Efficient sharpening CIC filter embedding fifth-order filter with coefficient optimisation algorithm.

This Letter presents an optimised cascaded integrator comb (CIC) filter sharpening algorithm embedding a fifth-order finite impulse response filter, which improves the worst-case alias rejection and simultaneously compensates the passband droop. The sharpening filter is designed without multipliers, which reduces hardware complexity. The results of a fourth-order CIC filter design practice show that the proposed algorithm improves the worst-case alias rejection to 128 dB, meanwhile the passband distortion is only 0.015 dB. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]