In this paper we study digit-serial implementation of the general-order lossless discrete integrator/differentiator (LDI/LDD) allpass filter structure. In low-power filter implementation, digit-serialcomputation has been shown to be advantageous compared to bit-serial and parallel arithmetics. Thedigit-serial processing elements are obtained using unfolding techniques. The implementation is compared to a corresponding wave digital (WD) implementation. It is shown in an example that a WD realization requires about 60% and 30% more D flip-flops for pipelining and shimming delays, respectively, than the corresponding LDI/LDD implementation. We also study the sample period of the second-order LDI/LDD allpass filter using different digit sizes and conclude that when the filter is scheduled over a number of sample periods we achieve the shortest sample period

In this paper, we present a new digit-serial hybrid adder. The adder can be pipelined to the bit-level and is, therefore, well suited for high-speed applications. The main advantage of the proposed adder is that it can be implemented with few pipelining stages. We compare speed, area and power consumption for the proposed adder with a digit-serial carry-look-ahead adder and a digit-serial Ladner-Fisher adder. The results show that the delay of the digit-serial hybrid adder is lower than the other adders studied in this paper for digit-sizes up to d = 12. For these digit-sizes the digit-serial hybrid adder has on average 17% smaller critical path than the digit-serial carry-look-ahead adder and 21% smaller critical path than the digit-serial Ladner-Fisher adder.

In this work, we study how retiming can be used to reduce glitches in digit-serial recursive filters. It is a well known fact that glitches can make up a large portion of the dynamic power consumption in digital systems. Digit-serial recursive systems contain registers that can be retimed to reduce the amount of glitches. A second-order digit-serial LDI allpass filter has been implemented to verify this statement. It is shown that retiming can reduce the power consumption with about 20% for small digit-sizes without affecting the throughput of the filter. We also show that introducing a large number of registers in the filter structure will increase the current consumption. This trade-off, between reducing the amount of glitches and the increase in the number of registers, is also considered in this work.