systems, information security in systems on chips (SoC), and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC). Channelization is an essential computation-intensive function for multi-standard communication. The paper entitled “A Low-Complexity Uniform and Non-uniform Digital Filter Bank Based on an Improved Coefficient Decimation Method for MultiStandard Communication Channelizers” by Ambede et al. provides an efficient lowcomplexity solution for this important function. In this paper, the authors present a novel filter bank (FB) design technique based on the combination of the conventional coefficient decimation method (CDM) and the recently proposed modified coefficient decimation method. It is shown that the proposed FB has superior stop band and transition band characteristics, and involves significantly lower complexity compared with the conventional CDM-based progressive decimation filter bank (PDFB). The proposed approach provides uniform as well as non-uniform subbands to be used