Arithmetic complexity of the split-radix FFT algorithms

A radix-2/16 decimation-in-frequency (DIF) fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm and its higher radix version, namely radix-4/16 DIF FFT algorithm, are proposed by suitably mixing the radix-2, radix-4 and radix-16 index maps, and combing some of the twiddle factors. It is shown that the proposed algorithms and the existing radix-2/4 and radix-2/8 FFT algorithms require exactly the same number of arithmetic operations (multiplications+additions). Moreover, by using techniques similar to these, it can be shown that all the possible split-radix FFT algorithms of the type radix-2^r/2^rs for computing a 2^m-point DFT require exactly the same number of arithmetic operations.