An efficient VLSI architecture for the computation of 1-D discrete wavelet transform

This paper presents a new architecture for VLSI implementation of the one dimensional Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). The architecture uses single filter for generation of both the DWT coefficients and scaling function for orthogonal wavelets as opposed to the conventional two filter approach. For multilevel decomposition, the fold back architecture principle, which interleaves the decimated scaling function back into the filter for subsequent levels, is applied. Limited use of memory in the design enables efficient implementation of the DWT computation in VLSI.