“…The choice of N can significantly affect the number of operations of the NIT. Previously, the main concern of other authors has been to look for transform lengths of powers of two (Agarwal and Burrus 1974, Jullien and Miller 1980, Nagpal et al 1983, Rice 1979. However, if we use look-up tables stored in ROMs to implement the multiplication by an, where n = 1, 2, ..., N -1, the ROM size becomes too large for practical realisation in most cases.…”