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1 Fixed-Point Design of Generalized Comb Filters: A Statistical Approach Massimiliano Laddomada, Member, IEEE Abstract— This paper is concerned with the problem of design- this property is the comb filter [2], [3], [9], which provides ing computationally efficient Generalized Comb Filters (GCF). an intrinsic anti-aliasing effect by placing its zeros in the 8 Basically, GCF filters are anti-aliasing filters that guarantee middle of each folding band, i.e., in the integer multiples of superior performance in terms of selectivity and quantization 0 noise rejection compared to classical comb filters, when used as the digital frequency 1/D (D is the decimation factor). The 0 transfer function of a N -th-order comb filter is defined as [2]: decimation filters in multistage architectures. c 2 Upon employing a partial polyphase (PP) architecture pro- N D −1 posed in a companion paper, we develop a sensitivity analysis in 1 1 − z−D c 1 −1 j 2π iNc D g order to investigate the effects of the coefficients’ quantization HC (z) =