This book is the first in a set of forthcoming books focussed on state-of-the-art development in the VLSI Signal Processing area. It is a response to the tremendous research activities taking place in that field. These activities have been driven by two factors: the dramatic increase in demand for high speed signal processing, especially in consumer elec- tronics, and the evolving microelectronic technologies. The available technology has always been one of the main factors in determining al- gorithms, architectures, and design strategies to be followed. With every new technology, signal...

Over the past few years, the demand for high speed Digital Signal Proces- sing (DSP) has increased dramatically. New applications in real-time image processing, satellite communications, radar signal processing, pattern recogni- tion, and real-time signal detection and estimation require major improvements at several levels; algorithmic, architectural, and implementation. These perfor- mance requirements can be achieved by employing parallel processing at all levels. Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) technology supports and provides a good avenue for parallelism. Parallelism offers...