Synthesis of signal processing algorithms with constraints on minimal parallelism and memory space

Abstract

This thesis develops signal-processing algorithms and implementation schemes under constraints of minimal parallelism and memory space, with the goal of improving energy efficiency of low-power computing hardware. We propose (i) a power/energy consumption model for clocked CMOS logic that supports selecting optimal parallelism, (ii) integer-friendly approximation methods for elementary functions that reduce lookup-table size via constrained piecewise-polynomial (quasi-spline) constructions with accuracy guarantees, (iii) provably conflict-free data placement and execution order for mixed-radix streaming FFT on multi-bank and single-port memories, including a self-sorting FFT variant, and (iv) a parallelism/memory analysis of the fast Schur algorithm for superfast Toeplitz system solving, motivated by echo-cancellation workloads. The results provide constructive theorems, schedules, and design trade-offs enabling efficient specialized accelerators.